LEAVENWORTH — If it seems like Icicle Creek has a higher flow than normal for a drought year, you’d be right.

SPOKANE — Amazon plans to open its fulfillment center on the West Plains by mid-2020, with hiring to begin two months prior to completion of the project, according to an Amazon spokeswoman.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration warned California on Friday that its deal with four automakers to increase mile-per-gallon standards for cars violates federal law.

Let’s get this straight — the biggest financial institution based in this state is not renaming itself after an Egyptian political party from a century ago.

WASHINGTON, D.C, BEIJING — China and the United States on Thursday agreed to hold high-level talks in early October in Washington, cheering investors hoping for a trade war thaw as new U.S. tariffs on Chinese consumer goods chip away at global growth.

PULLMAN — Washington State University researchers believe they have come up with a home-run variety of wheat that grows well in the Northwest, produces high yields and provides premium noodle-making properties sought after by Asian countries in a market currently dominated by Australian growers.

SEATTLE — The Vancouver, B.C.-based developer Burrard Group said Wednesday it will partner with the nonprofit Low Income Housing Institute to build 41 tiny homes — one for each story of its soon-to-be-completed luxury condominium tower, Nexus, in South Lake Union.

Although construction firms are boosting pay and benefits, adding new training programs and adopting new technology, labor shortages continue to persist in the industry, according to a survey by the Associated General Contractors of America.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump declared the head of the Federal Reserve an “enemy” and further escalated tariffs on Chinese goods Friday after Beijing earlier in the day announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products.

PROSSER — Zirkle Fruit Co. will close its apple-packing operation in Prosser, which will lead to about 300 workers losing jobs starting in October, the company said Tuesday in a written statement.

SEATTLE — Boeing said on Tuesday it plans to add extra staff and hire “a few hundred” temporary employees at the Moses Lake airport where it is storing many grounded 737 MAX jetliners. The move is a key step in its best-case plan for resuming deliveries to airline customers in October.

BELLEVUE — Two decades ago, it was an old warehouse packed with stoves, refrigerators and other appliances. Today, it's a 20,000-square-foot facility with advanced technology meant to bring nationwide 5G to T-Mobile's customers before the competition.

OLYMPIA — A new committee intended to help shape Washington state’s agricultural workforce policy meets for the first time Monday in Olympia.

A woman in North Carolina can finally have her dream wedding after her finance won a big prize.

KENT — Exotic Metals Forming, a privately owned aerospace supplier headquartered in Kent with about 1,400 employees in Washington state, will be acquired for $1.7 billion in cash by Parker Hannifin, a large industrial company based in Cleveland, Ohio.

SEATTLE — As Amazon looks for more ways to sell everything to everyone, its latest experiment with physical stores borrows some of the company’s oldest online shopping inventions.

WENATCHEE — The YWCA announced Wednesday that it’ll reconsider the closure of its thrift store on Wenatchee Avenue.

MINNEAPOLIS — For years, American farmers’ battle against fake organic grain imports has centered on Eastern Europe. Now, an organic farm in South America is being scrutinized.

Southwest Airlines, the largest customer of the 737 Max and long an all-Boeing airline, insists it has “no current plans” to fly any jets other than the 737. But it’s at least eyeing the possibility.