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Ally Financial Inc. has agreed to pay $2.1 billion as part of a settlement plan to resolve potential financial claims stemming from its mortgage division, Residential Capital LLC, which is in bankruptcy proceedings.

RATES RISE: Average U.S. rates on fixed mortgages rose this week to their highest levels since mid-March. Even with the gains, they remained close to historic lows.

Remember that Obama campaign ad featuring Mitt Romney singing "America the Beautiful" to scenes of Caribbean islands where the GOP nominee had invested some of his considerable wealth? So do Republican senators who plan to question Commerce Secretary nominee Penny Pritzker about her own off-shore assets at a confirmation hearing today, a ... (more)

Average rates on fixed mortgage rose for the third straight week, hitting their highest levels since mid-March. Still, mortgage rates remained close to historic lows, a trend that should help sustain the housing recovery.

Seven million college students are on track to see their federal loan rates double this year unless Congress acts ahead of a July 1 deadline when subsidized Stafford loan rates will increase from 3.4% to 6.8%. The U.S. House will vote Thursday on a Republican plan to head off the increase inspired by an unlikely source: President Obama.

The city council has powers to stop neighbourhoods being overrun by so-called houses of multiple occupation after the government removed the need for landlords to get planning permission.

If you're like me, you're counting the days until the first red, ripe tomato appears in the garden or at the farmer's market.

IT would be out of character for broadcaster and writer David Fitzgerald to say anything too complimentary about his home.

Two babies are among the 24 fatalities in the tornado that tore through suburbs of Oklahoma City, officials say, as residents begin the daunting task of rebuilding their lives in the wake of the catastrophe.

Almost a third of Canadian households report never or almost never having any money left to save after paying their bills, according to a new study issued Wednesday.

The rubble of a destroyed neighborhood lay mixed together where it fell Tuesday, May 21, 2013 a day after a tornado moved through Moore, Okla.

Its imaginative 'sight loss' garden, designed by Darren Hawkes, was created to encourage show visitors and TV viewers to consider the impact of sight loss and included landscaping and planting to represent four specific sight conditions.

It was as if the storm outside were a living, breathing thing - and it was trying desperately to get in.

For a talented, creative few, there's David Letterman. For most, there's a labyrinth of paperwork, hard decisions and painful sacrifices that could have dramatic repercussions on their financial health decades from now.

Canada's housing market is slowing dramatically in terms of both sales and construction, dragging down economic growth and putting some 150,000 jobs at risk in coming years, a mortgage industry association warns in its spring report.

Mark O'Donnell usually books his family's summer vacation in January. For the last dozen years, that meant reserving an oceanfront house for a week in Long Beach Island, a quiet cluster of beach towns on the New Jersey shore.

On this piece of pizza - from a 30-inch pie - comes shredded pepperoni, fresh jalapeos and onions.

Lowe's first-quarter net income rose almost 3 percent, even as a wet and cool spring dampened sales of gardening products.

A woman returned to her home after a few days away on the 400 block of East Pleasant Street on May 7, to discover her home had been burglarized.

If you have a savings account you probably already know this: Your money there is losing value to inflation.