Lifestyle and Budget

Spring and summer are popular times to look for a new home, but house hunters willing to brave the cold might be rewarded with a great deal. 

The Black Friday that isn't really Black Friday anymore has come and gone.

The highest gas prices in the world cost more than a Starbucks latte -- imagine filling up with that price tag per gallon.

Wal-Mart is giving customers a head start on holiday shopping, launching its annual layaway program two weeks earlier than last year.

Advocates for rooftop solar installations are accusing NV Energy of trying to kill their industry with a new set of proposed rates for net metering customers — those who have solar panels at home and sell excess energy back to the utility.

Amplify Snack Brands, the makers of the hit popcorn Skinnypop, failed to deliver on their first day of trading at NYSE.

Wall Street has been flooded with a string of healthy IPOs like SoulCycle, Plant Fitness, and Amplify Snack Brand Inc.--the makers of SkinnyPop popcorn.  

A lawsuit accuses CVS of deliberately overcharging some pharmacy customers for generic drugs by submitting claims to their insurance companies at inflated prices.

U.S. businesses' outlook on sales in the coming months has darkened after sales growth slowed in the second quarter.

Doris Ranzman had followed the expert advice, planning ahead in case she wound up unable to care for herself one day.

Amazon says its "Prime Day" sale led to a sales surge and "hundreds of thousands" of new signups for its $99 annual Prime loyalty program.

Medicare proposed Wednesday to ease a coverage policy on short hospital stays that has been criticized because it can result in higher costs for seniors.

A doctors group is proposing a formula to help cancer patients decide if a drug is worth it — what it will cost them and how much good it is likely to do.

CVS will buy the pharmacy benefits provider Omnicare in a deal valued at about $12.7 billion, putting it in a better position to get its prescriptions to the growing U.S. population living in senior-care facilities.

Federal regulators are proposing that PayPal Inc. pay $25 million to resolve allegations that it illegally signed up customers for its online credit product, used misleading advertising and mishandled billing disputes.

The steep cost of caring for the elderly continues to climb.

Getting to the Final Four won't be as costly for the parents of many players this week, thanks to an NCAA pilot program that is helping pay for families of athletes to travel and see their sons and daughters play in the biggest college basketball games of the season.

The nation's largest health insurer, UnitedHealth, is staking a bigger claim in pharmacy benefits management with a plan to buy Catamaran Corp. for more than $12 billion in cash.

Weddings have a way of getting expensive: any detail of a ceremony or reception or party can be blown out to epic proportions.

Mati Munoz lost her liver to hepatitis C, and the virus was attacking its transplanted replacement last year when her doctor prescribed a drug combination that could save the organ.