Q: I have become very disillusioned with my telecommuting job. I accepted this position about a year ago because I liked the idea of working from home. However, I now have so many assignments that I can barely keep up. I was recently given a huge project which has me working until midnight almost every day.

My manager is located at corporate ...Read more

It should be the busiest time of the year at LeBeau Gardens, a full-service plant and home center in Downington, Pa.

Instead, with too few workers to fully staff its lucrative landscaping operation, the business could wither and die.

Why? Ask the Trump administration, says founder and owner Susan LeBoutillier.

She depends on a federal ...Read more

"Altered Carbon." "Stranger Things." "Bright." Those are all titles that are exclusive to Netflix, and they cost a lot of money to produce.

So, instead of tacking on another monthly subscription rate hike, Netflix is taking on more debt to keep those productions rolling.

Netflix said Monday it would go to the public markets and raise another $...Read more

In the wake of an in-flight engine failure that killed a Southwest Airlines passenger, the carrier has started ultrasonic engine inspections covering virtually its entire fleet of more than 700 planes.

The Dallas-based carrier canceled 40 flights over the weekend as it moved to conduct the inspections of the fan blades on all of its CFM56 ...Read more

Earth Day was Sunday, which means that retailers have once again made a round of announcements touting new sustainability initiatives in the last few days. This year, the big theme has been the rollout of more electric vehicle charging stations.

As car manufacturers look to convince more consumers to buy electric vehicles, one of the major ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The lobbyist whose wife rented a bedroom in a Capitol Hill condo to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt says he met with Pruitt last July with the charitable arm of pork processor Smithfield Foods Inc., despite earlier saying he hadn't lobbied the agency on behalf of clients in the past year.

Revelations that J. Steven Hart was present...Read more

SEATTLE -- Alaska Air Group reported a small first quarter profit Monday of $4 million, or 3 cents a share, on revenue of $1.8 billion.

That was down from $93 million, or 75 cents a share, a year ago. But it was a better result than management had forecast at the end of last year, when it predicted a loss for the first quarter due to the ...Read more

For Flickr, a pioneer in photo sharing, there's a new owner in the picture.

Flickr has been sold to SmugMug, a Mountain View company that offers paid photo-sharing services for professional photographers, for an undisclosed amount.

The future of Flickr, a favorite of many photo enthusiasts, was up in the air after Yahoo was bought by Verizon. ...Read more

CHICAGO -- The hedge fund run by Sears CEO Edward Lampert has offered to buy the retailer's popular appliance brand Kenmore and other Sears divisions, moving to break up the company after it failed to find other buyers for the assets.

Sears said it has received a letter from ESL Investments suggesting that it acquire all or a portion of its ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Suppose you want to go to Cleveland from Chicago -- how fast can you get there?

A car ride takes around five hours. A plane takes an hour and 20 minutes, not counting waiting time in the airport.

Hyperloop technology, which involves a system composed of a vacuum and magnets to propel vehicle pods through a tube, could theoretically ...Read more

Sixt Rent-a-car is the second-biggest car rental company in Europe but entered the U.S. market only in 2011.

But the German multinational rental company has grown so fast that it is now the fourth-largest car rental company in the U.S. Its fleets include high-end American cars, and Mercedeses and BMWs.

Sixt operates 52 outlets around the ...Read more