Celebrating his 20th year as a small-business owner, Tom Arts' only regret is that he didn't start sooner

Michael Boswell remembers riding around in the family's service trucks with his father as a kid, and now his own 7-year-old rides with him

After losing her husband to cancer in 2004, Nancy Widner has made some savvy moves to grow the family business she never intended to run

After noticing on his excavation jobs that customers weren't maintaining their septic systems, Jason Turcotte decided he had a solid market for an add-on business in septic services

Customers don't always know what kind of systems they have, much less how to properly take care of them. That's where Ken's Septic Service comes in.

Stuck between being too small and too big, Schulteis Pumping of Slinger, Wisconsin, focuses on its niche of septic pumping and repairs

When treatment plants turned them away, North Dakota’s MonDak Portables worked with health department officials to land spread waste