Marriott International Inc. is starting a new home-rental business, aiming to take on Airbnb Inc. and other home-sharing companies in one of the lodging industry’s hottest segments.

Calls for the state to take over the troubled Harrisburg School District grew louder last week as tensions continue to mount among local leaders over fiscal management concerns, questionable hirings, high teacher turnover, and persistently poor test scores.

Taxes on internet sales have created a small windfall for Pennsylvania, according to state officials — thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and the rapid growth of online retail.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp said on Monday it planned to resume talks with Occidental Petroleum Corp over its $38 billion bid lodged in competition with an earlier $33 billion bid from Chevron Corp.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Sunday that trade talks between the United States and China were entering a critical point as an American delegation heads to Beijing this week to try to finalize a long-awaited deal.

If insurance coverage for small businesses could be compared to a relay race, your liability policy would begin the race and your umbrella policy would finish it. Or, using baseball as our sports analogy, the business liability policy would be the starter and the umbrella policy would be the closer. Here’s why: A company’s business liability policy outlines the maximum ...

As parents, teachers or coaches, we are often telling those we are entrusted with to ‘pursue your passion.’ This sounds noble because we don’t want to be telling them to go out and get a job where, as long as it makes good money, it doesn’t really matter how miserable you feel. But I think we’ve mislabeled what we were really trying to say.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. plans to wind down his personal charity, the Biden Foundation, as he enters the 2020 presidential race, people briefed on the preparations said on Monday.

A Pennsylvania woman claims Harriet Carter Gifts, a former Montgomeryville retailer that closed in March, used software to secretly record information that consumers typed on its website, according to a proposed class-action lawsuit.

If you liked the past year of free evening parking in downtown Harrisburg, you’ll love this: City Council has approved renewal of the program for three more years.

Timothy Miller, 55, joined Enola-based Dawood Engineering as director of energy services in June 2018. He has more than 30 years of experience in the field, most recently serving as director of oil and gas Appalachian Basin water management services for a large international engineering consulting firm.

Would we treat people differently if we could spend time walking in their shoes? This is an important question for us as individuals and citizens, but I think it’s equally important for us to consider as business owners and professionals.

U.S. manufacturing conglomerate 3M on Thursday said it would lay off 2,000 workers globally as it reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit and cut its 2019 earnings forecast due to worsening performance in key markets.