As the price of oil rises and concerns about global climate change intensify, it's good and important that we're talking about developing more efficient vehicles, such as hybrid cars, and lower-carbon fuels, such as...

These days, real estate is no longer primarily about your house, how much you value it and how much others value it. Why? Because transportation, its cost increasing as oil supplies tighten, demand for fuel grows and...

With 80 percent of its record orders backlog booked with overseas customers, the Boeing Co. should comfortably weather the current U.S. credit mess, CEO Jim McNerney said this morning.

"Right now, these developments aren't...

Boeing is reporting a 38-percent jump in first-quarter profits this morning.

The company reported net income of $1.2 billion for the quarter, compared to $877 million in the first quarter of last year.On a per-share basis,...

Oil is the bloodstream of the global economy, but its time as the dominant source of energy, powering everything from our cars and trucks to our pharmaceuticals and farming practices, is coming to an end.

At least,...

The Federal Reserve has just released its April Beige Book report, a collection of observations and reports from around the nation. We'll let CNBC worry about the nationwide outlook, and focus on what the 12th District board of...

If McDonalds' humorous new commercials, featuring corporate coffee orders and disillusioned customers admitting they only pretend to like jazz music, are an indication, the Golden Arches is attempting a hostile takeover of at...

Boeing and its partners have made a lot of progress toward getting the 787 on track, says Pat Shanahan. "We simply haven't made enough."

As a result, the company is pushing back its timetable for first flight and...

In a statement released this morning, the company says that while "significant progress has been made assembling Airplane #1," the first flight is being rescheduled, due to "slower than expected completion of work that traveled...

There's not much room at the inns in Spokane. Hotel occupancy rates last year grew by 14 percent - the fastest rate in 16 years, the Spokane Journal of Business reports. That's more than four times the growth rate in...

Whether you think being "green" - in your company's use of energy, transportation, etc. - is mostly a matter of putting on a good and trendy corporate face (with side benefits) or mostly a matter of doing what's right, you...

That's what I get for thinking.

I heard the rumor a couple months ago, that Boeing was going to buy the troubled Global Aeronautica factory in Charleston, S.C. Global is a joint venture formed by two long-time Boeing suppliers...

It's time to start watching Boeing's stock price.

As my friends at The Daily Herald in Everett noted this week, the deadline is approaching for another payout from the company's Share Value Trust program. If Boeing share...

Not all real-estate meltdowns are created equal. That's the upshot of this San Francisco Chronicle column which delivers data suggesting that sprawling suburban areas are seeing higher foreclosure rates than compact, urban...

Boeing appealed the tanker contract? What?  You woke me up early the day after I get back from vacation to tell me that? Of course Boeing appealed the Pentagon's decision to buy tankers from the EADS/Northrop Grumman joint...

The EADS/Northrop Gruman tanker proposal was superior to Boeing's in every regard, says tanker guru Loren Thompson of the Lexington Insitute.

"Boeing didn't manage to beat Northrop in a single measure of merit," Thompson wrote...

A university can thrive in a city or a suburb, but a city, by its nature, has certain immediate advantages over the 'burbs.

In a city, you find historic buildings in need of redevelopment, ample sidewalks and...

OK, the press conference is over.

My first reaction - this is a huge strategic win for Airbus' parent company, EADS. The Pentagon is the biggest weapons buyer in the world, and EADS wants - heck, needs - to get a share of...

Obviously, there was no tanker announcement Wednesday afternoon. Instead, a top Pentagon official told Reuters yesterday that her "best bet" is that word on the decision about who gets the $40 billion contract will come down...

Still no word from the Pentagon as to which way the tanker deal will fall - but Gov. Chris Gregoire already is putting the Air Force on notice about the political repercussions, should the generals opt for anything other than the...

If you're a farmer or rancher in Washington state, you're optimistic about the economy. And new numbers issued by the state Department of Agriculture Tuesday back up your optimism: Exports of food and agriculture products topped...

No word on tankers from the Pentagon this morning. So, while we wait, let's look at some other news.

The Los Angeles Times has an interesting profile on new Boeing 787 chief, Pat Shanahan. He doesn't have a high profile outside...

The honchos at Longacres may know by now whether Boeing or the EADS/Northrop Gruman joint venture has won a $40 billion contract to provide 179 aerial refueling tankers to the U.S. Air Force.

A key Pentagon committee met...

Sound Transit wants to pick your brain. The mass transit agency serving urban King, Snohomish and Pierce counties is asking the public to weigh in on what the agency should do with light rail, commuter trains and buses to improve...

These days it seems everyone's on the eco-conscious bandwagon. Even Clorox, which recently bought natural makeup company Burt's Bees, is pledging to redefine its image and has launched Green Works, a line of 99 percent natural...

So Lion Air went ahead and ordered 56 more 737s. That's a nice win, but we knew that was going to happen - they've been talking about it for a couple months.

No, that's not the real news from Singapore. The really interesting...

Perhaps it's a function of our swirling, blathering, attention-decifit-disordered 24-hour news cycle, but it's often difficult to find any kind of sober analysis of our current economic situation.

Yes, the sub-prime mess and...

A Pentagon spokesman says there will be a final decision by the end of this month on whether to buy aerial refueling tankers from Boeing or an EADS/Northrop Gruman joint venture.

Fortunately for him, this is a leap year, and...

All kinds of reports are surfacing about the potential blockbuster Delta-Northwest merger, which could get announced next week:

Air France reportedly stands ready to invest in the new mega-major;Delta CEO Richard Anderson wants...

LYNNWOOD - Puget Sound's aerospace cluster has a formidable advantage over anyone who tries to elbow their way into the field, a leading aerospace analyst said Monday.

"Everyone who's tried to start a cluster has failed," Teal...