Local business

By the end of the summer, West Railroad Alley won’t be so dark and empty.

Avista has entered into a memorandum of understanding with one "large load" customer, but details of the business – and if it's a data center – were not released.

The owner of a downtown Spokane salon has elected to close her doors permanently because of the proliferation of crime in the area.

The staff of The Spokesman-Review has garnered 10 accolades in the “large” division for the 2025 Society of Professional Journalists’ Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards.

Twigs Bistro and Martini Bar announced last week that the restaruant’s South Hill location will close after 20 years.

A Spokane Valley adventure park that had a loyal following of parents will close June 13.

As soft Brazilian jazz echoes through the Capy Hour Café, two baby capybaras climb atop folded legs to chew lettuce and kale out of hollowed coconut husks. Green saliva drools down the pair of river hogs’ jowls, as human customers sip lattes and giddily pat the rodents’ backs.

A former hospice care executive and a real estate developer have been appointed to Kootenai Health’s board.

Visit Spokane, while celebrating its 50-year-anniversary, announced this week that Spokane welcomed more than 10 million visitors in 2025 who generated an estimated $1.55 billion economic impact. 

Jessica Laughery spends her mornings like many mothers: getting her child ready for preschool.

Weekend camping trips on the water , hot dogs on the porch and large holiday discounts mark Memorial Day weekend.

The ownership of Spokane's professional soccer teams abruptly dissolved the Zephyr, the women's team, as it struggled to meet payment deadlines and attendance fell.

Spokane’s energy sector is looking toward the future.

For those of us in the routine of eating delicious, charbroiled hamburgers more often than we should, it looks like that tendency won’t change anytime soon after Habit Burger and Grill opened Wednesday in Coeur d’Alene .

The Spokane Police Department apologized Tuesday for not notifying downtown businesses before the removal of 45 parking spaces underneath railroad viaducts last week.

A big city with a small-town feel.

They may no longer be directly involved in the work, but these six former business leaders are still “icons” in the eyes of the Spokane Journal of Business.

Two different surveys this week came to virtually the same conclusion: some two-thirds of Spokane-area residents area are considering a move to another state.

Born out of a nation’s need for lightweight metal to create the aircraft it needed to wage war, Spokane Valley’s aluminum legacy was created when the U.S. government built the Trentwood Rolling Mill in 1942.