The candidates for congressional delegate faced off Wednesday evening on issues including the economy, immigration, environment, education, and power service.

With the mortgage crisis saturating the market with foreclosed homes and nullifying the construction of new homes, some local builders are looking to home improvement projects to rescue their fledgling work loads this summer.

Bank of America officials said Monday that Calabasas would be the national headquarters for a combined mortgage business after the company acquires Countrywide Financial Corp.

Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Sales at U.S. retailers probably dropped in September as mounting job losses, plunging home prices and the deepening credit crisis shook consumers, economists said before reports this week.

WASHINGTON: It's not much of a report card. Half of Americans say U.S. schools are doing only a fair to poor job preparing kids for college and the work force. Even more feel that way about the skills kids need to survive as adults, an Associated Press p