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Future oil and gas drilling will be limited across more than 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, the nation’s largest expanse of public land, under a sweeping Biden administration plan aimed at protecting sensitive ecosystems and wildlife.

Cocoa futures in New York touched a fresh record as the pace of processing in chocolate factories holds up despite a global supply crunch and record prices.

While malaise sets in across much of the electric vehicle market, there’s a corner that’s still going strong, where buyers like Chris Russo show little concern about high prices or range anxiety or spotty charging infrastructure.

Walmart, the largest U.S. employer with a workforce of 1.6 million, is slowly building a network of in-store clinics, believing it has a place in America’s health care system.

For years, Kody Lukens wanted a better tool to help him with his attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

As the weather warms in the Lilac City, it becomes the season for days at the lake or time spent in the garden.

California’s already strained property insurance market is facing a new challenge as two more insurers, Tokio Marine America Insurance Co. and Trans Pacific Insurance Co., plan to withdraw from the wildfire-prone state entirely starting in July.

At first, thinking about how to get life insurance might seem overwhelming. If you’re not familiar with coverage types or how to buy life insurance policies, you might be tempted to put it off.

The Treasure Valley is hitting its spring homebuying season with a force.

In the early morning light, it’s easy to mistake the towering gray mounds for an odd-looking mountain range — pale and dull and devoid of life, some pine trees and shrublands in the foreground with lazy blue skies extending up beyond the peaks. But the mounds aren’t mountains.

A real estate investment trust (REIT) is usually a company that owns many properties, generating income by leasing them out.

Employees at Mercedes-Benz Group's assembly and battery plants outside Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will vote whether to join the United Auto Workers from May 13-17, the National Labor Relations Board said Thursday.

California's massive budget deficit, coupled with the state's relatively high level of joblessness, has become a major barrier to reducing the billions of dollars of debt it has incurred to pay unemployment benefits. 

Google has terminated 28 employees after dozens of workers participated in sit-ins inside company offices earlier this week to protest the tech giant's work in Israel amid the war against Hamas in Gaza.  

Captain Robert Graves sees strangers every day as a pilot for Southwest Airlines. There’s not always a deep relationship with the people he works with or the people he meets. It’s a few constant people he may see, but even then, it may be months until he recognizes the co-pilot or flight attendants on his flight. It’s a job that can feel alienating just by the nature of the work, he said. It sometimes feels isolating.

Both sides are hurdling toward a strike as contract negotiations have halted between Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and the union representing the hospital’s technical workers.

A roughly 1.5-acre property may soon be packed with 13 buildings, each three stories tall in north Spokane. The structures will include a total of 78 apartment units. 

Tesla Inc. will ask shareholders to vote again on the same $56 billion compensation package for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk that was voided by a Delaware court early this year.