Worldwide, food prices have sparked riots and protests. Closer to home, the situation isn't quite as grim, but most shoppers will have problems staying on budget if they don't start shopping strategically, said Betty English, a cooperative extension age

As retailers wrap up a lackluster back-to-school season, grim forecasts for the holidays have already begun to trickle in. The Christmas shopping season will be the worst in 17 years, according to a survey by TNS Retail Forward. The Columbus...

Embassy Suites Hotels today announced the brand's debut in The Last Frontier - Alaska - with the opening of the Embassy Suites Anchorage. Located in midtown Anchorage, the 169-suite hotel is also the upscale brand's first property developed and owned by

Helen Henkel, a 79-year-old retired first-grade teacher, wheeled her shopping cart past aisles of bread at Kroger on Friday, perplexed because the prices were probably too high to buy the fixings for her favorite Weight Watchers casserole.

Two hundred years ago, America’s winter holidays were a celebration of nature. There were no imported trinkets, plastic decorations or carol-playing figurines. Our traditions are rooted in the bounty of farm, garden and countryside, where the original s