Business

Preliminary plans have been submitted to Spokane County to build a four-building, 32-unit multi-housing project on a street that represents the border of Spokane and Spokane County.

Designed, at least partly, by renowned architect Kirtland Cutter, the Peyton Building is one of Spokane's oldest structures and sits on what had been known as downtown's "million-dollar corner."

SCIO TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Democratic President Joe Biden signed a pro-labor executive order in Michigan Friday, flexing his administrative powers in a bid to promote unions and worker benefits, while daring a successor to repeal the policy. The White House said the so-called "Good Jobs" order directs federal agencies to prioritize new labor standards, including voluntary union recognition, and ...

The labor market appears to be treading water, with employers’ desire to hire staying just ahead of the supply of workers looking for jobs.

Celebrity chef Chad White plans to close his flagship Spokane restaurant amid downtown safety concerns.

For months, Boeing’s leadership has claimed repeatedly that slowing the pace of jet production and renewing the focus on inspections will ensure production quality. As a potential strike by 33,000 machinists looms next week, that’s not the reality mechanics see inside Boeing’s widebody jet plant in Everett, Washington. Managers there are currently pushing partially assembled 777 jets through ...

Verizon Communications Inc. agreed to buy rival telecommunications operator Frontier Communications Parent Inc. for about $9.59 billion in cash as the New York phone giant looks for ways to improve its high-speed internet offer.

Tesla Inc. plans to launch the advanced driver assistance system that it calls Full Self Driving technology in China and Europe in the first quarter of next year, pending regulatory approvals.

The bold bet from the likes of Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. that the Federal Reserve will slash interest rates by a half-percentage-point this month faces its biggest test yet from Friday’s U.S. jobs report.

Police in China have detained five current and former employees of British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc for questioning about potential illegal activities, according to people familiar with the matter.

President Joe Biden will announce $7.3 billion in awards for more than a dozen rural electric cooperatives during a trip to Wisconsin on Thursday, as Democrats try to highlight efforts to combat inflation in a critical battleground state.

Patric Boone doesn’t think Boeing can change. 

Tim Myers was about to close on a home in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when the email he’d been expecting popped into his inbox. His mortgage loan officer sent wire instructions for his down payment, along with a request to send the money in the next few hours. Myers and his wife went to their Flagstar branch and wired $34,000 to a Bank of America account.

The average mortgage interest rate for a standard 30-year fixed mortgage last week was 6.38%, a decrease of 0.11 percentage points from the previous week’s 6.49%, according to Bankrate.

Shares of United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) were recently down 24% from their 52-week high, as the delivery company wrestled with higher labor costs and revenue headwinds. Second-quarter revenue was slightly down compared to the year-ago quarter, as more customers opted for lower-priced shipping services. However, UPS is still a profitable business that pays an attractive dividend, recently yielding 5.1%.