A custom luxury estate just steps away from Lake Coeur d’Alene is on the market for $27 million, making it the most expensive home listed in Idaho and an indicator of the “entirely different type of wealth” coming into the area.

New jobless claims increased slightly in the state last week, according to the Washington state Employment Security Department.

All 23 of the nation's biggest banks are healthy enough to withstand a sudden economic catastrophe, the Federal Reserve said Thursday as it released the results from its latest “stress tests," giving the banks the green light to start paying out dividends to investors and buying back stock.

Stocks were higher in afternoon trading Thursday, helped by some modestly positive economic data as well as a continued belief that the U.S. economy is recovering from the pandemic and that inflation, while higher than usual, will not be a long-term problem.

Material used to produce solar panels in China will be barred from the U.S. market as part of a broader effort to halt commerce tied to the country's repressive campaign against Uyghurs and other minorities, the Biden administration said Thursday.

Eli Lilly is nearly ready to take another shot at getting approval for a possible Alzheimer's drug.

Microsoft has unveiled the next generation of its Windows software, called Windows 11, that has sleeker visual features and is more open to third-party apps.

The U.S. economy grew at a solid 6.4% rate in the first three months of the year, setting the stage for what economists believe may be the strongest year for the economy in about seven decades.

Google will delay by nearly two years the phase out of Chrome web browser technology that tracks users for ad purposes, saying that it needs more time to develop a replacement system.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits dropped last week, a sign that layoffs declined and the job market is improving.

Spokane County’s nonseasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 5% in May, suggesting jobs in some industries are returning to pre-pandemic levels.

After a year of plummeting passenger traffic, Spokane International Airport has received a big financial lift from recently passed federal pandemic-relief legislation. 

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a union that represents 1.4 million delivery workers, is setting its sights on Amazon.

Wall Street's big investment banks are sending a message to their employees this summer: Get back into the office and bring your vaccination card.

Warren Buffett resigned Wednesday as trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which says it will announce plans in July to answer questions raised about its leadership structure as it deals with the divorce of its two founders.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with California agriculture businesses in their challenge to a state regulation that gives unions access to farm property in order to organize workers. As a result of the ruling, California will have to modify or abandon the regulation put in place in 1975 after the efforts of labor leader Cesar Chavez.

When the average Spokane-area customer learns that a house's furnace needs to be replaced, he or she will probably  kick that decision down the road, even if the outside temperature is 10 degrees below zero.But that same customer facing a broken air conditioner in 90-degree heat won't hesitate a minute to get that unit fixed, said Nathan Norman, owner of Bill's Heating & AC, which is based in Post Falls.

When it was new, the window sticker price on a typical 2019 Toyota Tacoma SR double cab pickup was just under $29,000. Two years later, dealers are paying almost $1,000 more than that to buy the same vehicle, even though it's used.

Stocks rose on Wall Street Tuesday, nudging the S&P 500 toward its record high, as the head of the Federal Reserve said again that inflation looks to be only a temporary problem for the economy and markets.