The minimum wage in Florida will rise Jan. 1, 2019, from $8.25 to $8.46, in accordance with a 2004 ballot amendment indexing the wage to inflation increases. For tipped workers, it will climb from $5.23 to $5.44.
New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day don’t alter business and municipal hours as much as Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, but expect changes in open/closed times from Publix to banks.
A program called PACE makes it possible for people with equity in their homes to get easy money for clean energy improvements, regardless of income. But some warn this can lead to financial hardship, even foreclosure.
The first of five public meetings is being held Saturday to discuss a proposed $230 million renovation of the Talking Stick Resort Arena that would keep the Suns basketball team in downtown Phoenix.
House Democrats have unveiled a package of bills that would re-open the federal government without approving funding for President Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico.
Federal prosecutors say a California utility's role in igniting wildfires last year could allow a judge to find that it violated terms of its criminal conviction in a deadly gas pipeline explosion.
Classes at an Indiana school are expected to resume next week following an explosion during winter break in a mechanical room that left two workers hurt.
A California utility says any determination that it started a wildfire by recklessly operating power lines in violation of law would bear on its probation in a criminal case.
New Mexico's incoming Democratic governor has appointed the private-sector investment manager and son of former U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman as her chief of staff.
