First task is to create 'compelling brand and product offerings'

The materials at issue are: bauxite, coke, fluorspar, magnesium, manganese, silicon metal, silicon carbide, yellow phosphorus and zinc.

Company wants to cut costs by 30%

But will still hire in priority areas

It's the first step by a Chinese energy company into the U.S. market.

Credit facility established to finance 'green' projects

CEO is still cautiously optimistic

Seventh month in a row showing smaller job losses

Assembly lines begin rolling off first models of crossover utility vehicle

Reclaims small-car jewel

The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement said Monday (Nov. 2) it would meet with five of the research firms currently providing set-top box data as a first step towards figuring out how the data could be used to measure TV

The Nielsen Co. has joined forces with the Westminster, CO-based direct marketing firm DataLogix in a partnership that the research giant believes will go a long way toward fulfilling the promise of online ad targeting.

Governor Chris Gregoire is leading a delegation of business leaders to Washington, D.C., today for meetings with members of the Obama administration.

Mining is traditionally a boom-and-bust industry. Right now, times are good.

Washington voters today are deciding two controversial ballot measures. Is the money spent on these measures a good predictor of their outcomes at the ballot box? Austin Jenkins reports.

A state board in Washington has approved a measure to give Puget Sound, Georgia Strait and the Strait of Juan de Fuca a new name. They've officially designated them the "Salish Sea."

Washington's top elections official is predicting voter turnout today will be "about average" for an off-year election. Secretary of State Sam Reed says the popularity of vote-by-mail should keep turnout on pace.

Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski joined officials from electronics giant Sanyo in Salem today to help open a solar cell plant.

Basic Rights Oregon is laying groundwork for a ballot initiative aimed at overturning Oregon's same sex marriage ban. April Baer reports.

Washington State's top elections official is standing by his earlier prediction of 51 percent voter turnout statewide tomorrow. Vote-by-mail ballots are trickling in to county offices rather slowly.