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The Spokane Police Department apologized Tuesday for not notifying downtown businesses before the removal of 45 parking spaces underneath railroad viaducts last week.

Online marketplace eBay on Tuesday rejected a proposal by GameStop to combine the two companies in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $55 billion, calling it "neither credible nor attractive."

The summer travel season is fast approaching, and Fort Worth-based American Airlines says it will fly more customers than any previous one before.

Like much of the world, Donald “Dean” Zoellers learned of Spirit Airlines’ demise on the morning of May 2. He was hit hard, certainly more than travelers who loved the Broward-based carrier’s low prices or bright yellow planes. The 63-year-old grandfather of seven worked as a maintenance controller, managing airline maintenance technicians at Orlando International Airport.

The U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday it had reached a settlement with PayPal to resolve an investigation into a 2020 investment program that the department described as giving "unlawful" preferences to Black and minority-owned businesses.

When will we have another “Sleepless in Seattle”? Or the next “10 Things I Hate About You”? For years, local film buffs have yearned for Seattle’s golden age of cinema — the era in the late 20th century when the city was a backdrop for big-budget Hollywood productions that have since skipped Seattle in favor of filmmaking hubs like Vancouver, British Columbia, and Atlanta.

NEW YORK – Wall Street's main equity indexes dipped on Tuesday and the dollar rose as U.S. inflation climbed and oil gained for a third straight day as hopes faded for a Middle East peace deal to get ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz.

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Walt Disney Co. has picked up a vocal ally in its fight against the Federal Communications Commission: one of the panel’s three commissioners.

Netflix was sued on Monday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who accused the streaming company of spying on children and other consumers by collecting ​their data without consent, and designing its platform to be addictive.

Elon Musk, Apple's Tim Cook, GE Aerospace's Larry Culp and Boeing's Kelly Ortberg will join U.S. President Donald Trump on his visit to China this week, a White House official told Reuters. 

The Target store in Paramus, New Jersey, in a shopping mall next to a wax hair removal center and a Wetzel's Pretzels, has been transformed into one of the most pristine in the company's chain.

NEW YORK – U.S. equity indexes inched ahead to record closing highs while the dollar edged higher on Monday, as investors awaited a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

If you’re worried about a recession, perhaps due to global economic and political turmoil, you might want to focus your stock investing on companies that tend to stand up well no matter what the economy is doing. Garbage collection tends to be a relatively resilient business, so a fine candidate is the trash-hauling giant Waste Management (NYSE: WM), which has been rebranding itself as WM.

Homebuyers often focus on home prices and mortgage rates when thinking about affordability. But for millions of homeowners, another housing cost is creeping higher and quietly reshaping the math: homeowners association fees.

In the midst of a 12-county tour in which Rep. Michael Baumgartner, R-Spokane, made a mix of public appearances and private meetings with constituent groups, the congressman met Wednesday with two very different industry groups that each want different things from D.C.