Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A bill was prefiled for the 2026 Louisiana Legislative Session, aimed at raising the state’s ...

You still need to make quite a bit of money to afford the basics in Kansas City, new data shows. Each year, the MIT Living Wage calculator shares the amount of money a typical worker would need to ...

A phased-in minimum wage hike in Los Angeles that will mandate up to $30 per hour for hotel workers, signed into law by mayor Karen Bass, is already causing problems for the hotel industry and putting ...

As of 1 March 2026, South Africa’s national minimum wage has officially increased by 5%, rising from R28.79 to R30.23 per hour This adjustment applies across sectors, ensuring that domestic workers ...

Bitcoin mining difficulty has climbed to 144.4 trillion (T), up 15%, the largest percentage increase since 2021, when the China mining ban led to a major disruption, which followed a 22% upward ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Registered nurses at St. Charles Bend voted overwhelmingly to ratify a two-and-a-half year contract agreement on Thursday, Feb. 19. The deal provides a 7.5% wage increase for ...

Minimum wages increased across 19 U.S. states and 47 cities and counties on January 1. A whopping number of more than 8.3 million workers are set to benefit from these hikes. The largest increase is ...

Thousands of workers for the world’s largest meatpacking company have gone on strike. The dispute could make already costly ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A raise could be on the way for hardworking Virginians. On Friday, Feb. 27, the House of Delegates passed a bill previously passed by the Senate that would raise Virginia’s ...

China plans to raise defense spending by 7% this year, the slowest increase since 2021. China kicks off an 8-day parliamentary meeting Thursday. Beijing ranks second to the U.S. in military spending.