NEW YORK — Ricki Fairley, a 11-year late-stage breast cancer survivor and advocate, is fighting hard to improve the chances for Black women to overcome breast cancer and to address the racial disparities in treatment. Before her diagnosis in 2011, Fairley, 66, was a seasoned marketing ...

Mayor Eddie Sundquist has been elected to the National League of Cities Board of Directors by NLC’s membership at the organization’s 2022 City Summit in Kansas City, Mo. Sundquist was elected to a two-year term and will provide strategic direction and guidance for the league’s federal ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Netflix’s trailblazing DVD-by-mail rental service has been relegated as a relic in the age of video streaming, but there is still a steady — albeit shrinking — audience of diehards like Amanda Konkle who are happily paying to receive those discs in the iconic ...

Back in January, 109 container ships waited off the California coast to unload cargo in Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation’s two largest ports. Consumers, stuck at home amid the pandemic, had unleashed an avalanche of orders for goods that overwhelmed factories and ports. Importers were ...

ALBANY — Business advocates are calling on the state to return unemployment insurance rates to pre-pandemic levels after an audit determined fraud and lax oversight by the state Department of Labor led to $11 billion in losses for the fund that pays jobless benefits. The National Federation ...

LOS ANGELES — Homebuilders have pumped the brakes on new single-family home construction this year, a trend that’s likely to extend into 2023, according to several forecasts. Single-family housing starts were running at a seasonally adjusted annual pace of about 1.16 million properties in ...