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The concept is curious. Turn 347 International House of Pancakes locations nationwide into ghost kitchens that produce ballpark-themed fast food for delivery and pickup. Ballpark Bites outlets have sprung up seemingly overnight, 44 in California alone, second only to the 76 in Texas. Maybe that's how ghost kitchens roll.  

A juicy lawsuit is on tap in federal court, pitting Spokane’s own No-Li Brewhouse against Seattle’s Redhook Brewery over trademark issues in the ever-competitive craft beer business.

Hobby shops in Spokane are hosting events and promotions in celebration of Free Comic Book Day, which takes place annually on the first Saturday of May.

Teen clothing retailer rue21 has filed bankruptcy to close its stores and sell its brand, marking the third time the business has sought court protection and the latest sign of trouble for mall-based outlets.

Tesla’s abrupt decision to lay off its electric-vehicle charging team and reduce its investments in public charging is a blow to the U.S. network, which has long relied on Elon Musk to build the bulk of the country’s fast chargers.

It’s been more than 18 months since Apple Inc. last updated its iPad line, marking the longest gap in new models since Steve Jobs first unveiled the product in 2010. The drought finally ends on May 7.

Allen Media Group, the company owned by TV mogul Byron Allen, is set to undergo a significant round of layoffs that will affect all divisions of the business.

Plans have been sent to the city of Spokane to build 72-units of housing near the Copper River Apartments in west Spokane. The site, owned by Catholic Housing Services of Eastern Washington, is across the Spokane River from Doomsday Hill.

As homebuyers grapple with record prices this spring, mortgage rates have also crept up. On a 30-year fixed loan, the average rate was 7.39% as of May 1, according to Bankrate’s survey of large lenders, marking three straight months of 7% rates.

Amazon.com Inc. is betting big on cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., replacing other defensive tools with the company’s safeguards.

To cut greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes, the Biden administration issued guidelines this week that could shape U.S. farming for decades by offering corn growers tax credits to turn their crop into jet fuel.

Joe Field needed something to write about. “I came up with the idea for Free Comic Book Day when I was a columnist for an industry trade magazine,” says Field, who is the owner of the Flying Colors Comics and Other Cool Stuff store in Concord, California. “I was scratching for ideas when my deadline was looming, looked out the front window of my shop to see a long line of people and none of ...

As artificial intelligence continues to evolve at a rapid pace – which frightens some and excites others – enabling robots to approximate their human creators to increasingly greater degrees, Las Vegas is getting in on the game.

The average mortgage interest rate for a standard 30-year fixed mortgage last week was 7.35%, an increase of 0.05 percentage points from the previous week’s 7.30%.

“Revenge travel” has been a big theme the past couple of years as Americans have been raring to go here, there and everywhere after hunkering down during the COVID-19 pandemic.