WASHINGTON — The Ford Motor Co. employee who heckled President Donald Trump during a January visit to the company's Dearborn Truck Plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official confirmed Monday.

"TJ, we got your back," United Auto Workers Vice President Laura Dickerson said during a Washington, D.C., speech ...Read more

Stellantis NV on Friday sold its 49% stake in a Canadian battery plant for $100 after the automaker behind brands including Jeep and Dodge announced $26.5 billion in electric vehicle-related losses amid a major pivot back to gas-powered vehicles.

South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution now fully owns the Windsor, Ontario, battery plant ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — America's car dealers are coming to a stark realization: The new vehicles on their lots too often cost too much, and that could create trouble for their businesses in 2026.

As the economy enters a moment of uncertainty, attendees of the annual National Automobile Dealers Association convention in Las Vegas last week kept ...Read more

Wealthy individuals from California and Washington are flocking to the Las Vegas Valley to escape tax policies and politics from their home states, according to several area real estate agents.

It a “full-scale migration of wealth,” said Virtue Real Estate co-owner, broker and CEO Darin Marques, who just opened a brokerage in Henderson.

He...Read more

California's ticketing industry could be undergoing some major changes.

On Thursday, state Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, introduced a new bill, the California Fans First Act, that would impose price caps on tickets sold in the resale market, limiting prices to no more than 10% above the ticket's face value.

By making it illegal ...Read more

Boeing will move engineering work for the 787 Dreamliner from the Puget Sound region to South Carolina, marking another move away from Washington five years after it shifted all final assembly for the 787 from Everett, Washington, to North Charleston.

Boeing told employees last week the “remaining 787 engineering work” would move from its ...Read more

The U.S. dollar’s value has fallen 8% over the past year, as the price of gold has skyrocketed, said the WSJ Dollar Index. Some think it is a good thing.

President Donald Trump said recently a weaker dollar is “great.” The idea is a weaker currency boosts exports and employment while a strong currency can throttle an economy.

While the ...Read more

Tesla, the 23-year-old company that brought green cars into the mainstream, has been pushed off its perch as the world's top electric vehicle seller.

Chinese EV manufacturer BYD sold hundreds of thousands more cars last year, and it's not just in China.

In most of the countries where the Chinese titan went head-to-head with Tesla — including...Read more

Workers of one of the most powerful unions in California are forming an early front in the battle against artificial intelligence, warning it could take jobs and harm people's health.

As part of their ongoing negotiations with their employer, Kaiser Permanente workers have been pushing back against the giant healthcare provider's use of AI. ...Read more

As film and television post-production work has increasingly left California, workers are pushing for a new standalone tax credit focused on their industry.

That effort got a major boost Wednesday night when a representative for Assemblymember Nick Schultz, D-Burbank, said the lawmaker would take up the bill.

The news was greeted by cheers and...Read more

BMW’s iX model is a a luxury EV market that solves a key problem of the market segment: comfort.

The iX model’s $100K+ base price tag is par for the course in the luxury SUV market. But for that amount of money, consumers demands often surpass the quality that manufacturers deliver.

Most EV drivers mainly use their vehicles for day-trips ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s marquee plan to increase access to fresh groceries on the city’s South and West sides — a plan that initially called for a city-owned grocery store and later evolved into a proposed year-round market — appears to have slowed to a crawl.

Johnson first floated the idea of opening a publicly owned ...Read more

OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. — The station wagon is back. And from an unlikely source.

My Toyota Crown Signia is long, sleek and roomy. Remove the badge and you might mistake the profile for the Volvo V90 Cross Country or Audi A6 Allroad, European stalwarts in the midsize wagon business. While wagons are common across the Atlantic pond, we Yanks ...Read more

Success securing a tentative contract for the United Auto Workers' first unionized foreign-owned plant in the South this week could help labor gain traction in the region and aid embattled union leaders' reelection campaigns, analysts said.

The deal announced late Wednesday night between Volkswagen AG and the automaker's assembly plant in ...Read more

The 2026 Hyundai Palisade Hybrid is what happens when a sensible accountant, a sleep-deprived suburban parent, and an environmentalist agree to stop arguing long enough to design a car. It is a large, polite, reassuring automobile that should easily woo buyers, except those who believe cars should be difficult, loud, or French.

From a distance,...Read more

LAS VEGAS — This is the year that Stellantis NV's U.S. vehicle sales must start growing again, after seven straight annual declines and prior promises that a recovery was just around the corner.

That was the blunt takeaway from a packed closed-door meeting on Wednesday between the automaker's senior executives and much of its 2,400-member ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority concluded a monthslong nationwide search on Thursday by announcing the appointment of Atif Saeed as its next chief executive officer and president.

Saeed will take the reins on March 11, after serving as CEO at the Philadelphia Department of Aviation, where he has overseen operations...Read more

The board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey voted Thursday to appoint a new executive director, as well as to revive a deputy director role — ending a gubernatorial stand-off that had kept port leadership in limbo.

Kathryn Garcia, a top aide to NY Gov. Hochul, was approved to lead the port, while Jean Roehrenbeck, a longtime ...Read more

The United Steelworkers Union announced on Thursday that its workers should prepare for a strike or lockout at the BP Whiting refinery.

USW 7-1 members authorized an initial financial transfer from its reserves into a strike and defense fund, according to a Thursday USW news release.

On Jan. 5, BP and the union started negotiations for a new ...Read more

Nevada has one of the highest rates of credit card debt in the country, according to a new study as the issue takes center stage during an election year.

A new Wallet Hub study found that Nevada households have the 5th highest rate of credit card debt in the country with an average of $12,832 and the state has approximately $13.7 billion in ...Read more