Stonegate Bank reports lower second quarter earnings

Stonegate Bank on Thursday reported net income of $1.9 million for the second quarter, or 17 cents per shar...

Healthcare

Florida’s largest health insurer, Florida Blue, is raising exchange rates an average of 17.6 percent

Florida Blue blames the impacts of older and less healthy adults who use more services for its rising rates.

Affordable Care Act

Florida mental and behavioral healthcare providers get funding boost from Affordable Care Act

Millions of dollars in federal grants were announced Thursday to help with treatment of depression, anxiety...

U.S. Century Bank reports a loss for the second quarter, continues to plan for a recapitalization

U.S. Century Bank on Thursday reported a second quarter net loss of $1.06 million, compared to a net loss o...

MTN Communications announces contracts with three cruise lines

Miramar-based MTN Communications this week announced contracts with three cruise lines.

Miami International Airport sees slight uptick in passengers

The number of passengers flying into and out of Miami International Airport keeps inching up.

Healthcare

Jackson adopts budget excluding potential big costs

The hospital system’s budget, which county commissioners must approve by Sept. 30, excludes mention ...

Birks Group to close its 80-person Tamarac administrative office next year, retain small office in South Florida

Birks Group, the parent of Mayors jewelry stores, said Tuesday that it will close its Tamarac administrativ...

FPL asks for OK to pass on nuclear charges

Florida Power & Light Co. is asking the state to allow it to charge customers for costs related to two prop...

China car parts plant blast kills 69, hurts 187

GM's faulty-ignition fund taking victims' claims

A fund set up by General Motors to pay for deaths and injuries caused by its vehicles with faulty ignitions...

Coal delivery issues causes fuel shortage at Xcel

Coal delivery issues are causing a fuel shortage at one of Minnesota's largest electricity generators.

PG&E to stop providing bottled water in Hinkley

A utility is halting its program that supplied bottled water to a Mojave Desert community whose toxic chrom...

Football HOF proposes adding contributor category

The Pro Football Hall of Fame is considering a proposal to add a contributor category, which could have the...

NDSU program aims to limit road dust in oil patch

North Dakota State University researchers are working on ways to reduce road dust caused by the rapid devel...

Leesville seeks more funding for airport work

City officials have approved removal of a hill near the Leesville municipal airport if more funding can be ...

International trade

Study: No Trans-Pacific Partnership would be a setback for U.S., Latin America

The U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim countries are negotiating the trade and investment pact but it’s expecte...

Panama Canal

Arbitration on Panama Canal dispute to begin in Miami

An arbitration tribunal sitting in Miami will hear the dispute, which has already delayed completion of a p...

Colombia Coffee

Starbucks salutes its roots with its first store in Colombia

Coffee giant Starbucks has been serving Colombian coffee for more than 40 years. On Wednesday, it opened th...

Colombia

Juan Manuel Santos: Colombia is ripe for investment

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his economic team were in Miami to attend a Goldman Sachs invest...

Ports

Building a fresh-produce gateway through South Florida ports

Q&A: Fernanda Mondaca

Q&A with Fernanda Mondaca, deputy director of the Trade Commission of Chile office in Miami

Twiplomacy

The world is aTwitter as more world leaders connect

Burson-Marsteller study finds that more than 83 percent of United Nations governments have Twitter accounts

Latin America

Low-gear growth predicted for Latin America

Speakers at a Center for Hemispheric Policy conference said some countries will do better than others, but ...

Technology revitalizes company's manufacturing

Getting your car clean is a high-tech business, says Steve L'Heureux, who leads Ryko Solutions, a Grimes co...

State cautious in approach to revenue software

The Indiana Department of Revenue is moving forward cautiously as it looks to replace outdated tax software...

State cautious in approach to revenue software

The Indiana Department of Revenue is taking steps to ensure taxpayers' information is protected and revenue...

Lotteries nationwide try to bring in young adults

Madi Williams, 21, spends her days selling lottery tickets at TAZ's Supermarket One convenience store in do...

Pennington names business development executive

David Winwood has been named chief business development officer for LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Ce...

Fugitive wanted by TBI arrested in Morristown

Authorities say a fugitive who was recently placed on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's top 10 most w...

Updated dinosaurs stalk America in arena show

What does a man who spends his work days creating animatronic dinosaurs do on his day off? If you're Sonny ...

3-D printer making prosthetic hand for Vegas girl

The little girl squirmed in her mother's arms inside a lab at UNLV, her American flag-themed dress contrast...

Norwegian Cruise Line to offer all-inclusive package

Norwegian Cruise Line on Wednesday announced it would sell all-inclusive packages for 2015 sailings startin...

New ship on tap for Princess Cruises

Princess Cruises said Wednesday it will welcome a new ship in 2017.

Cruise Lines

With new ships, Norwegian second-quarter earnings improve

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings reported higher profits for the quarter that ended June 30.

TOURISM

Convention center overhaul forcing travel trade show out of Miami Beach

Travel trade show IPW, which was scheduled to be held in Miami Beach in 2016, will instead meet in New Orle...

Norwegian Cruise Line adding more craft to cocktail program

Norwegian Cruise Line is expanding its partnership with one of Miami’s top mixologists.

Royal Caribbean profits surge in second quarter

Miami-based Royal Caribbean Cruises saw gains in second-quarter performance compared to the previous year a...

Carnival Cruise Line huddles up with Dallas Cowboys

Carnival Cruise Lines announced a new teammate Thursday: the Dallas Cowboys.

Norwegian Cruise Line giving away cruise in hunt

Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line is launching a social media scavenger hunt Friday — and giving awa...

Healthcare

Florida’s largest health insurer, Florida Blue, is raising exchange rates an average of 17.6 percent

Florida Blue blames the impacts of older and less healthy adults who use more services for its rising rates.

Affordable Care Act

Florida mental and behavioral healthcare providers get funding boost from Affordable Care Act

Millions of dollars in federal grants were announced Thursday to help with treatment of depression, anxiety...

Healthcare

Jackson adopts budget excluding potential big costs

The hospital system’s budget, which county commissioners must approve by Sept. 30, excludes mention ...

Affordable Care Act

Florida’s working poor fall into Affordable Care Act ‘coverage gap’

Advocates for healthcare consumers tout benefits that uninsured Floridians would receive if the state expan...

Affordable Care Act

Consumers asked to verify income, other information — or risk losing government subsidies for health insurance

Affordable Care Act

Dueling rulings create Obamacare uncertainty

Two courts have issued opposing rulings on the legality of the government providing financial aid to consum...

Healthcare

Affordable Care Act creates residencies for doctors in South Florida health centers

Community Health of South Florida trains physicians to help combat primary care doctor shortages.

Medical marijuana

Medical marijuana: Florida’s new business boom

Some of South Florida’s most established nurseries contemplate adding medical marijuana, Florida...