The Teamsters of California is calling for the suspension of Waymo's operations in the state amid growing safety and job security concerns.

The union, which has 250,000 members across dozens of industries, called on the California Public Utilities Commission on Monday to indefinitely suspend the driverless car company's license to operate. The ...Read more

Self-driving cars such as Waymos could soon roam the streets of Chicago under new legislation proposed in Springfield.

A bill filed last week would authorize autonomous vehicle pilot programs in a handful of Illinois counties, including Cook, before opening the door to statewide legalization of self-driving cars in three years.

The proposal ...Read more

Fifth Third Bancorp said Monday it has completed its merger with Comerica Inc., creating the nation’s ninth-largest bank.

In the fall, Cincinnati-based Fifth Third had agreed to acquire Detroit-founded Comerica in an all-stock deal valued at $10.9 billion. The merger creates a bank with about $294 billion in assets, officials said.

“We are...Read more

California quantum computing company D-Wave is moving its headquarters to Boca Raton, Florida, and opening a new research and development facility.

In an announcement last week, the Palo Alto company said its new office will be housed in the Boca Raton Innovation Campus before the end of this year. The 1.7-million-square-foot office facility, ...Read more

Washington state and King County recorded more evictions in 2025 than ever before — a sign that the affordability crisis is deepening.

The number of eviction cases filed in Washington courts rose to 23,965 in 2025, a 3% increase from 2024. The increase was significantly greater in the Seattle area.

Eviction cases grew by 12% to 8,732 in King...Read more

Amazon laid off 2,198 Seattle-area employees last week, according to a state regulatory filing.

The layoffs are part of the 16,000 jobs the company cut amid corporate restructuring. They also follow a round from October, which saw more than 2,300 Amazon employees in the Puget Sound region lose their jobs.

Of the almost 2,200 employees laid off...Read more

As the National Automobile Dealers Association prepares to meet this week in Las Vegas for its annual convention, dealers say moving online is critical for the industry to compete with digital-only vehicle marketplaces and combat the "sleazy" car salesperson trope.

The popularity of e-commerce has changed even purchases of vehicles worth tens ...Read more

Canadian Industry Minister Melanie Joly said the country’s aviation regulator is working toward certifying Gulfstream jets and that she believes the Trump administration’s complaints about delays can be resolved.

“It is our understanding that the certification process is well underway and that the certification demands were absolutely ...Read more

The Chicago Reader, the groundbreaking alternative weekly which has been on the brink of dissolution for years, will become a monthly in February under new owners, who are looking to reinvent the storied newspaper while turning red ink to black.

Noisy Creek, a startup publisher on a mission to restore alternative weeklies to their offbeat ...Read more

As the Writers Guild of America West prepares to negotiate a new contract with major studios, its staff union has authorized a strike of its own.

The labor group's staff union (WGSU), which includesattorneys, research analysts and other positions, claims that "management has dismissed [their] staff's needs and engaged in bad faith surface ...Read more

A future with flying cars is no longer science fiction — all you need to order your own is about $200,000 and some hope and patience.

The Palo Alto-based company Pivotal has been developing the technology since 2009 and is nearly ready to bring it to market. The company's founder Marcus Leng was the first to fly in its real-life version of a ...Read more

Tech workers in the Seattle area and beyond are reeling from Amazon mass layoffs that saw a record-high 30,000 axed globally in just three months.

On Wednesday, the company announced 16,000 job cuts across the organization. That's on top of layoffs in October that saw 14,000 cuts, including 2,300 across Seattle and Bellevue. The layoffs were ...Read more

Google and Pinterest have both disclosed plans to trim scores of tech jobs in the Bay Area in layoffs that are poised to jolt workers in three of the region’s cities.

The plans for employment reductions by the two high-profile companies arrive on the heels of a December upswing in Bay Area tech hiring that was primarily concentrated in the ...Read more

For 2026, the Honda Prelude returns for the first time in nearly 25 years, exhumed from the late 20th century, when coupes were coupes, buttons clicked, and the most advanced software in your car was the radio, which mercifully never needed an update.

Naturally, I approached the new 2026 Honda Prelude with suspicion. Because nostalgia is a warm...Read more

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida — At the Cadillac display here at Daytona International Speedway, racing fans mobbed the collection of battery and gas-powered cars. Rolex 24 attendees told The Detroit News they disagreed with government electric vehicle mandates and said the market should offer a choice of gas, electric, hybrid, etc.

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The Chrysler Pacifica Pinnacle PHEV brings all of the minivan magic to Grasso’s Garage this week.

Chrysler has put all of its energy into the Pacifica, a seven-passenger minivan, after the idea of going all electric seems to have been stopped in its tracks by policy changes from the White House.

Powered by a 3.6-liter V-6 plug-in hybrid ...Read more

Employment records of at least two Minneapolis-area businesses are being audited by the Department of Homeland Security, in what state and local officials describe as retaliation over the fallout from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

Hennepin Healthcare, which operates the state’s largest safety-net hospital, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Honda makes sensational hot hatches for gearheads with the ferocious, corner-carving Civic Type R at the front of the parade

The Honda Pilot is not that car.

The three-row SUV is Honda's band leader for a different hatchback parade: ergonomically brilliant hatchback for families. If the driver-centric Civic Type R is built for ...Read more

Amazon.com Inc. is in talks to invest as much as $50 billion in OpenAI and expand an agreement that involves selling computer power to the AI startup, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

OpenAI is also weighing a deal in which Amazon would use the startup’s artificial intelligence models, which power the popular ChatGPT ...Read more