Banks borrowed slightly more from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program over the past week.

The Arizona Supreme Court is being asked to overturn the Legislature's use of budget laws to set state policy on topics ranging from teachers' seniority rights and immigration enforcement to mortgage lawsuits and municipal building codes.

Flashing a badge and toting official-looking documents, the man would show up at small businesses across Oakland clad in a blazer and tie claiming to be a state or federal Labor Department inspector.

While taxes for the year 2009 aren't due to the end of April 2010, only one full month remains to take certain actions that will minimize those tax liabilities.

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems.

A man is facing charges of theft, extortion and impersonating a state officer for allegedly pretending to be a Labor Department inspector and charging small businesses hundreds of dollars.

A New York judge was so angry with a bank's "harsh, repugnant, shocking and repulsive" behaviour towards a financially struggling couple that he wiped out their $525,000 mortgage.

New home construction rose by a seasonally adjusted an annual rate of 157,300 units in October, up from 149,300 in the previous month, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Home sales in Los Angeles County rose 1.8 percent in October compared to the same time last year, but were down 5.6 percent from the previous month, according to figures released today.

The two sued for breach of contract. Deutsche Bank said Bank of America failed to secure $1.25 billion in cash and mortgage loans on its behalf.

Nov. 25 - Heavy rainfall and floods hamper the journey to Mecca as Haj pilgrims arrive in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

American International Group Inc. has agreed to settle all legal disputes with its former chairman Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the company said late Wednesday.

Former Portland mortgage broker Lee Howlett, labeled by federal prosecutors "a serial, unrepentant con-artist," was sentenced to 41 months in prison Tuesday.

Average rates for 30-year fixed mortgages fell this week, matching a record low set last spring and more than a full percentage point below what they were a year ago, Freddie Mac said Wednesday.

A gym owner-turned-investment fund manager was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that left investors short $35 million once the fraud unraveled.

A tempest in a trash can is brewing in San Diego County, where ACORN is trying to recover tens of thousands of documents taken from its garbage by a Republican activist.

At first it was just an unverifiable assertion. Now it turns out to have been a case of bureaucratic ineptitude and possible fraud.

The holiday shopping period is about to start up. While you're out at the stores, there are some important things you need to keep in mind about your finances.

Nearly a quarter of U.S. mortgage holders owe more on their loans than their houses are worth, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal .

Special Master for Executive Compensation Kenneth Feinberg, also known as the Treasury Department's "pay czar", speaks about TARP Big banks are roaring back.