Ken Stanford

Many people who buy their own health insurance could get surprises in the mail this fall: cancellation notices because their current policies aren't up to the basic standards of President Barack Obama's health care law.

U.S. banks earned more from January through March than during any quarter on record, buoyed by greater income from fees and fewer losses from bad loans.

Unemployment rates fell in almost all large U.S. cities in April, helped by stronger hiring. The gains show the job market is improving throughout the country.

California firefighters raced the weather Wednesday morning as they struggled to corral a wildfire that blackened nearly 3 square miles of forest in the mountains above Santa Barbara.

Georgia transportation officials are planning to hold public meetings on proposed rail service between Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C. One of the corridors under consideration runs through Gainesville.

The Mike Cottrell College of Business at the University of North Georgia (UNG) recently announced that two positions have been filled within the college.

One of President Barack Obama's top economic advisers is leaving the administration.

With Nike's help, Lance Armstrong's Livestrong cancer charity turned a little yellow wristband into a global symbol for cancer survivors. But that partnership, which started in 2004, will soon end.

America's working mothers are now the primary breadwinners in a record 40 percent of households with children - a milestone in the changing face of modern families, up from just 11 percent in 1960.