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Weyerhaeuser to buy Longview Timber for $2.65 billion

NEW YORK -- Weyerhaeuser, a U.S. real-estate investment trust that owns timberland, agreed to buy Longview Timber for $2.65 billion including debt from affiliates of Brookfield Asset Management, in the third-largest forestry acquisition in North America.

Expectations grow for Washington's winter wheat crop

Washington's farmers are expected to see a larger winter wheat crop than officials had anticipated earlier this year.

Federal judge who called Microsoft a monopoly dies

Thomas Penfield Jackson, an outspoken federal judge who sent District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry to prison for smoking crack cocaine and declared Microsoft a monopoly that needed to be broken apart, died June 15 at his home in Compton, Md. He was 76. He had cancer, his wife, Pat Jackson, said.

Pacific Seafood lands new facilities after plant fire

Workers at a Pacific Seafood processing plant near Astoria are racing to finish modifications on a borrowed plant following a devastating fire last week.

Tips help drivers get the best deal when leasing

Understanding rules ensures you get what you pay for

Even with low interest rates that make buying a car more affordable, many consumers are leasing a new car or truck instead.

Wedding business is alive and well in Clark County

Sarah Kearney and Stephen Greenwood are typical of today's marrying couples, in Clark County and elsewhere.

Strictly Business: Tax policy behind widening wealth gap

Globalization. Technology. Globalization. Technology.

Microsoft bets stores can raise Windows profile

36 locations have failed to match Apple success

Walking into the Microsoft Store is a bit like picking up a Windows 8 device. Tablets, mobile, gaming and accessories are separated into dedicated "bays," each arranged to mirror the colorful tiles of the new Metro home screen that replaces the traditional desktop in the latest Windows operating system.

Study: Racial discrimination still prevalent for housing

Hispanics have made strides in their access to housing, but Asian and black homebuyers looking to purchase a home still are told about or shown far fewer homes than equally qualified white consumers, a new national study has determined.

Domino's to deliver new look, approach

'Pizza Theater' aims to entice customers into N.W. stores

TACOMA — J.C. Penney got it wrong, New Coke sank, and South Lake Union Transit didn't quite pass the brand-acronym test.

Chief financial officer exits Nautilus for Tillamook

Linda Pearce, chief financial officer for Nautilus Inc., the Vancouver-based manufacturer of fitness equipment, has resigned to become chief financial officer for Tillamook County Creamery Association, a large dairy cooperative in Tillamook, Ore.

Japanese union leader lends support to ILWU

He joins picket line at port, donates $10,000

Fusao Ohori, a Japanese union leader who'd flown from Tokyo to support locked-out union dockworkers in Vancouver and Portland, leaned in Friday to answer a reporter's questions when the gray van, its windows obscured, suddenly reappeared at the metal gate.

Microsoft Office debuts iPhone app

Android, iPad left out as firm aims to boost systems using Windows

NEW YORK — Even as a pared-down version of Microsoft's Office software package arrived on the iPhone, the company is holding out on extending that to the iPad and Android devices as it tries to boost sales of tablet computers running its own Windows system.

BofA gave $500 bonuses to foreclose on clients, lawsuit claims

NEW YORK -- Bank of America Corp., the second- biggest U.S. lender, rewarded staff with cash bonuses and gift cards for meeting quotas tied to sending distressed homeowners into foreclosure, former employees said in court documents.

Gov. Inslee signs estate tax fix into law

OLYMPIA -- A legislative fix to a court ruling on the estate tax was signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee early Friday morning, hours before the state was to start issuing millions of dollars in refunds.