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FILE - Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Melinda French Gates speaks at the forum Empowering Women as Entrepreneurs and Leaders during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters in Washington, on April 13, 2023. French Gates says she will be donating $1 billion over the next two years to individuals and organizations working on behalf of women and families globally, including on reproductive rights in the United States.

Less than 2% of philanthropic giving goes to women and girls. Can Melinda French Gates change that?

June 2, 2024, 6:05am Business

Melinda French Gates ‘ has a long history of supporting the women’s movement, but it’s her new eye-popping funding commitments that could finally change women’s groups’ long-running lament that less than 2% of philanthropic giving in the United States directly benefits women and girls. Read story

Construction continues on the Wolfspeed factory in Siler City, N.C., on March 26, 2024. The new factory will soon produce advanced wafers for computer chips. Automaker Vinfast is scheduled to open a factory next year. Both projects stem in large part from incentives that Biden signed into law. Biden has campaigned on how his policies helped pump hundreds of billions of dollars in private and federal investment into companies. But so far, the investments haven’t significantly swayed a public concerned about inflation.

In one North Carolina county, it’s ‘growth, growth, growth.’ But will Biden reap the benefit?

June 2, 2024, 6:00am Business

SILER CITY, N.C. (AP) — At the epicenter of President Joe Biden’s promised economic boom, a slow tractor can still halt traffic. Read story

The Amazon Fulfillment Center on Cyber Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in San Bernardino, California.

Building warehouses comes with the promise of jobs. Here’s what those positions look like

June 2, 2024, 6:00am Business

As the warehousing industry in Philadelphia expanded and development boomed, so, too, did warehouse employment. Read story

Target’s chief food, essentials and beauty officer on innovation in the grocery aisle

June 2, 2024, 5:43am Business

Target has revamped its grocery aisles since the COVID-19 pandemic with items ranging from Korean foods and mocktails to barbecue-flavored trail mix as the discount retailer caters to shoppers who want to experiment while sticking to a budget. Read story

A big commercial, retail and residential development is underway at the Port of Camas-Washougal. The port is conducting a search to replace CEO David Ripp, who will retire at the end of the year.

Port of Camas-Washougal names top 3 finalists to replace retiring CEO

June 1, 2024, 6:06am Business

The Port of Camas-Washougal has named its top three finalists in the search to replace retiring CEO David Ripp. Read story

10 numbers to know about McMenamins Elks Temple

June 1, 2024, 6:06am Business

From purchase to grand reveal, the McMenamins Elks Temple research, restoration and construction project in downtown Tacoma took 10 years. What would have likely been a triumphant one-year anniversary for the Portland-based company and the city of Destiny was stomped by the worst of the 2020 pandemic. Read story

Ring has a new mission: ‘Hey, there’s raccoons in my yard’

Ring, Amazon’s doorbell company, is ditching crime fighting to become a smart-camera business with a cheery social-media side hustle.

June 1, 2024, 6:02am Business

For years, Ring touted its crime-fighting bona fides, selling smart doorbells that let homeowners remotely monitor their residences — and sometimes share what they recorded with local police. Now the Amazon.com Inc. unit is looking to transform itself into a smart-camera business with a cheery social-media side hustle, sort of… Read story