NEW YORK — After going on a frenzied hiring spree for a year and a half to meet surging shopper demand, America’s retailers are starting to temper their recruiting. The changing mindset comes as companies confront a pullback in consumer spending, the prospect of an economic downturn and ...

New Hampshire artisan, Gingerbread Amy, is moving to Jamestown. Gingerbread Amy, also known as Amy Knapp, has run the Gingerbread Amy business in New Hampshire for more than 20 years teaching people how to make gingerbread houses. Knapp is also available for events and parties, and has ...

Lisa Haglund, president and CEO of Heritage Ministries, announced that Paul DeSantis has been named chief financial officer of the organization. DeSantis comes to Heritage with a qualified background including nearly two decades in health care and financial management, most recently serving as ...

NEW YORK — The rent has come due for America’s small businesses and at a very inopportune time. Landlords were lenient about rent payments during the first two years of the pandemic. Now, many are asking for back rent, and some are raising the current rent as well. Meanwhile, most of the ...

DETROIT — One of the first things 84-year-old Mahalie Wilson sees when she steps out of her home on Detroit’s east side is the brick, steel and concrete skeleton of the long-vacant Packard plant that looms over the neighborhood. Built in the early 1900s and still churning out high-end ...

A recent study by The Empire Center shows that New York still lags behind most of the nation in terms of recovering jobs lost at the start of the pandemic. Last week, the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank reviewed the most recent state and federal seasonally adjusted employment data. It ...