Local business

The Nordstrom family is joining forces with a Mexican retailer to take its namesake department store private in an all-cash transaction valued at about $6.25 billion, including debt.

Spokane coffee roaster Deborah Di Bernardo dreamed of a sustainable industry supported by organic beans, living wages and practices that enhanced the natural world rather than profits built off plundering it.

For the better part of the past century, Alaska Airlines has focused on ferrying travelers across a relatively narrow slice of the US. It’s now thinking much bigger.

Tukwila-based BECU announced Monday that it has awarded $15,000 to Spokane's Feast World Kitchen as part of annual effort to boost nonprofits in the state.

Boeing has laid off another 400 Washington workers in a second round of job cuts, according to a notice filed Monday with the state’s employment security department.

In November, Sen. Ted Cruz, who next month will become chair of the Senate committee overseeing aviation, told new Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg that if the plane-maker suffered just one more high-profile safety issue, “your company is in deep, deep trouble.”

Both downtown Spokane stores damaged by flooding resulting from an apartment fire in the Coeur d’Alene Plaza building Wednesday evening had reopened as of mid-day Friday.

Surrounded by his closest family, Tom "Tommy" Domini melted to tears Thursday night as he spoke of his half century of early mornings, customers and his beloved Spokane.

There’s still time.

Tucked between Boo Radley’s and Atticus Coffee & Gifts, oddity shop Petunia & Loomis’ new storefront will help shoppers find a bit of the macabre for the holidays.

A line wrapped around JCPenney before 5 a.m. Friday in a ritual that hearkened back to Black Fridays of yesteryear.

They’re hip, they’re lively and they’re terrorizing local malls.

The countdown to launch has begun for a small Washington state company developing something long dreamed of in the space industry.

After Jessica Poe, 41, separated from her husband in February, she found it hard to remain in Seattle.

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, Seattle’s largest employer has a lot on the line. Even though Amazon, like other retailers, is likely to face higher costs if Trump follows through on campaign promises to raise tariffs, the tech and e-commerce giant is still set to benefit from an administration billing itself as pro-business and antiregulation. 

Boeing has laid off 2,199 workers in Washington, according to a notice filed Monday with the state’s Employment Security Department.

Plans have been submitted to the city of Spokane to turn a Miller Paint location into a Boeing Employees Credit Union location on the South Hill.

Washington Trust Bank recently was named '2024 Best Bank to Work For' by American Banker magazine.

Southwest Airlines Co. expects the strike by Boeing Co. workers and a lengthy push to boost production to once again limit the number of aircraft it receives next year.