Lifestyle and Budget

Holiday tips are a way to thank the people who make your life easier.

Global stocks are rising Monday morning as big technology and retail stocks in the U.S. recover some of their recent losses on the first full trading day of the holiday shopping season.

Desperate for relief after years of agony, Jim Taft listened intently as his pain management doctor described a medical device that could change his life.

Floodwaters rose about 15 inches (40 centimeters) into Danielle Rees' home in September when Hurricane Florence drenched this tidewater city on the Pamlico River and overwhelmed a local creek and marshland.

Airbnb is valued by private investors at $31 billion.

Shoppers heading online to purchase holiday gifts will find they're being charged sales tax at some websites where they weren't before.

Troubled utility SCANA has reached a $2 billion settlement with the South Carolina customers who sued after they were charged high rates to pay for the company's failed nuclear construction project.

Shoppers heading online to purchase holiday gifts will find they're being charged sales tax at some websites where they weren't before.

___ Black Friday shoppers ditch their computers, flock to stores NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers are offering much of their Black Friday deals online, but shoppers still showed up at malls and stores around the country looking for discounts — and to take in the scene.

Cozy sweaters and soft pajamas are in for adults.

Energy companies led a broad slide on Wall Street early Friday as the price of U.S. crude oil tumbled to its lowest level in more than a year.

The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 9:35 a.m.

Shoppers heading online to purchase holiday gifts will find they're being charged sales tax at websites where they weren't before.