The housing industry is tied in a knot. Sales are dropping, but prices remain high. First time buyers can’t gather the down payment, much less afford the monthly mortgage, because of 30-year rates that remain around 6.7%. Homeowners who locked in rates around 3% during the pandemic can’t afford to move, so they don’t list their homes, ...Read more

MLive Media Group will stop printing its eight Michigan newspapers in December, the publisher said in a story posted on its website Wednesday.

The final printed editions will be delivered Sunday, Dec. 6, MLive Community President John Hiner said in the story.

The eight publications will continue in digital formats, including MLive.com, the ...Read more

Alphabet Inc.’s Google doesn’t have to sell off its advertising exchange and instead must make its ad tech tools work with those operated by rivals, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, in a move that saves the tech giant from a second bid to force a breakup.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema issued her decision under seal accompanied by a ...Read more

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang called on Group of 20 nations to accelerate their adoption of artificial intelligence as a way to enhance growth, urging the world’s largest economies to expand data centers and other infrastructure to support the emerging technology.

“Every single country needs to build infrastructure so ...Read more

Uber Technologies Inc. is cutting about 3,300 roles, or 10% of its staff globally, in a massive restructuring aimed at reducing management layers and reallocating spending into its ride-sharing, delivery and robotaxi businesses.

Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi announced the changes in an email obtained by Bloomberg News, saying that ...Read more

U.S. sales for Ford Motor Co. fell 10.3% year-over-year in August, but higher-margin retail share was slightly up, despite the discontinuation of the Escape and Lincoln Corsair crossovers to retool for next-generation electric vehicles.

The decline of total sales to 170,681 vehicles for the month was driven by decreases in the daily rental and...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is expected to finalize dramatically relaxed fuel economy standards for consumer cars and trucks in the coming days, though questions and concerns loom over the new rules.

The rules, which analysts expect to mostly match a proposal from late 2025, would slash light-duty corporate average fuel economy (...Read more

Buying a laptop is anything but easy sometimes — it’s a classic example of too many choices.

Do you want a smaller, lighter machine? Or one that has a larger screen and better battery life? How about a laptop fast enough for occasional (or frequent) gaming?

Do you want a touch screen? How about an OLED display? Need 4K graphics?

How does ...Read more

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