By Stephanie Rosenbloom THE NEW YORK TIMES Just ahead of the crucial holiday shopping season, most of the nation’s retailers reported double-digit declines in October sales on Thursday, underscoring how the financial turmoil has touched all stores, be

SPRINGFIELD - Education and hands-on involvement in healthy meal preparation are the first steps to making a lasting change in our children's nutritional future.

By R.A. DYER AUSTIN -- In a sign of tough times ahead for ratepayers, electric wholesale prices have spiked to nearly unprecedented levels this week, and regulators now warn that thousands of Texans who have been involuntarily switched to alternative pow

Centro Properties Group, an Australian shopping mall operator struggling through the global credit crunch, said Monday a potential buyer of its U.S. assets had canceled the deal.

On 28 March 2008 the Commerce Commission declined to grant clearance for DFS Group Limited (DFS Group) to acquire 100 per cent of the shares in The Nuance Group. The Commerce Commission has now released its reasons and these can be viewed on the Commissio