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March 28, 2016 at 8:47 am

Job profile: TV writer now blazing a Web trail for hikers

Do what you love: Modern Hiker started as a hobby and guide to trails near Los Angeles. Now the site is a full-time job and...

October 28, 2015 at 12:59 pm

Amazon delivery drivers in Calif. sue, allege pay violations

The drivers say they should be considered employees and not independent contractors. That’s the issue at the heart of another California case involving Uber and...

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A tiny boat pulls up to a container ship being loaded at the Port of Seattle, Monday, Feb. 9, 2015, in Seattle. West Coast seaports fully reopened Monday after two days during which no ships were unloaded amid a labor dispute between dockworkers and their employers. The two sides are negotiating a new contract, and bargaining-table tensions have spilled over to the waterfront, where cargo is moving far slower than normal through ports that handle about one-quarter of the nation’s international trade nearly $1 trillion annually. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) WAET104

March 26, 2015 at 7:04 pm

Wave of change upends cargo handling at U.S. ports

Slowed activity at West Coast ports isn’t just the result of a drawn-out dispute between shipping companies and the dockworkers union. Changes in shipping-industry operations...

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Cranes load containers onto the ships at the Port of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, in Los Angeles. Seaports in the U.S. West Coast that were all but shut over the weekend because of a contract dispute are reopening as the nation’s top labor official tries to solve a stalemate between dockworkers and their employers that already has disrupted billions of dollars in U.S. international trade. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

March 4, 2015 at 4:55 pm

Dockworker union protected pay, clout as trade grew

Organizing all West Coast ports in the 1930s under a single contract prevents shipping companies from pitting workers at neighboring ports against one another.

September 16, 2014 at 5:57 pm

Feds sue Corinthian Colleges, alleging predatory lending

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) sued Corinthian Colleges on Tuesday, alleging that the ailing California-based for-profit college operator deceived tens of thousands of...

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June 15, 2007 at 12:00 am

Louisiana raises fuss over “Viagra Oysters”

Legend holds that oysters are nature's foremost aphrodisiac, but an Australian oyster farmer is pumping up his crop with a more modern libido...

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