When local business owner, artist and former "Navy brat" Karen Colbert came to Incline Village on whim in 1986. Local artist and business owner Karen Colbert works on some of her intricate wall quilts in her store, Artists of Tahoe, Friday afternoon.

PITTSBURGH - A stiff drink comes with a stiff tax in Pittsburgh and surrounding towns these days, and that has made the county executive public enemy Number One in some quarters, reproached by name in song and on bar bills.

CHICAGO — Many Americans allowed themselves to fantasize about large-screen TVs, European vacations and other luxuries when they learned of the federal rebates they’d be getting this spring and early summer.

A mother and a daughter walk into a consignment shop, drop off a bright pink Coach purse and hope they'll receive $37 if it sells. No, it's not a joke. There's no punch line, only a gray line between luxury and necessity as people weigh the belongings

During challenging economic times, running any business can be tough, but running a nonprofit can be especially difficult. I asked Cathy Lanyard, executive director of the American Friends of ALYN (a nonprofit that supports one of the world's leading chi