This week, an idyllic beach on Fire Island was the site of a populist coup: Long an exclusive area for residents of the affluent nearby village of Bellport, Ho-Hum Beach was suddenly opened to ...

Shop windows along South Country Road in downtown Bellport are filled with T-shirts and trinkets bearing the name of Ho Hum Beach. Village residents refer to the wind-swept stretch of Fire Island as, ...

US consumers, trapped in a web of conflicting signals on the health of the economy and how it impacts their ability to shop, might be forced to spend less enthusiastically on a key bucket of ...

At Walmart, boring is the new fabulous. The $390 billion retailing giant is a bellwether for consumer spending. Walmart reported on Feb. 21 that revenue for the quarter ending January rose 7.3% ...

Brookhaven is allowing all town residents to visit Ho-Hum Beach on Fire Island — where for years only Bellport Village residents were allowed — in a bid to reverse a policy town officials said ...

Wind and heat doubled up in some parts of Iowa to deliver a one-two punch to the corn crop. A growing season that started with tremendous potential in east-central Iowa finished with yield results ...

4TH UPDATE SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU: Refresh for more analysis and chart....Disney’s Snow White is coming in lighter for the weekend with $43M domestic and an $87.3M global start. Not a happy ending for ...

The National Retail Federation just released its Holiday 2022 forecast predicting that November and December retail sales will advance between 6% to 8%. This comes on the heels of a 13.5% increase ...

Fox’s debut postseason college hoops tournament, the College Basketball Crown, delivered some ho-hum viewership figures. Sunday’s College Basketball Crown title game, which aired at 5 p.m. ET on Fox, ...

A mourner places her hand on a collection of photos of the people killed in a mass shooting Saturday at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, N.Y. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Tell me where you've ...

PHILADELPHIA - Eagles running back Saquon Barkley is the NFC's Offensive Player of the Week for the fourth time this season. That's hardly a surprise after Barkley's historic game in Los Angeles where ...

Yes, the holidays really are “right around the corner!” There’s no question the current economic environment has forced adjustments by both consumers and retailers, but we still want to know how it ...