Eve Troeh

A strike by East Coast dockworkers has been put off at least 30 days. These union members are often highly skilled, and they're critical to vital bottlenecks of global trade: ports.

One stretch of the river is closed during the day so Army Corps of Engineers can blast away rock just below the low water.

Many of the new homes being sold now were planned years ago. Finally demand has returned, in part because first-time buyers are being outbid by investors for bargain foreclosure sales.

A tax credit expires at the end of December. To earn it, wind farm operators have to have their turbines up, running and plugged in.

More businesses are open on Christmas Day than before. So what's behind the working holiday?

Yahoo has had four different CEOs in quick succession. Now it's changed almost all its directors in a single year. What can that say about a company?

Industry has fought tighter restrictions on soot from power plants for years. Today is the court-ordered deadline for the Environmental Protection Agency to deliver the new rules.

Some business people are definitely counting on the world not ending next week, with the end of the Mayan calendar. Have a commemorative beer!

The Department of Agriculture's final report for 2012 says farm income increased despite the drought, because of high prices for crops that made it to market. But the drought is continuing into winter and could affect next year's harvests.

Trains haul fracking supplies into the region and haul oil out of it. The oil boom comes at a good time: the railroads' mainstay, coal, is in a slump.