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Safety regulators are requiring inspections of Boeing 787 planes following an issue with the engine anti-ice system, according to an airworthiness directive published Tuesday.

The project, costing more than $20 million, is part of a "kid's dream" for developer Nick Brumback. The work involved turning a non-operational parking garage powered by an elevator, built into the 1960s, into loft housing overlooking downtown and Edwidge Wolson Park. The apartments will be available in a building many Spokanites traveled to when receiving medical care or picking up prescriptions from 1964 onward.

Starbucks offered an eight-figure cash signing bonus and personal use of its corporate aircraft to its new CEO as part of its sizable compensation package to lure him away from Chipotle. He also won’t be forced to leave California..

KELLOGG, Idaho – More than four decades after it closed amid environmental disaster, the Bunker Hill Mine is on track to reopen next year in one of the country’s largest superfund sites, this time with a vision for more responsible mining and stewardship.

Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan is stepping down, about two weeks after the company reported another disappointing financial quarter.

Les Schwab Tire Centers is up for sale again, and the investment firm who owns the Bend-based company wants $7 billion for it, according to a new report from Reuters.

Starbucks Corp. is discussing a settlement with Elliott Investment Management that would give the activist investor representation on the board of the coffee shop chain, people familiar with the matter said.

BOISE, Idaho — Matt Wissel grows vegetables and melons on about 80 acres in Nampa, just as his father and grandfather did. He runs his family’s farm, Wissel Farms, with his wife, Benita. He’s watched as acre after acre of farmland has given way to houses. If residential developments and big-box stores keep taking over farmland in Canyon County, Wissel says, there won’t be much agriculture...

Ghost kitchens: logistics and marketing benefits

The Auto-Vue Drive-in Theatre has changed ownership after 50 years.

US aviation regulators proposed a directive to require maintenance record checks or inspections of some of Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliners after the planemaker reported a missed test on a part for the main landing gear.

Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud-computing service posted a slowdown in quarterly growth, testing the patience of investors anxious to see a payoff from huge investments in artificial intelligence products.

Boeing Co. appointed Kelly Ortberg as its next chief executive officer, entrusting a retired veteran of the aviation industry with one of the most complex turnaround challenges in corporate America.

Starbucks Corp.’s mobile ordering via its app appeared to be down on Tuesday morning. About 1,400 users reported issues around 9 a.m. in New York, according to Downdetector. Attempts at mobile ordering by users in Chicago, New York and Atlanta showed a “system error” around that time.

At the 2024 Farnborough Air Show south of London last week, the talk was of fundamental challenges to aviation: labor shortages, parts bottlenecks, jet delivery delays and the slow pace of efforts to decarbonize air travel.

Amid high demand for romance novels, specialized bookstores are popping up across the U.S. – one of the most recent of which is It's a Love Story in Hayden, Idaho.

When a project north of Spokane Falls near the Spokane Arena was first pitched in 2017, it was supposed be two 13-story mixed-use buildings. Then a couple years later, plans were expanded to add a third, taller tower.