Business

CASINOS: Little Creek gets new chief executive, GM

Lyle Mitchell Corbine is the new chief executive and general manager of the Little Creek Casino Resort, the Squaxin Island Tribal Council announced Friday.

Company to reopen rail car facility

One of the nation's largest railroad services companies plans to reopen a Tacoma Tideflats locomotive and rail car repair and rebuilding facility that closed last summer because of the recession.

New Boeing plant 'all about competitiveness'

The Boeing Co. could get as much as $400 million in incentives to build its new 787 Dreamliner factory in South Carolina, Gov. Mark Sanford said in an interview Friday.

Investors again faced with wall of worry

Investing is never easy.

Port ordered to pay activists

OLYMPIA - The Port of Olympia must pay about $56,000 in legal fees and costs to activists who sued for records related to a contractual agreement to bring Weyerhaeuser's log-export business here a few years ago, a judge ruled Friday.

BANKING: Chase drops credit card arbitration clause

JPMorgan Chase & Co. said Friday that it is dropping a clause from its credit card contracts that required disputes with customers to be handled through binding arbitration, a move that could lead to consumers filing class-action and other lawsuits.

INDUSTRIAL SPACE: : Real estate broker plans quarterly reviews

Beginning this week, commercial real estate broker GVA Kidder Matthews will be reviewing the quarterly state of industrial space in Thurston County.

EARNINGS: Smucker nearly triples profit

J.M. Smucker Co. nearly tripled its profit in the second quarter as the addition of Folgers coffee gave a jolt to its lineup and lower commodity prices fattened its profit margins.

THANKSGIVING: Big Apple to serve up ritzy turkey dinners

The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free dinners across New York City this Thanksgiving – meals planned by a star chef, cooked by one of New York’s ritziest caterers and cleaned up by employees of one of Wall Street’s most vilified financial firms.

Port to decide on NorthPoint

OLYMPIA - The Port of Olympia Commission will vote Monday on the next step in the redevelopment of NorthPoint, the 2.4-acre parcel at the tip of the port peninsula that could become home to a hotel and restaurant or a mixed-use office building and restaurant.