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How fast should you spend your IRA in retirement?

Retirement planning can be hard. Traditional, defined benefit pensions are going the way of the dodo bird. The majority of us will depend on a mix of…

Major retailers report sharp drops in sales of single-use plastic bags, after a fee was instituted in 2015.

Plastic Bag Sales Fell By 90% At England's Large Retailers In Past 4 Years

Major retailers in England issued 7.6 billion single-use plastic bags before a fee was instituted in 2015. In the most recent 12-month period, they cut that to 549 million.

KNKX Holiday Programming

This holiday season KNKX will do something a little different and A LOT more festive! Along with our usual mix of Christmas jazz, we will present NPR…

Fund For Victims Of Parkland Shooting Reaches $7.5 Million

The group overseeing the fund for victims of the Parkland, Fla., shooting met Tuesday to discuss how the funds will be distributed. As of now, more than $7.5 million has been collected.

Men shovel snow off the top of a building under construction in Franklin Lakes, N.J., on Thursday. Job growth in February was led by a sharp increase in construction employment.

Modest Wage Gains In February As Economy Adds Robust 313,000 Jobs

The largest increase in jobs in 1 1/2 years was accompanied by a 2.6 percent year-on-year increase in wages, a slowdown from January's pace. The unemployment rate held at 4.1 percent.

People, most of them from Eritrea, jump from a crowded wooden boat to swim toward a rescue ship about 13 miles north of Sabratha, Libya, on Monday.

1 Day, 40 Boats, Thousands Of People Rescued Trying To Get To Europe

In 24 hours, the Italian navy and aid groups rescued 6,500 people from wooden and rubber boats off the coast of Libya. The migrants did not have enough fuel to reach Europe.

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