Economy

Next month, California will relaunch a popular program that gives affordable loans to first-time home buyers, but this time the state is tightening the requirements for applicants. 

Macy's will close 150 stores nationwide in the next two years, including San Francisco's flagship Union Square store.

A revered and long serving San Francisco independent small business may be establishing a new model of how to fight ramapnt theft by upping customer service with a plan that seems to be something patrons will happily tolerate.

Students trying to get federal financial aid for college have had their applications rejected if they have a parent who does not have a Social Security number, according to reports. 

All over the East Bay on Friday, football fans were getting ready for the big game on Sunday, with a lot of red and white, including food and wine. It's one of America's favorite food-focused days of the year. 

Many South Bay restaurants and businesses are bracing for a crush of customers on Super Bowl Sunday. One establishment says its weekly food & beverage order is 60% larger this week.

A top Federal Reserve official said Tuesday that he is increasingly confident that inflation will continue falling this year back to the Fed's 2% target level, after two years of accelerating price spikes that hurt millions of American households. 

The nation's jobs market is still moving ahead, but a slight slower pace. It’s, a Goldilocks pace that is neither too hot or too cold.   

The year of 2023 was both reserved and raucous in terms of the labor market cooling and labor unions colliding with employers. As every year and using the latest numbers available, we look at the evolution of employment year over year.