Fruci Financial Services Inc., a Spokane-based medical management and billing company with 86 employees, has been merged into Portland-based Anesthesiologists Associated Inc. (AAI) and has assumed the AAI name.Fruci Financial, which was founded

Jim Koch claims he has always worked in a very corporate world, but its hard to tell that from the markets he serves, which range from extreme sports and rock music to custom cars and trick bikes.The 34-year-old Spokane artist owns an Jim

The Coeur dAlene Tribe is considering asking Idaho voters to decide the fate of its casino operations via a statewide ballot initiative.That comes in the wake of the Idaho Senates defeat last week of a bill that would have ratified a new the

Two years ago on the eve of their annual meeting, officials at Spokane-based Potlatch Corp. believed the big forest-products company was positioned to begin reaping the rewards of a massive capital-improvement program, new corporate efficiencies, a

Spokane Rock Products Inc., the 2-year-old supplier of concrete and rock whose Portland-based parent moved to Spokane earlier this month, now is embarking on a significant expansion push, both in facilities and employment.The company is spending

Knife River Corp., a Bismark, N.D.-based construction materials conglomerate, says it plans to build two ready-mix concrete plants in the Spokane and Coeur dAlene areas that together will employ up to 50 people.The plants should open by July a

Some people call Gabriel J. Mendez a doctor of salsa.Actually, his doctorate is in Latin American history, but when he couldnt find a college-level teaching job within commuting distance of Spokane, he made salsa his business.He founded in

Rahco International Inc., the longtime Spokane industrial manufacturer, has landed two contracts to design and build mining and canal-building equipment worth a combined about $21 million. That work comes on the heels of delivering another about of

POST FALLSA Coeur dAlene-based partnership wants to leverage the draw of the soon-to-be-built Wal-Mart store here by embarking on two commercial developments near the stores site that would have a combined value of $24 million. Real estate a