Hurricane Gustav threatens to halt and/or damage oil production within the Gulf of Mexico, which could send crude and gas prices back up to mid-summers levels.

Homeowners across the U.S. are increasingly having trouble making their mortgage payments on time, but borrowers in metro areas of California, Florida and other housing markets are accounting for the biggest spikes in foreclosure filings

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's a fight that has the nation's largest chicken producers squabbling, Big Sugar and Big Corn skirmishing and Sara Lee mixing it up with Farmer John.

I turned to Hitwise data to find out more about them. By examining which websites social-network users visit after logging into their profiles, we can gain a bit of insight into how sites like Facebook fit into their members' daily online lives.

record 25.8 million passengers took Amtrak in the last fiscal year, an increase of 1.5 million over fiscal 2006, the national passenger railroad said yesterday. Time for serious thought regarding mass transportation!

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The next time you board an airliner and buckle your seat belt, you are about to fly through a bitter labor dispute between some of the people most responsible for your safety in the skies.

Shane Isbell has heard his grandfather's stories about working on the family farm. He has heard how his grandfather would work in the fields 10 to 12 hours a day picking cotton by hand. Today, that almost seems unimaginable for the fifth-generation

In the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, while much of the country was still stunned and grieving,

Two-thirds of UK managers believe that lack of management skills is the major factor contributing to bullying at work, according to new research. Misuse of power was listed as the most prolific type of bullying used within the workplace.

Hackers have stolen personal details of hundreds of thousands of users of US jobs website Monster.com, according to Internet security firm Symantec.