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Amazon.com Inc.’s proposed $1.4 billion acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot Corp. is expected to be blocked by the European Union’s antitrust regulator over concerns that the deal will harm other robot vacuum makers.

In an area teeming with retail storefronts, there is still room for more.

Despite uneasy feelings about the economy, many working Americans are enjoying higher salaries.

A lawsuit by Washington state to block a proposed $25 billion merger between grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons is getting some qualified kudos from legal experts and lots (and lots) of love from Washington grocery shoppers.

The average mortgage interest rate for a standard 30-year fixed mortgage last week was 7.01%, a decrease of 0.05 percentage points from the previous week’s 7.06%.

E-commerce and financial technology ("fintech") are set to grow robustly in Latin America in the coming years.

After five days of inspections and 40 evaluations, Boeing's 737 Max 9 remains grounded — without a clear timeline to take off.

Costco is testing out membership card scanners at the entrance of select stores, including its hometown store in Issaquah, Washington, that the company hopes will improve member experiences.

The U.S. government unveiled a long-awaited regulation that could slash the biggest banks’ overdraft fee income by as much as $3.5 billion each year.

Spirit AeroSystems — Boeing's supplier that built the Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 that had a panel blow out mid-flight earlier this month — is stepping up its inspections, according to a note Spirit CEO Pat Shanahan sent to employees Tuesday. "There have been learnings from the airplane inspections to date and there will be more," Shanahan wrote. "One important takeaway is that we can take steps ...

The message came in at about 12:30 p.m. on Friday – the pipeline that provides natural gas for about 377,000 Avista customers across four states had lost a compressor station in Canada just as the region's temperatures began to plunge.

Real estate agents all over the country are reconsidering their relationship with a troubled national trade group — and that soul-searching appears to be especially strong in Washington. The state recorded a nearly 10% decline in members of the National Association of Realtors in December, the largest year-over-year drop of any state. NAR and its state affiliate, the Washington Realtors, blame ...

When temperatures plummet and residents hunker down in their homes, Spokane plumbers are the busiest people in town.

Within the last few decades, the South Perry District has grown into a destination for shoppers and diners from all over Spokane.

The long-running antitrust battle between Apple and Epic Games seemingly concluded Tuesday as the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear either party’s appeals in a case that addressed how (and how much) iPhone users pay for apps.

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked JetBlue Airways' effort to merge with low-cost rival Spirit Airlines, handing the Biden administration a significant victory in its effort to preserve competition in a key industry that critics say has grown too concentrated.

Stellantis NV has signed a "multi-billion euro agreement" with rental-car company Sixt SE that could buy up to 250,000 vehicles for its fleets in North America and Europe over the next three years.

Taylor Cohen’s financial habits had landed her in a heap of trouble, pushing her into bankruptcy in 2019. And so she tried something drastic, signing up for a 30-day savings challenge she learned about on Instagram in November 2022.