March 21, 2020, 6:05am Business
The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted Clark County businesses in nearly every industry, but amid the chaos, one of the county’s biggest industries appears to be chugging along with minimal impacts, at least so far: Construction. Read story
March 21, 2020, 6:04am Business
With so much of the U.S. workforce — and their families — now cooped up at home to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, it’s not a huge surprise that home internet is showing the strain. Read story
March 21, 2020, 6:03am Business
LOS ANGELES -- Netflix said Friday it is establishing a $100 million relief fund for workers in the worldwide creative community affected by the coronavirus-caused halt of most film and television production. Read story
March 21, 2020, 6:01am Business
WASHINGTON -- U.S. home sales jumped in February to their highest level in 13 years, a trend that will almost certainly be reversed as people stop showing their property out of fear of infection in the coronavirus outbreak. Read story
March 20, 2020, 5:46pm Business
State unemployment offices in Washington and Oregon have been instructed by the federal government to stop releasing daily claim totals before the U.S. Department of Labor can issue its regularly scheduled weekly report. Read story
March 20, 2020, 4:11pm Business
Skamania Lodge has announced that it will close starting on Sunday and continuing through May 30, citing the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. Read story
March 20, 2020, 2:45pm Business
CHICAGO — A food tech company operating in the shadow of Chicago’s old Union Stockyards has developed a new kind of animal-free protein that it, and its big-name funders, believe can help feed the world’s growing population while fighting climate change. Read story
March 20, 2020, 1:20pm Business
Wall Street ended the week the same way it began: in full retreat from the coronavirus. Read story
March 20, 2020, 9:09am Business
WASHINGTON (AP) — The income tax filing date has been pushed back from April 15, to July 15, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said. Read story
March 20, 2020, 9:05am Business
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., is asking for an ethics review after coming under criticism for selling off as much as $1.7 million in stocks just before the market dropped in February amid coronavirus fears. Read story