Follow the battle for your health-care price tag, learn the science of saving gasoline, and find out how to keep burglars away without getting robbed yourself, all in today's Personal Finance section.

Differences in a major bill aimed at controlling spiraling health care costs in Massachusetts are being negotiated in private by the leaders of the House and Senate, bypassing a traditional legislative conference committee and excluding any input from Rep

General Motors Corp. announced Tuesday it would cut salaried jobs, salaried retiree health care and 150,000 additional units of truck production, as its sales plummet because of a weak U.S. economy and high gasoline prices.

REEDSBURG—The proposed site for the new Sauk County Health Care Center on the western edge of Reedsburg now features a pond that isn't supposed to be there. The body of water was even deeper in the immediate aftermath of June's flood. Pat Froetschel,

You can expect to wait to be served if government provides health care. And you can expect ultimately a bureaucrat will decide what health care you receive.