July 6, 2020, 11:53am Business
FARGO, N.D. — A judge on Monday ordered the Dakota Access pipeline shut down for additional environmental review more than three years after it began pumping oil — handing a victory to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and delivering a blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to weaken public health and environmental protections it views as obstacles to businesses. Read story
July 6, 2020, 10:34am Business
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department on Monday released the names of more than 650,000 small businesses that received funds from a government program intended to support the economy as states shut down in April to contain the viral outbreak. Read story
July 6, 2020, 10:31am Business
STAMFORD, Conn. — Jonathan Sackler, one of the owners of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, has died, the company confirmed. Read story
July 6, 2020, 6:02am Business
Forty-five days into its Chapter 11 reorganization, J.C. Penney’s bankruptcy can still go in a few different directions. Read story
July 6, 2020, 6:02am Business
The four-year-old Amazon fulfillment center in Kent, Wash., has played an outsized role in the company’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Read story
July 6, 2020, 6:02am Business
There were several milestones in March that grabbed the attention of Americans to the fast developing threat from the novel coronavirus: local schools closing, California’s statewide stay-at-home order, and Disney closing the gates of its theme parks. Read story
July 5, 2020, 6:08am Business
Amazon is preparing to open its second automated-checkout grocery store on the Eastside and is hiring managers for a third store in the nation’s capitol. Read story
July 5, 2020, 6:05am Business
CHICAGO — Usually, by mid-year, employees have burned some paid time off on spring break trips or summer getaways. Read story
July 5, 2020, 6:02am Business
With three young children, Eric Sauerhoff was not looking to move across the Midwest during the pandemic. Read story