Eve Troeh

The Food and Drug Administration will allow cosmetic drug and device maker Allergan Inc. to market its stomach-restricting Lap-Band to millions of new patients -- patients who are less obese than those currently using the device. Eve Troeh has more.

Borders Group, the second largest bookseller in the country, has turned the page into Chapter 11 bankruptcy today. The company announced its plans to close almost 200 stores and drastically cut its staff. Eve Troeh reports.

Wednesday brought an end to the long-awaited deal between French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis and the U.S. biotech firm Genzyme. Sanofi will buy Genzyme for at least $20.1 billion. But the number could go higher if Genzym's drugs-in-development succeed when they go to market, as Eve Troeh explains.

An Ecuadorean judge has fined oil corporation Chevron more than $9 billion in a case that's spanned over a decade. The judge ruled that the company is responsible for the pollution of forest and rivers in northern Ecuador. Eve Troeh has more.

President Obama has released his budget proposal for next year's federal spending plan. The plan includes $1.1 trillion in cuts over the next decade. But Republicans already are saying Obama's plan doesn't cut it.

Staples is offering sustainable paper products and compostable kitchen items to corporate customers. Helping corporations be sustainable is also a way to sustain Staples.

BP posted a fourth quarter profit and is paying a dividend again. It's a far cry from the days of the spill when analysts wondered if the company wouldn't go on the auction block.

All that snow in the East has led to a national salt shortage. Localities are finding creative ways to make what they have go further as more snow hits. Eve Troeh reports.

There are hopes that trans-Arctic shipping may become more possible with the historic amounts of ice melting there, but it won't be easy.

In the 1970s, California faced growing concerns about the supply and cost of energy, in addition to worries about running out of landfill space....