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• Dreamliner is aloft again with CEOs aboard - 5/21/2013
  

  CHICAGO — Signaling confidence to the flying public that Boeing 787s are safe to fly, the CEOs of Boeing Co.

• Jackson County jobless rate drops to 9.6% - 5/21/2013
  

  For the first time in four-and-a-half years, Jackson County's seasonally adjusted jobless rate dipped below double digits in April.

• Housing industry organizations plan economic summit at Craterian - 5/21/2013
  

  The housing industry has regained its footing. Builders of homes and the folks who sell them have plenty to say about their revived industries.

• More poor live in suburbs than cities, analysis finds - 5/21/2013
  

  LOS ANGELES — Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas,...

• Apple used subsidiaries to avoid U.S. taxes: report - 5/21/2013
  

  WASHINGTON — Apple Inc. has used an elaborate web of offshore subsidiaries to avoid paying at least $44 billion in U.S.

• Home grown: Vortx - 5/20/2013
  

  Editor's note: This is one in a weekly series of profiles on locally owned and operated businesses in Southern Oregon.

• Fate of L.A. pot shops left to voters - 5/20/2013
  

  LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the...

• Internet currency on verge of mainstream - 5/18/2013
  

  Not that long ago, the virtual currency Bitcoin was one of the Internet's great rebel causes, a digital form of money embraced by libertarians and...

• People in Business - 5/18/2013
  

  Medical aesthetician and laser technician Corie Nunes has joined the staff of King Aesthetics, a skin-care treatment practice at 3180 State St.

• Abercrombie & Fitch CEO: Quote taken 'out of context' - 5/18/2013
  

  Abercrombie & Fitch Chief Executive Officer Michael S.

• Bar fight brewing - 5/17/2013
  

  A Medford nightclub owner warns that more shenanigans may be in store for the downtown if a tattoo shop owner opens a pub in the location of a former...

• Older passengers keep airport's numbers climbing - 5/17/2013
  

  There's a simple explanation for the sustained rebound in passenger traffic at the Medford airport — the finances of older folks are back in...

• Local Business - 5/17/2013
  

  Togo's sandwich shop has opened a second Medford site, at 1310 Center Drive, in the Harry & David Country Village.

• Consumer prices drop sharply again in April - 5/17/2013
  

  WASHINGTON — Another sharp decline in the cost of gasoline pushed consumer prices lower in April for the second-straight month and inflationary...

• American Airlines favors passengers without roller bags - 5/17/2013
  

  FORT WORTH, Texas — In a quest to speed up the boarding process, American Airlines is letting passengers board sooner if they travel lightly.

• Idaho spud giant bets on biotech potatoes - 5/16/2013
  

  BOISE, Idaho — A dozen years after a customer revolt forced Monsanto to ditch its genetically engineered potato, an Idaho company aims to...

• The mobile messaging fight is on - 5/16/2013
  

  SAN FRANCISCO — WhatsApp is one of Silicon Valley's most buzzed-about companies, yet it actively avoids the spotlight, operating out of a small...

• Regence layoffs hit home as 14 in Medford lose jobs - 5/16/2013
  

  Regence BlueCross BlueShield is laying off 56 employees across four states, including 14 at its Commerce Drive office in Medford.

• Oregon has second-lowest rate for business taxes - 5/16/2013
  

  Overall business taxes are lowest in Delaware and highest in Alaska, according to a study from economic consulting firm Anderson Economic Group.

• Families cut first-quarter debt to pre-recession levels - 5/16/2013
  

  WASHINGTON — American families reduced their debt load in the first three months of the year by 1 percent, bringing it down to pre-recession...