18+ hour, 58+ min ago   (296+ words) Companies have traditionally imported goods from Asia through Gulf countries, such as the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. Now, some are trying a more direct approach. “The latest tensions in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, as well as those…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (757+ words) But travel scams have become more sophisticated, and scammers using new artificial intelligence tools have become better at creating fake websites and using stolen data to their advantage, said Florent Silve, an executive at Engine, a corporate travel management platform....

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (76+ words) The Seattle Times Most Read Business Stories - Tacoma mayor calls second Fred Meyer closure in city a 'gut punch' - Before Amazon plane crash, pilot warned of 'excessive speed,' NTSB says - Amazon 767 didn't take usual steps to slow before Miami crash,…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (423+ words) Boeing continues to look toward the future, most recently by assigning a new vice president to help lead the “industrial blueprint” for Boeing’s next new commercial plane. Stephanie Pope, CEO of Boeing’s commercial airplanes division, announced three leadership changes Wednesday,…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1059+ words) One day after an Amazon cargo plane overran the runway at Miami International Airport, crashing into vehicles and killing at least five people, it’s too soon to know what went wrong. In the first news briefing since the fatal incident,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (736+ words) Many Seattle residents have kept the pandemic’s ultimate perk: trading the grueling I-5 crawl for a morning commute to the living room. The most recent census data, from 2024, shows that about one-quarter of the city’s employed residents now work from…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (563+ words) Record visitor spending across the region Visitor spending in Mecklenburg County, which includes Charlotte, reached $6.47 billion in 2025, up 1.5% from 2024 and the highest total of any county in North Carolina. The county accounted for more than 17% of all visitor spending statewide....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (394+ words) The U.S. carmaker is recalling about 2.98 million China-made and imported EVs including Model 3, Model Y, Model X and Model S over door handle safety risks, according to China’s State Administration for Market Regulation. The recall, the largest this year according to…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (397+ words) No act of Congress mandated the color, with its slight orange tint. Rather, a 1939 conference of transportation officials from all U.S. states (then 48) chose the shade for its visibility as one of the first safety standards. At their peak in the…...