Business

Capital One is laying off another 1,139 employees at the former Discover headquarters in Riverwoods, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, a second wave of downsizing following the credit card giants’ megamerger last year.

Anthropic PBC’s clash with the Pentagon is drawing fresh attention to a lightly regulated practice: the U.S. government’s purchase of commercially available information, such as browsing histories and location data, and the growing use of artificial intelligence to analyze it at scale.

U.S. homebuyers had to act fast last week to nab the first sub-6% mortgage rates in more than three years. Now they’re up, and the new conflict in the Middle East threatens to nudge them higher.

The Trump administration’s overhaul of the U.S. visa system for highly skilled immigrants is about to get its first major test. The annual lottery for H-1Bs, the most popular visa for white-collar professionals looking to build a career in the U.S., gets underway with new rules this month. For the first time, successful sponsors for immigrants arriving from another country will need to pay a ...

Oil prices rallied Thursday on growing disruption to global oil supplies caused by the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, with U.S. futures prices rising faster than the international benchmark Brent futures as Washington said it may take action in the futures market to combat rising energy prices.

One of the few Spokane-area businesses that actually takes raw materials and molds them into useful parts for other industries has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after suffering a series of setbacks, including one from an employee who was charged with syphoning more than $1 million into her own bank accounts.

Starbucks has tapped Tennessee as the home of a new corporate operations office. The Seattle-based coffee giant decided to expand into the Southern state’s Davidson County later this year, according to a Tuesday news release by Starbucks and the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. Starbucks’ global headquarters is currently located in Seattle’s Sodo neighborhood. ...

Apple Inc. rolled out the $599 MacBook Neo in its biggest push yet into low-end laptops, aiming to challenge Windows PCs and Chromebooks for budget-minded shoppers.

During your home search, you've likely seen listings that mention an "HOA" — or Home Owners Association. But besides the fact that it comes with a mandatory fee, most people don't know what it means to live in a place that requires you to join one. This includes planned communities, condominiums and cooperatives.

Airlines around the globe are suspending more flights to additional destinations across the Middle East as the expanding war moves into its fifth day.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that President Donald Trump’s plan to increase a 10% universal tariff up to 15% will likely be done this week.

The Iran conflict has driven gas prices up, including a 20 cents-per-gallon spike at a downtown Spokane gas station.

General Motors is restructuring how its U.S. dealers sell used vehicles, a bid to compete better with fast-rising online sellers like Carvana. 

One of Spokane’s beloved news anchors is leaving for Boise, but not without a shiny new keepsake to bring with him.

Southwest Airlines' new boarding process may be just like all the other airlines now, but it's still taking the carrier and its customers some time to ​adjust.

Oil prices traded higher March 3 as the U.S.-Israel-Iran war widened, setting up steeper prices for some of the items American consumers depend on.

Wall Street's main indexes fell on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 hitting its lowest in over two months, as investors braced for the impact of a widening Middle East conflict on oil prices, inflation and global trade.

SAN JOSE — eBay has slashed 271 jobs in the Bay Area, primarily at the tech titan’s San Jose headquarters complex, the company reported. The eBay job cuts arrive on the heels of the net loss of 27,300 tech jobs in the Bay Area during 2025, according to Beacon Economics industry estimates that were derived from the state Employment Development Department’s official reports. The tech job cuts in ...