Prime Minister Mark Carney has asked Canada’s provinces to end their bans on the retail sale of U.S. alcoholic beverages. It’s a necessary step to getting a trade deal with President Donald Trump across the finish line.

The response so far indicates he’s succeeding — but some provincial politicians, still angry at what they see as an ...Read more

A key measure of U.S. housing affordability worsened for the first time in almost three years, as higher borrowing costs soaked up a bigger chunk of earnings for new homebuyers.

Monthly payments on a median-priced $410,700 home accounted for 34% of a typical family’s income in the second quarter of this year, according to data published ...Read more

Starbucks is cutting hundreds of its corporate workers as part of a restructuring that began in May.

The Seattle-based coffee giant is laying off 224 workers across the company’s Seattle headquarters and remote positions, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification reviewed by The Seattle Times.

The layoffs include 120 ...Read more

Charter Communications wrapped up its $34.5 billion takeover of Cox Communications early Thursday, picking up millions of new internet and TV customers in Southern California.

By mid-September, customers of the Atlanta-based Cox will see their packages shift to Spectrum. But Charter is giving its new subscribers in Santa Barbara, Palos Verdes, ...Read more

American consumers haven’t given up. But they’re feeling the pressure.

Walmart Inc., which posted its weakest sales growth in more than six years on Thursday primarily due to its pharmacy business, said consumer spending remains at consistent levels even as customers make tradeoffs to prioritize value. Target Corp. and Home Depot Inc. also ...Read more

The newborn baby didn’t understand why he was sitting in the dark.

As power outages in Northwest Indiana dragged on for over a week, Alyssa Casalin said her two-month old boy grew increasingly restless. She struggled to see the baby when he cried at night, hoping her flashlight would turn on. Changing a diaper wasn’t easy. Neither was ...Read more

Ford Motor Co. has tapped a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration veteran for a new chief auto safety officer role, the Dearborn, Michigan, automaker confirmed to The Detroit News on Thursday.

David Hines steps into the position on Monday, reporting to Steve Croley, Ford's chief policy officer and general counsel. Based out of ...Read more

DENVER — For about 20 minutes Wednesday morning, I ceded control of my life to the absence of a person. Which is to say, I rode in my first Waymo.

I was among the first people in Denver — aside from the company’s employees — invited to climb into one of Waymo’s cornflower-blue autonomous vans for a jaunt from Alamo Placita Park to ...Read more

While some retailers directed federal tariff refunds toward price cuts to lure shoppers, Mooresville, North Carolina-based home improvement giant Lowe’s is taking a different path with its $80 million refund — using it as a financial cushion.

The federal government is issuing roughly $166 billion in refunds to businesses after the U.S. ...Read more

Chrysler is recalling about 74,578 vehicles in the United States because of an issue with their rear spoilers, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The recall affects certain 2021-23 Dodge Durango vehicles.

The rear spoiler, which is attached to the back of a vehicle to help manage airflow, may not be properly ...Read more

The San Francisco Bay Area, epicenter of the artificial intelligence boom, is home to a massive amount of tech workers employed by some of the world's most valuable companies, from Apple to Nvidia.

But for the first time, New York has eclipsed the Bay Area as the home of the largest "tech talent workforce," a report by real estate and ...Read more

A Seattle renter’s search is always a struggle — some alchemy of budget constraints, need for space and tolerance for the grueling process of scouring listings. For families with children, that search can be even harder.

Fewer than half of available rentals in the Seattle area have two or more bedrooms, the smallest share among major metro ...Read more

While customers perused Rings of Chain's table displays of abalone shell pendants, beaded earrings and brooches, owner Ha-huli-tud Tionna Marie Hawk greeted a Suquamish Tribal elder, Kippie Joe, approaching her business' canopy tents.

Being a vendor at annual festival Chief Seattle Days this month was a homecoming for Hawk, 22, who is Suquamish...Read more

Across Michigan, companies are citing artificial intelligence as a driver behind workforce reductions — from a Grand Rapids insurance and fintech giant cutting thousands of jobs to a broader wave of technology sector layoffs nationally that experts say is only partly about AI itself.

Some experts and economists say AI as it exists today can ...Read more

Some Los Angeles-area renters may feel a secret shame of not owning their homes, but maybe they should be bragging. Right now, renting is a much better deal.

People in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metropolitan area looking to get into a smaller home on average would save more than $2,000 a month by renting rather than buying, according to...Read more

When Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, he wanted it to become the world’s largest bookstore.

Now the company is reportedly buying books, slicing off their spines and scanning the pages for artificial intelligence training data before destroying the originals.

Amazon, which operates 19 facilities in Southern Nevada, scans and shreds ...Read more

The insurance company State Farm has begun sending checks to millions of policyholders as part of the company's largest-ever cash-back dividend.

Eligible auto insurance customers will receive an average of $100 from the company. Exact amounts depend on the state and the premium paid for each qualifying policy.

More than 7 million checks have ...Read more

For the 230,000 people living in rural Doña Ana County, Oracle Corp.’s Project Jupiter data center has quickly become an inescapable part of life. Mailers hailing “A NEW DAY FOR NEW MEXICO” have been sent to homes, touting its economic benefits. Oracle and its partners have donated money to sponsor organizations like the Boys & Girls Club...Read more

Target Corp. said Wednesday it received a nearly $1 billion tariff refund from the federal government.

It is among the first major Minnesota companies to report its refund following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down President Donald Trump’s most sweeping tariffs.

Trump’s tariffs, imposed at the start of his second term in ...Read more