Chris Roth has worked in the Nevada skilled trades industry since his father pulled him out of high school at 15 years old in 1985.

In the moment, he felt alienated from his friends on the traditional high school path. Looking back, he recognizes that it changed his life for the better. Since then, he has worn many hats in the industry — ...Read more

Boeing will resume contract negotiations with its white-collar union next week, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace said Monday.

The two parties began negotiating July 1, and union members last month voted to reject the company’s previous contract offer. That offer had been endorsed by SPEEA’s negotiating team but...Read more

Nvidia Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire artificial intelligence startup Hugging Face in a transaction that may total about $14 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

An agreement by Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion may be reached as soon as this week, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, California — California lawmakers passed laws that would ensure insurance companies provide better coverage for smoke-damaged homes and financing for upgrades protecting residences from future fire damage.

The measures were among a slew of bills approved during the 2026 legislative session to deal with the continuing aftermath of...Read more

Help is on the way for California's film and TV postproduction workers.

A bill, known as AB 2319 and aimed at supporting the industry's editors, sound mixers, composers and visual effects artists, passed the Senate on Sunday, marking the state's first-ever stand-alone postproduction tax incentive. The bill — which cleared the Assembly by a ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, California — Long the epicenter of the global tech industry, California is taking more action to shield its children, communities and workers from the threats posed by the very industry that’s become central to the state’s identity and enviable economy.

State lawmakers on Monday passed new safeguards around social media, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — State lawmakers have approved a series of modest changes intended to bolster California’s film and TV tax credit program.

Among the key revisions, independent filmmakers would be exempted from the$5 million state corporate tax credit cap that was approved earlier this year as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s state budget.

Film ...Read more

U.S. job openings edged higher in July and layoffs fell, suggesting demand for workers remains stable at a subdued level.

Available positions rose to 7.27 million from a downwardly revised 7.18 million in June, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data out Tuesday. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for 7.31 ...Read more

United Wholesale Mortgage's recent deal with a distressed-company investment firm to secure a more than $2 billion lifeline could equip the mortgage lender with better financial tools, but it might also require spending cuts and stronger checks and balances.

UWM Holdings Corp. CEO and Chairman Mat Ishbia grew the small brokerage his father ...Read more

A fierce fight over transparency in the local real estate industry appears to have reached a truce.

The primary repository for home listings across Western Washington, the Northwest Multiple Listing Service, has settled with the brokerage Compass and loosened its stance on semiprivate home listings.

Compass touted the settlement Monday, saying...Read more

Exactly 130 years ago, Seattle welcomed the Miike Maru, a Japanese cargo steamship that established the first shipping lane between Tokyo and the U.S.

"Their first shipment was actually tea," Luke Larson, CEO and founder of Vale Concepts matcha company, said last week.

Since then, tea has secured its spot in the hearts of Washingtonians, ...Read more

A college endowment is supposed to last forever, supporting students, professors and research in perpetuity.

Instead, many cash-strapped schools are draining their nest eggs just to stay alive.

Faced with multi-million dollar deficits, Hiram College in rural Ohio borrowed from its $56 million endowment. The 1,000-student liberal arts school �...Read more

California lawmakers have approved a bill that seeks to throw a lifeline to the state's struggling journalism organizations.

Assembly Bill 2222, which would create refundable tax credits for California local news organizations based on the number of journalists they employ, joins a litany of bills on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk.

The state Senate ...Read more

The Trump administration has revived plans to end work authorization for certain spouses of H-1B visa holders, potentially forcing an unknown number of Bay Area residents from their jobs and making it harder for Silicon Valley companies to recruit and retain foreign workers.

The planned rule would reverse a 2015 policy allowing people on H-4 ...Read more

A new study looks at how much annual household income it takes to be considered middle-class in the most expensive cities in the U.S. Not surprisingly, Bay Area cities took up eight spots in the list of the 10 most expensive cities with a population over 100,000, compiled by MoneyLion, a mobile banking company.

The most affluent city on the ...Read more

President Trump on Monday urged Congress to approve federal tax incentives aimed at reviving American film and television productions, saying Hollywood has been hollowed out by productions moving to Canada and other countries.

In a social media post, Trump said he met with actor Jon Voight, whom he has designated as "Hollywood Ambassador," and ...Read more

Los Angeles County announced Monday that it had filed a lawsuit against State Farm General after hundreds of victims of last year's devastating wildfires complained that their claims had been delayed, denied or underpaid.

The lawsuit alleges that State Farm engaged in illegal and deceptive business practices that kept victims of the Palisades ...Read more

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has added California to the list of states suing Amazon, alleging that the online retail giant overcharged businesses using the platform to advertise their products.

The Federal Trade Commission is also part of the suit against Amazon. According to Bonta, the e-commerce giant has “secretly, systematically...Read more

United Steelworkers has agreed to a 30-day extension of the labor union’s contract with U.S. Steel Corp., as negotiations for a new agreement — the first since Nippon Steel’s acquisition of the Pittsburgh-based steelmaker — continue.

The union, which represents more than 10,000 workers under a master agreement across U.S. Steel ...Read more