Matthews Brand Solutions ordered 300 one-gallon containers of canned food for a photo shoot. But what to do with the food afterward? They donated all the unopened cans to charity.

Leaders at smaller law firms say they're trimming costs, but the hatchet's staying in the shed -- for now. And while small firms are keeping retreats closer to home or eyeing operating costs more carefully, the turbulent economy is actually making some

In his first pronouncement as Business Secretary, Peter Mandelson suggested that recent proposals extending the right of parents to flexible working may have to be withdrawn. His reasoning is that new legislation would put extra pressure on small business

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 No. 1 in some quarters, reproached by name in song and on bar bills.

It was deja vu all over again for John McCain last week. The rapid drop of the Dow Jones Industrial Average kept the economy front and center, playing into the hands of Barack Obama and Democrats up and down...