When it comes to improving efficiency and reducing emissions in transportation, often the answer is to take what’s old and replace it with something entirely new, such as buying an electric vehicle.

Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern and manufacturing giant Alstom are testing a different approach: retrofitting a pair of half-century-old ...Read more

Hooked to a super-fast charger, Kia’s all-new, all-electric EV9 can recapture an 80-percent charge in just 24 minutes. But what’s the rush?

You’ll be stretched out in the ultra-cushy three-row SUV, front seat reclined and power leg-rests deployed, while the Ergo Motion system performs a soothing massage. Might as well do the slow charger ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — With Anchorage streets mostly empty early on a November morning, dozens of workers at the new Amazon delivery station used tiny devices on their fingers to scan barcodes on packages. Details appeared on smartphones on their forearms, helping them organize the flood of shipments.

The daily Amazon Air cargo jet to Anchorage ...Read more

Lars Dennert paid $100,000 for a forest green Rivian R1S, an electric SUV he enjoys driving on family road trips to the beach, snow and desert.

This year, he raised his wager on Rivian’s future, spending at least $10,000 on Rivian stock, which has hardly been a winner.

“I’m hoping for another Tesla, that down the road [Rivian] will ...Read more

In a world where people convert shipping containers into homes, the idea seems to be emerging that bigger isn’t always better. The same thing could be said of SUVs. Consider the 2025 Mini Countryman. It’s smaller than a Toyota Corolla Cross or a Chevrolet Trax. Yet compared with Mini’s other models, it’s positively huge.

Offered in S ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of hospitality workers at a Las Vegas casino walked off the job Nov. 15, launching the first open-ended strike in more than two decades for Nevada's largest union.

The workers are members of the Culinary Workers Union as well as an affiliated bartenders union, which together represent some 60,000 workers in Las Vegas ...Read more

The CEO and co-founder of Chicago-based primary care provider VillageMD has resigned, a move that comes as Walgreens Boots Alliance considers selling its stake in the business.

VillageMD spokesperson Molly Lynch confirmed Wednesday that Tim Barry has stepped down as CEO and board chair and that the company’s board has appointed VillageMD ...Read more

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is asking a federal appeals court to throw out a ruling in an antitrust case brought by Fortnite-maker Epic Games that would force the search giant to overhaul its Play mobile app store.

Google said in a filing Wednesday that U.S. District Judge James Donato’s ruling is mistaken and asked that the outcome of the long...Read more

BlackRock Inc., Vanguard Group Inc. and State Street Corp. were sued by a group of states led by Texas for allegedly breaking antitrust law by boosting electricity prices through their investments, in the highest-profile lawsuit yet against the beleaguered ESG industry.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 10 other states claim the money ...Read more

Less than a week after California health officers confirmed a finding of bird flu virus in store-bought raw milk, state agriculture officials descended on Mark McAfee’s Raw Milk dairy “like never before” Wednesday and began collecting samples from the farm’s two herds, creamery, bulk milk tanks and trucks, according to the owner.

The ...Read more

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened an antitrust investigation of Microsoft Corp., drilling into everything from the company’s cloud computing and software licensing businesses to cybersecurity offerings and artificial intelligence products.

After more than a year of conducting informal interviews with competitors and business ...Read more

Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan had a simple plan after graduating from college: Write some software that could assist their dads with all the paperwork that comes with being a contractor.

Two decades later, that idea has morphed into a Glendale, California, company called ServiceTitan, which last year served some 8,000 plumbing, HVAC, ...Read more

Investors are calling foul over Warner Bros. Discovery's loss of its NBA media rights deal.

A lawsuit filed this week in New York federal court alleges that shareholders suffered "significant losses and damages" over the company's inability to hold onto its NBA contract, which prompted Warner Bros. Discovery to take a $9-billion write-down in ...Read more

Cryptocurrencies are enormously volatile, but that volatility can create opportunities for profit if you’re looking to trade these digital assets. Cryptos such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have risen a lot since their debut — but they’ve also experienced tremendous boom-bust cycles along the way. Experienced traders have been speculating on ...Read more

Shoppers waiting for the right deal to upgrade their laptop or smartphone will not want to wait past the holidays: New tariffs on products from China and other countries would mean higher prices at retailers like Best Buy next year.

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday vowed to raise tariffs on China another 10% and add 25% tariffs to goods ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump's latest promise to immediately place 25% tariffs on “ALL” imports from Canada and Mexico once he takes office would dramatically impact Michigan and the U.S. auto industry, which has built its business and supply chain around trilateral agreements for decades.

Longtime Michigan politicians and ...Read more

Federal officials on Tuesday said they will impose duties on imported Chinese golf carts they believe received unfair subsidies that undercut U.S. competitors, including two Georgia-based companies.

While a final judgment is not expected until June, the U.S. Department of Commerce said that, starting within a few weeks, penalties of 22% to 515%...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump said this week he would enact steep new tariffs on three key U.S. trade partners unless certain demands were met by each as part of Trump’s expected crackdowns on drugs and border crossings by undocumented immigrants.

Tariffs, a tax on imported goods, are typically costs that are passed along by businesses to ...Read more

Steep price hikes could be on the way if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to impose sweeping new tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China.

Trump threatened to implement the tariffs on the country’s top three trading partners on his first day back in office, including a 10% tariff on products coming from China...Read more