Local business

People of color own about 8% of businesses in Spokane county despite making up about 16% of the population, according to the Spokane Trends community indicators website.

In a land of coffee shop giants like Starbucks and Dutch Bros, Gonzaga alum and Wake Up Call owner Christopher Arkoosh wanted to wake up the people of Spokane to what a locally run, people-first coffee shop looks like in action.

Fred Meyer is being sued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for alleged unlawful harassment of several female employees and a hostile work environment at its Richland store.

The Spokane Tribe Resort & Casino opened an addition Friday that included 175 rooms, a pool, fitness center and dining hall.

Costco Wholesale Corp. is boosting its membership fees for the first time since 2017, raising the charge for a basic membership to $65 a year from $60.

Plans are taking shape for part of the long-vacant lot where Kendall Yards meets the Monroe Street Bridge.

More homes have become available in Spokane and Coeur d'Alene, but the sales pace continues to remain muted compared the the craziness of the local economy as it emerged from the coronavirus pandemic.

After decades of immobility, the sign that has stood in front of the Garland Theater at the corner of Monroe and Garland is turning.

The complex three-way deal announced late Sunday night to split Spirit AeroSystems between Boeing and Airbus, returning to Boeing huge manufacturing facilities that it sold off two decades ago, was engineered by Spirit AeroSystems CEO Pat Shanahan.

Steve Ballmer passed Bill Gates on Monday to become the sixth-richest person in the world, the first time the former chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp. has been wealthier than the company’s co-founder.

Two decades after Boeing put its big aircraft subassembly plants in Wichita, Kansas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, up for sale and created what became Spirit AeroSystems, the company announced late Sunday it has reached an agreement to acquire those major units of Spirit and bring that work back in-house.

As Amazon celebrated the opening of a Kirkland, Washington, manufacturing facility for its broadband network Project Kuiper, the company pushed back its timeline for launching satellites.

Boeing Co. said it’s seeing a sharp drop in defects on 737 Max fuselages arriving from supplier Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. and an uptick in the pace at which the cashcow planes move through its factory south of Seattle.

Amazon.com Inc. has reached a $2 trillion market valuation for the first time ever as an artificial intelligence-fueled rally pushed the tech giant deeper into record territory.

Microsoft Corp. risks a hefty European Union fine after regulators accused the company of abusing its market power by bundling the Teams video-conferencing app to its other business software.

The families that lost loved ones in two fatal Boeing 737 Max plane crashes asked a U.S. district judge to appoint an independent monitor to track the company’s progress on improvements to its safety culture.

A Boeing Co. quality inspector alleged that the planemaker mishandled and lost track of hundreds of faulty parts, some of which he said may have been installed on new 737 Max planes, the latest revelation by a whistleblower pointing out possible misconduct at the manufacturer.

Representatives from some of the area's most impactful organizations discussed what is working and what isn't for downtown Spokane on Friday at the Spokane Convention Center.

Developers have begun preliminary traffic studies in Liberty Lake for a large retail box store, and adjoining gas station, that very much fits the size and look of a potential new Costco Wholesale location.