Business & Economy

Nokia is expanding its lineup of Windows phones, and it's introducing its first tablet computer.

Apple Inc. unveiled a new, thinner, lighter tablet called the "iPad Air" along with a slew of new Macs Tuesday at an event in San Francisco. The announcement refreshes the company's iPad lineup and slashes the price of its Mac computers ahead of the holiday shopping season.

Alex Marshall, senior fellow with the Regional Plan Association, joins us to discuss how markets and corporations are actually a construction of the government and could be better designed to work in that format.

Two doctors join us to look at the ways in which a shift in our attitudes toward treatment can shake up the health care system as a whole.

Strong performances in the Atlanta, New York and London markets gave the company a lift. Passengers also increased their purchases of extras such as roomier seats and in-flight Internet access.

We talk with two experts about persistent joblessness and if anything can be done to improve the current state of our economy.

Rochester officials are considering an extension of the city sales tax as part of the local funding mechanism for the Destination Medical Center project.

U.S. employers added just 148,000 jobs in September, suggesting the job market was weakening before a 16-day partial government shutdown.

Residents in Carlton and Thomson are voting Nov. 5 on whether the two cities should consolidate. They have been talking about a merger for years but started to move more quickly when heavy rains caused substantial flooding damage in Thomson in summer 2012.

The average American woman is about 25 pounds heavier than she was in 1960. Yet women's plus-size clothing, generally defined as size 14 and up, still makes up only about 9 percent of the $190 billion spent annually on clothes.