A group of Indonesian farmers traveled 9,000 miles to find food for their chickens.

That’s how good Minnesota soybeans are.

“Our soybeans from the north are very clean, low disease, low foreign material and dry, and the quality of the protein may be better than the quality of the protein from higher-protein soybeans,” Seth Naeve, a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The electric vehicle and renewable energy industries are bracing for the end of tax credits they had been relying on to rapidly expand the technologies across the U.S.

The phaseout, brought on by the 2025 reconciliation law, hit the EV industry last week with the end of the federal $7,500 tax credit on those vehicles. The ...Read more

The California FAIR Plan, the state's home insurer of last resort, is seeking an average 35.8% rate hike, its largest in years, following billions of dollars of losses incurred in the January fire storms.

The Los Angeles-based insurance pool, operated and backed by the state's licensed home insurers, filed this week for the dwelling policy rate...Read more

Q: I have a 2013 Acadia that has a vibration with the steering wheel at 55 mph and stops at 65 mph. I had all wheels balanced, new brakes and rotors. When I rotated the tires to the back the vibration stopped. Do I just have a bad tire?

J.E., Chicago

A: Yes, one tire may have a belt separation issue. The symptoms will eventually get worse ...Read more

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has spent the past week in Virginia federal court seeking to persuade a judge that selling off its advertising exchange is too risky, technologically difficult and would disrupt the market.

Over the past five days, witnesses testifying on Google’s behalf said that a forced sale would upset a business worth $15.9 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is considering a modification to expensive automotive tariffs that would provide relief to manufacturers that complete final assembly in the United States, Reuters reported Friday.

Republican U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio told the outlet that the deal, which Trump would make a decision on soon, would ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed into law Senate Bill 237, which includes provisions that would approve as many as 2,000 new permits for oil wells a year in Kern County, California.

The law, which goes into effect in January, aims to prevent gasoline price spikes in the wake of anticipated oil refinery closures. Phillips 66 and Valero are ...Read more

This year, San Francisco Senator Scott Wiener passed a bill that will allow mid-rise housing to be built near transit stops, a win for the pro-housing lawmaker who’d seen two previous attempts collapse before even reaching the Senate floor, blocked by lawmakers concerned about state interference in local land-use decisions.

On multiple ...Read more

China is pushing the Trump administration to roll back national-security restrictions on Chinese deals in the U.S., dangling the prospect of a massive investment package as part of a proposal that would upend a decade of policy.

In addition, President Xi Jinping’s negotiators want the U.S. to lower tariffs on imported inputs used by any ...Read more

A coalition of business groups warned President Donald Trump that a newly announced $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications risks harming the U.S. economy and urged the administration to avoid changes to the skilled worker program that impose added burdens on companies.

In a letter sent Friday to Trump, roughly a dozen industry organizations ...Read more

The fire at the state’s second-largest oil refinery in El Segundo not only produced a giant fireball, but it’s expected to boost Southern California gas prices almost immediately — but by how much depends on how long the refinery might be out of operation.

The Thursday evening explosion at the Chevron refinery damaged a jet fuel ...Read more

With electric air taxi services on the horizon, operators are already flying in to secure landing sites in Los Angeles.

Traffic-dodging aerial hops across big cities could happen as soon as next year, pending approval by the Federal Aviation Administration, and one of the country's largest operators of airplane and helicopter landing sites is ...Read more

Deanna Meyerhoff, 55, moved to Seattle in 1993. Back then, the expansion of Starbucks was just so tremendous," she said.

Until recently, Meyerhoff would treat her daughter to pink drinks and stop for iced black tea lemonades while on walks with the family dog, she recalls. But those are memories now.

Her favorite Starbucks stores in her ...Read more

Joel Trejo’s American Dream may be in jeopardy.

At 15, Trejo emigrated from Mexico to the U.S. to work at a citrus nursery in Florida. After a few years as an employee, he decided to launch his own company, selling citrus trees grown out of his sprawling 80-acre backyard in Lake County, Florida, not only to his former employer but also to big...Read more

In listing after listing, Travis Hart kept seeing the same job requirement: Applicants should know how to use ChatGPT.

After losing his job at a small e-commerce company where the growing reliance on artificial intelligence concerned him, he was seeing the technology crop up throughout his employment search.

“It was scary going through all ...Read more

DETROIT — Automakers are bracing for a drop in electric vehicle demand after sales surged in the final days of the federal tax credit for plug-in vehicles.

The up-to-$7,500 tax credit expired on Tuesday, though companies like General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. said they found a workaround in an effort to extend the availability of taxpayer...Read more

As Mazda enters Grasso’s Garage for a slice review pie, they bring their long-time, consumer loving convertible to soak up the sun as this 3-season small but fun 2-seater is here to stay.

Powered by a 181 horsepower naturally aspirated 2.0-liter 4-cylinder, our 35th anniversary edition boasted a 6-speed manual transmission which was all the ...Read more

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Forester used to be vanilla in Subaru’s delicious store of off-road flavors. No more.

My white 2026 Forester Wilderness swaggered up to the foothills of the Cascade Mountains sporting a chocolate grille, syrup-black hood decal, bold lines, chiseled rocker panels and sinewy Yokohama Geolander all-terrain tires.

Forester...Read more

Just as federal enforcement against digital-asset companies has dropped precipitously, state authorities are voicing concern that their ability to prosecute crypto criminals will soon be vastly diminished.

Regulators from Alabama to Montana are warning that crypto market-structure legislation currently before Congress could diminish their ...Read more

Tesla electric vehicle sales jumped last quarter, as buyers rushed to take advantage of an expiring federal tax credit.

The company's EV sales rose 7% in the three months through September compared to a year earlier, mirroring a spike in overall EV sales across the country.

The $7,500 credit for new electric vehicles was eliminated on Sept. 30...Read more