On a recent Friday afternoon, a handful of Spokane-based Umpqua Bank employees left the financial world to spend a few hours on a kids' playground. Trading desks and teller stations to stand behind lunch tables, they staffed a mobile food bank to serve

Long known as a precision sheet metal fabricator, Liberty Lake-based AccraFab Inc. has spent the last few years working to expand its services to include other industries, with a particular focus on aerospace. AccraFab manufactures parts to serve variou

Inland Northwest aerospace manufacturers and industry observers expect hiring within the sector to slow in the next few years. Doug Tweedy, Spokane-based regional economist for the Washington state Employment Security Department, says hiring in aerospace

Though Rathdrum-based Vertical Partners West LLC has become a major supplier of batteries and chargers to remote-controlled model hobbyists during the last 15 years, commercial sales driven by the surging drone market could overtake the hobby sales this y

After 27 years of operation, Northwest Trustee & Management Services, a Spokane-based professional trust and estate management firm, has transitioned from a sole proprietorship to a limited-liability corporation. Founder and President Stephen Trefts sa

Petit Chat Bakery, an 8-year-old business located near the Whitworth University campus, has expanded to include a wholesale operation through Petit Chat Corp., and has begun selling its bread products to area restaurants and retailers. Spokane native Ja

Walla Walla-based Banner Bank has expanded its operations here significantly since completing a merger with former Spokane-based AmericanWest Bank, says Kirk Quillin, Banner Bank's east region senior vice president. Since the merger with AmericanWest w