One of the hottest tickets for the events surrounding Super Bowl LX in February was a party thrown at the Cow Palace in San Francisco by Sports Illustrated, where attendees could hang with Justin Bieber, Kevin Hart and Travis Kelce.

The magazine's logo and a team of models from its latest annual swimsuit issue were present at another pre-game ...Read more

As the Bay Area job market kicked off 2026 with a surge of hiring, data shows 2025 produced a far more sturdy employment picture in the region and California than state labor officials first reported, according to revisions of initial estimates.

After first reporting that the region lost 20,000 jobs in 2025, the latest yearly revision from the ...Read more

Thousands of striking employees will return to work at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley on Tuesday after the company agreed to return to the negotiating table, union officials said Saturday.

The strike at one of the country’s largest meatpacking plants was set to enter its fourth week after 3,800 JBS workers walked off the job on March 16...Read more

MORTON, Washington — Countless logging trucks rumbled through timber country, their drivers headed toward Hampton Lumber's sawmill in Morton. Low-hanging clouds touched the tops of the rolling foothills, with patches of land bald from timber harvesting.

We take our logs and get every bit out of it that we possibly can. And we replant, and we ...Read more

Layoffs at tech companies are continuing at a blistering pace this year as the industry navigates emerging artificial intelligence trends and the ballooning costs associated with them.

The tech sector, which includes Seattle's Amazon and Redmond's Microsoft as well as thousands of smaller firms, announced more than 18,700 job cuts in March for ...Read more

Life Time is leaning into premium offerings and higher prices, a bet that’s paying off.

Founder and CEO Bahram Akradi said the fitness company continues to move away from a traditional gym model built on large numbers of infrequent users.

Instead, it is building what he calls “a social, athletic country club environment.”

Custom scent ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have reportedly reached a tentative four-year deal for a new contract.

Negotiations between the union and film and TV studios began in March, with union leaders prioritizing more robust healthcare benefits, streaming residuals and ...Read more

The prediction market operator that has been in a legal dispute with Nevada gaming regulators for more than a year on Friday was banned by a Carson City judge from writing contracts involving sports results with Nevada residents.

Carson City District Court Judge Jason Woodbury also is giving Kalshi until May 4 to implement geofencing and or ...Read more

Victims of the January 2025 wildfires unhappy with how insurers have handled their claims have filed lawsuits, protested and complained to local and state officials.

This week, they got support from an unexpected ally: President Trump.

"It was brought to my attention that the Insurance Companies, in particular, State Farm, have been absolutely...Read more

U.S. job growth rebounded in March and the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell, suggesting the labor market was stabilizing as the Iran war began.

Nonfarm payrolls rose 178,000 last month, the most since the end of 2024, after revisions showed a sharper decline in February, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data out Friday. That was ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As the office market bottoms out after a long fall, renters are swooping in to buy their own buildings.

Occupant businesses are seizing the opportunity to become owners, especially in downtown Los Angeles, where glittering high-rises have plummeted in value since occupancy dropped during the pandemic. It has never fully ...Read more

Since the end of February, the three major stock market indices — the Standard & Poor's 500, the Dow Jones industrials and the Nasdaq composite — have fallen by a few percentage points.

One might ask: That's all? Doesn't the market know there's a war on?

Yes, the stock market knows. It just doesn't care as much as you might think it should...Read more

PayPal, once the cutting-edge trailblazer of digital payments, is struggling to cash in on consumer clicks like it used to.

The San José, California, fintech giant is losing market share to competitors and had to swap out its leadership recently as its shares plunged, and it scrambled for a faster fix.

When online shoppers reach the checkout ...Read more

In 1976, a top-of-the-line Lincoln Continental Mark IV Cartier was priced at $15,000, or $88,000 translated to 2026 dollars. Elvis consumed them like popcorn, but for the rest of America, it was one the country’s most expensive automobiles. A half-century later, we have the 2026 Lincoln Aviator Black Label, a three-row Explorer-based crossover...Read more

Starbucks is extending its baristas the chance to earn $300 quarterly bonuses, on top of other changes meant to sweeten the retail employee experience.

The Seattle-based coffee giant debuted its new incentive rewards program for hourly coffeehouse employees Thursday morning.

The bonuses for baristas and shift supervisors will be based on ...Read more

Among the venerable establishments along the sun-splashed boulevards of Palm Beach, Florida — where money isn’t merely spent, it’s performed — there exist jewelers that deal not in diamonds and discreet old-family emeralds. Instead, they sell costume jewelry, blazing constellations of cubic zirconia that sparkle beneath the chandeliers...Read more

As a longstanding favorite among people-moving vehicles, the Toyota Sienna is no stranger to Grasso’s Garage. Its simple design, comfort and extraordinary space has set the industry standard in the minivan category.

In our week-long test of the Sienna XSE, we noticed some sporty new flair that is sure to attract even more customers. Our ...Read more

U.S. job growth rebounded in March and the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell, suggesting the labor market was stabilizing as the Iran war began.

Nonfarm payrolls rose 178,000 last month, the most since the end of 2024, after revisions showed a sharper decline in February, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data out Friday. That was ...Read more

NEW YORK — Off-road parks are gonna get crowded.

Hyundai stunned the New York Auto Show this week with its brawny Boulder SUV concept. It’s the first body-on-frame, truck-based SUV from the South Korean brand, going after Detroit icons Jeep Wrangler and Ford Bronco in the off-road space.

With General Motors Co. taking a pass on the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Culver City, a once-quiet corner of L.A. County people would pass through on their way somewhere else, has emerged as a destination of choice for some of the world’s best-known companies.

Apple, Amazon, TikTok, and Sony are just a few of the big names with a strong presence in the city of fewer than 40,000 residents, ...Read more