The tax exemption for the growing industry is called unfair, but the nonprofits say consumers benefit.

WASHINGTON – Regulators want to require eight of the largest U.S. banks to meet a stricter measure of health to reduce the threat they pose to the financial system. The Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are expected to propose Tuesday that banks increase their […]

The recent combining of the medical-surgical and intensive care units has cut 16 full-time positions.

NEW YORK – Once up on a time, there was a popular search engine called AltaVista. It lives no more. On Monday, its owner Yahoo Inc. sent AltaVista.com to the Internet graveyard to rest alongside order-almost-anything venture Kozmo.com and the butler from Ask Jeeves. Palo Alto, Calif.-based AltaVista was introduced in 1995, three years before […]

T-Mobile helped increase the iPhone’s share of the smartphone market in the latest three-month period, according to a survey released Monday. Apple’s U.S. smartphone market share increased 3.5 percentage points in the three months that ended in May from the same period last year, according to consumer research firm Kantar Worldpanel. The iPhone accounted for […]

Americans’ borrowing in May took its biggest jump since the same month one year ago.