Supply & Demand

Venues, vendors and planners are feeling the squeeze.

'Every time we get to the end of the month, I have to choose what bills to pay.'

If you're heading out to an apple orchard or cider mill this fall season expect to pay more for apples, cider and doughnuts.

Officials warn that next year’s cuts in water supply could go even deeper as severe drought grips nearly 90% of California.

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Consumer goods like shampoo and coffee could get more expensive.

Taco Bell is testing a tasty monthly subscription service.

A trove of data reveals that when people moved away from dense and expensive metro areas during the pandemic, many didn’t go far.

Joe Sobol, owner of Big Easy Construction in New Orleans, has bad news for homeowners who've been calling about roofs damaged by Hurricane Ida or to get an update on renovations that were scheduled before the storm ripped through the area.

Smartphones can contain ~80% of the stable elements on the periodic table. This graphic details the critical metals you carry in your pocket.

Podcasters might increasingly question whether Spotify’s $$$ is worth limiting their exposure on other platforms.

Dropped my double-shot latte... The cost of coffee beans has soared 43% so far this year, according to NYT. A combo of factors are making beans...

Climate shocks in Brazil and shipping bottlenecks have pushed the price of coffee beans sharply higher. Starbucks says it won’t be affected for more than a year, but small cafes can’t hold off that long.

Homes in metro Detroit are selling faster than ever, as prices continue to rise and the number of houses on the market further shrinks.Data from Realcomp II Limited, a multiple listing service, shows homes in southern Michigan are selling at their fastest pace since tracking began in 2003…

ROCKFORD — An invasive bug that could threaten Michigan's Christmas tree industry has been discovered in the western part of the state. The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said Monday it confirmed the presence of the balsam woolly adelgid near Rockford in Kent County. …

$15 an hour is suddenly the rule, not the exception, for U.S. workers. It’s a major shift from pre-pandemic.

Data show average fares were at a record in July despite an improvement in the pandemic-driven shortage of drivers.

Molly Doyle stretches her shoulder as she preps a syringe of Versed — a brand of midazolam drug engineered to sedate patients for medical procedures. The pediatric dentist is prepping for her first of three procedures for the day. This one is the last four of 12 crowns on a 4-year-old child…

Our everyday routines changed over the past year, and with the 2020 American Time Use Survey, we can see by how much.

Have some patience for that neighbor with the unkempt grass this summer — it could be the supply chain disruptions of the past year just won't get off their lawn.Supply chain woes, from lawn and garden equipment to the global computer chip shortage afflicting the auto industry, continue to…

San Francisco has among the strongest tenant protections in the country, which encourages tenants to hang on to apartments as market prices go up.

Sales of masks surged 24% for the week ended Tuesday. Analysts expect the sales to jump even more after the updated CDC guidance

Roughly 180 University of Notre Dame students and faculty have signed an open letter calling on the school’s Campus Dining division to nix the proposed new shop.

Crank out the piggy bank... If you're still signing field trip forms, a $300 check could be on its way. Today, the US government starts sending...