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Chicago’s minimum wage got its annual increase Monday, when it hit $16.20 for most workers across the city. Chicagoans familiar with the city’s minimum wage ordinance will notice two significant changes this year. First, the minimum wages for large and small businesses are now equal, not tiered. July 1 also marked the first step in the city’s plan to gradually phase out the tipped minimum wage ...

The US Supreme Court dealt a fresh blow to the authority of federal agencies, ruling in a case over debit-card swipe fees that some regulations can be challenged a decade or more after they were enacted.

Emily Franks and her husband were making enough money to get by but were still living paycheck to paycheck and struggling with debt.

Two decades after Boeing put its big aircraft subassembly plants in Wichita, Kansas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, up for sale and created what became Spirit AeroSystems, the company announced late Sunday it has reached an agreement to acquire those major units of Spirit and bring that work back in-house.

From stubborn inflation to rising interest rates, it’s exceptionally expensive to have a shaky personal financial situation in 2023 — but in today’s era, it costs a lot to be financially comfortable, too.

Universal Hydrogen, the pioneering company that flew a partially hydrogen-powered flight out of Moses Lake in March last year, has burned through the $100 million it raised from investors and gone bust.

As Amazon celebrated the opening of a Kirkland, Washington, manufacturing facility for its broadband network Project Kuiper, the company pushed back its timeline for launching satellites.

It's a good thing Jon Stewart is back on "The Daily Show" once a week because episodes of the program when he hosted for the first time around are suddenly much harder to find. This week, Comedy Central yanked hundreds of episodes of the late night show — along with other vintage programs like "The Colbert Report" dating back decades — from the network website.

Nike Inc. shares sank after the sneaker company’s full-year outlook missed expectations, stoking investor concerns about waning demand and competition from upstarts On and Hoka, as well as rival Adidas AG.

Microsoft Corp.’s $13 billion investment into OpenAI Inc. is set to come under added scrutiny from European Union’s antitrust watchdogs, who are poised to quiz rivals about the AI firm’s exclusive use of Microsoft’s cloud technology.

Hope is waning for owners of Fisker Inc.’s beleaguered electric SUVs. With the company mired in bankruptcy, customers say it’s becoming increasingly difficult to get any help fixing their glitchy or otherwise problematic cars. One Fisker owner in the Cincinnati area had a dozen unresolved service tickets for his model. Another in Colorado can’t find a local repair shop to fix a crack snaking ...

The roughly 100,000-square-foot Shopko building in Spokane’s South Hill has sat vacant since the retailer closed in 2019.

Walgreens will close a “significant portion” of its 8,600 U.S. locations over the next three years as it struggles to keep up with a rapidly evolving retail pharmacy industry, the company announced Thursday.

A permit was requested last week to remodel both the interior and exterior of the Courtyard by Marriott near the Spokane Convention Center. 

Boeing Co. said it’s seeing a sharp drop in defects on 737 Max fuselages arriving from supplier Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. and an uptick in the pace at which the cashcow planes move through its factory south of Seattle.

Cocoa headed for the longest run of losses in two years in New York as focus turns to favorable weather that could aid crops in crucial West African growers.

Attention around artificial intelligence has driven chipmaker Nvidia sharply higher in recent years, to the point where it briefly was the world’s most valuable company - but AI investors are targeting other stocks, too.

Auto leather scraps and seatbelt remnants aren’t trash to Jarret Schlaff. They are future wallets, bags and shoes.