After two years of inconsistent revenue, Twin Cities real estate agent Bryan Clapper decided to promote himself on social media armed with only his wits, video production skills and snarky personality.

In January, he posted a now viral pitch that Canada annex Minnesota (“We’re the only state whose motto is in French!”). This spring, he ...Read more

Pennsylvania is one of two states where the typical newly constructed home costs more than twice as much as the typical existing home, according to LendingTree, an online lending marketplace.

Municipalities’ approaches to development and the cost and availability of land help explain why, said Andrew Kaye, who has spent almost four decades in...Read more

SEATTLE — In the face of stubborn inflation and higher costs from new tariffs, many businesses in Seattle and across Washington face a tough choice:

Eat those rising costs or pass them along.

At The Masonry, which offers wood-fired pizza and craft beer near Seattle Center, co-owner Sam Morin has been closely watching the “creeping” price...Read more

Nvidia Corp., the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, gave a tepid revenue forecast for the current period, fueling concerns that a massive run-up in artificial intelligence spending is slowing.

Sales will be roughly $54 billion in the fiscal third quarter, which runs through October, the company said in a statement Wednesday. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Transatlantic automaker Stellantis NV paid a combined $190.7 million in fines in March and April 2025 for federal fuel economy violations, according to U.S. Department of Transportation data.

The fines, assessed to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, date back to 2019 and 2020. That was before the company merged with automaker PSA Group ...Read more

If there were any doubts about SpaceX’s dominance in space, they were swept away after the company pulled off a near-flawless test of its massive Starship rocket late Tuesday.

After a string of failures, including a spectacular launchpad explosion in June, SpaceX hit all the highlights of its 10th test-launch of the rocket. Starship displayed...Read more

Even as bosses across the country report a jump in the number of people returning to the office, attendance in California remains less than half of what it used to be.

A recent survey shows that managers' push to get workers back in the office is bearing fruit, but executives would still like to see people at their desks more often. A different...Read more

After repeated delays, more than $30 million spent and little to show for it, a decadelong effort to upgrade the state’s antiquated workers' compensation system has been put on hold.

On Friday, WaTech, the state’s information technology oversight office, suspended “all project activities and expenditures” for the $292 million upgrade ...Read more

After six years of work, Boeing has flown the final in-storage 737 Max out of Moses Lake, Washington, marking the end of a grueling chapter in the company’s history.

Boeing began storing Max planes at Moses Lake, as well as other facilities in the region, in San Antonio and in Victorville, California, in 2019, after two fatal Max crashes led ...Read more

Nearly two dozen television shows will receive incentives for shooting in California — including two series that relocated from Texas and Canada — in the first award period since the state bolstered its film and TV tax credit program earlier this summer.

The 22 shows were chosen amid a massive amount of interest in the state's incentive ...Read more

Shortly after taking over Paramount, new Chief Executive David Ellison threw down the gauntlet — he wanted his studio to be the top destination for the most talented filmmakers and artists in the business.

It wasn't just words.

Already, Ellison has made a $7.7 billion deal for UFC media rights, closed two massive deals that will pay the ...Read more

OpenAI, the maker of popular chatbot ChatGPT, outlined how artificial intelligence is creating jobs and making Californians more productive as the tech company faced heightened safety concerns this week.

In a report released Wednesday, the San Francisco tech company said ChatGPT has 9 million weekly active users in California, more than in any ...Read more

Stellantis NV has pulled back plans to launch a Level 3 autonomous driving platform in its vehicles, saying there's a limited market for the technology.

The transatlantic carmaker in February said it had developed an in-house automated driving system called STLA AutoDrive 1.0 that would make driving in dense urban areas easier. Under that Level...Read more

To the untrained eye, the restored prairie lands of Illinois look exactly how you would imagine they looked hundreds of years ago. But many plant species are still missing, and recent efforts — including a newly launched database — aim to ensure that the prairies are restored much more comprehensively.

Jack Zinnen, a researcher with the ...Read more

In Moss Landing, California, more than 1,000 people were forced to evacuate in January when one of the largest storage facilities for lithium-ion batteries in the world caught fire. Days later, the toxic metals nickel, cobalt and manganese were found at nearby Elkhorn Slough in unusually high concentrations. One county supervisor called it a “...Read more

The U.S. Justice Department’s criminal division is digging into UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s prescription management services as well as how it reimburses its own doctors under an ongoing probe into the firm’s operations, according to people familiar with the matter.

The previously unreported areas of the probe show the scrutiny is broader ...Read more

REDMOND, Wasington — Activists protesting Microsoft’s work for the Israeli government breached one of the tech giant’s buildings at its headquarters Tuesday afternoon as part of ongoing demonstrations.

The security breach was first publicized at 1 p.m. by No Azure for Apartheid, a group of Microsoft workers and others opposed to the use ...Read more

The United Auto Workers' next test for its southern automotive organizing effort starts Tuesday as hundreds of workers at Ford Motor Co.'s joint-venture electric vehicle battery complex are expected to vote on whether to join the Detroit-based union.

A loss for the UAW at the BlueOval SK Battery Park in Glendale, Kentucky, would be stunning, ...Read more