Rizzuto Foods Inc. no longer lives on pizza crust alone.The Spokane company, which started out manufacturing only precooked pizza crusts nearly 20 years ago, now produces an array of products for each segment of the pizza industry, says Tony CEO

Farmers, orchardists, and a spate of new businesses on Green Bluff, northeast of Spokane, are looking to capitalize on a growing agritourism trend in the U.S.For many years, Green Bluff growers have been engaged in such activity, defined as any

For college students looking to apply for federal financial aid, the process of securing a federal loan this school year will be faster and more streamlined, but despite big changes in how the U.S. government runs the program, impacts on students a

A Spokane nonprofit that provides microloans and other assistance to small and startup businesses says it's taking major steps to rekindle its efforts, including a quest to become an SBA lender, the hiring of a full-time loan officer, and a planned

Spokane-area bankers have widely varying opinions on the merits of the recently approved legislation to revamp the nation's financial regulatory system. One belief at least several of them share, though, is that the thousands of pages of coming new

Although its name might suggest otherwise, Linda Elkin wants Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank to become known as a community bank here. Recently promoted to Northeast Washington region president, Elkin oversees 21 U.S. Bank branches in Spokane and a