Could worker cooperatives help ease unemployment rates and give workers more independence?

Beginning next July, California dry cleaners will be forced to ban chemicals solvents, joining many dry cleaners who have already done so. But environmentalists and experts question the real definition of organic dry cleaning.

Fewer Armenian goldsmiths and jewelry makers are teaching their children the trade. Will an ancient art be lost?

While middle-aged women still fight the onset of gray, young women have actually begun to dye their hair gray by choice—as a fashion statement.

An increasing number of people are combining conventional heating methods, such as an oil furnace, with nontraditional methods, such as heating stoves and pellet stoves, in an effort to buffer against frigid temperature and the fluctuating nature of oil prices. The shift is being spurred by a tough economic climate and the federal government’s tax credit for eco-friendly wood stoves and pellet stoves.

Why people are increasingly reluctant to relocate for work, even in a recession.

If the bridal shower started as a dowry, ensuring newlyweds had all they needed, today it has become a thunderstorm: a $400 million business with a focus on the extravagant.

A strong search-and-rescue team requires more than just a sensitive canine snout. Handlers need lots of time and money, two things often in short supply in this recession.

Planning for emergencies often takes a back seat to the daily running of a business. But proper planning can mean the difference between being back in business quickly, or not being able to reopen at all.

Beekeeping has been illegal in New York City since 1999, when bees were added to a list of over 100 wild animals prohibited within city limits along with cheetahs, scorpions and elephants. Despite the ban, an underground community of beekeepers is producing and selling contraband local honey.