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Your taxpayer dollars are set to go up in smoke. Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to roll out the green carpet for budding pot dealers with a scheme to let them dip into the public purse to start businesses when the state lega...

After falling about 25%, some of the region's stocks hold a lot of long-term value. Among the best: BP and BASF. We offer three additional picks.

A partial federal government shutdown begins at midnight. House and Senate lawmakers return Saturday to continue negotiations.        

Nike is flying high. Shares of the sports apparel maker soared 7.2 percent, to close at $72.37 Friday on the heels of a better-than-expected earnings report released Thursday. Sales rose 10 percent in Nike's fiscal secon...

With 2018 swiftly drawing to its close, five game-changing startups share their thoughts on the goals achieved in the PropTech sector over the past year, as well as their expectations for next year. Will 2019 be the year...

New Mexico's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held steady at 4.6 percent in November, unchanged from the previous month but an improvement from 6 percent a year ago. State labor officials …

Financial planning for children with special needs is complicated. The process takes time, and should be started early, experts say.

A motley crew of community organizers from New York and New Jersey think Puerto Rico's energy future and economic health is in its trash. The group will start feasibility studies in January to turn the island's trash int...

Even a partial closure would force a huge number of federal workers to stay on the clock without earning a dime

WOW confirmed it's axing service to at least four more U.S. cities. L.A., San Francisco, Dallas/Fort Worth and New York JFK will drop off WOW's 2019 schedule.        

Job openings currently exceed unemployed job seekers by more than one million, putting job seekers in a strong bargaining position -- but 64% of us still aren't negotiating salary.

Two landowners near Houston are accusing a major interstate gas pipeline of being responsible for the deaths of 40 trophy deer at a breeding facility. Liberty County landowners Monty Mullenix …

Attention, small business owners: don't let the year come to a close without crossing these important items off your to-do list.

Axing the head of the Federal Reserve would make it seem as though the central bank is under the control of a politician.

Massachusetts has added 1,500 workers to the state's renewable energy workforce in the past year. That's according to a new report from The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center -- a state …

Biotech firms are notorious for going splat, when their drugs don't get approval. Here's how to spot a possible winner. Example: ObsEva, specializing in reproductive issues.

Volkswagen's cleanup of a diesel cheating scandal will cost it 5.5 billion euros ($6.25 bln) in 2018 and around 2 billion euros in 2019, Chief Financial Officer Frank Witter told German weekly Boersen-Zeitung.

How circuit breakers work for the stock market and some of the opportunities and drawbacks.

Julian Dunkerton, the co-founder of fashion brand Superdry‎, is preparing to launch a proxy battle to secure a return to the company amid an increasingly hostile row with its board.

Police in Lake Havasu City are helping local gasoline station owners become more aware of skimmers. The city's police department says it recently has received multiple reports from people saying …

The Latest on California regulators considering splitting up Pacific Gas & Electric (all times local): 8 p.m. Pacific Gas & Electric says it's open to "a range of solutions" that …

A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine analyzed fatalities among young people in 2016.