Increasingly, the answer to high gas prices and costly air travel is “staycation,” taking time off but staying home.

Increasingly, the answer to high gas prices and costly air travel is “staycation,” taking time off but staying home.

The ailing Wall Street bank plans to lay off as many as 1,500 employees, or nearly 6 percent of its work force, before it announces third-quarter results on Sept. 15.

A labor investigation says that 80 percent of the 110 backstretch workers at Saratoga Race Course who were interviewed were not paid minimum wage or time and a half for overtime.

A Craigslist solicitation for a live-in nanny reads like a desperate request for a certain kind of masochist.

A man arrested in the abduction of the boy he and his estranged partner adopted mistakenly argued that the Hague Convention allowed him to keep the boy, a prosecutor said.

The rescue of two window washers and the death of a third have spotlighted a perilous job that is a part of New York City’s fabric.

The results of a telephone survey conducted by The New York Times show that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg would find ample support in the City Council for a proposal to overturn the term limit laws.

Mr. Bass was the longtime music director and conductor of the Collegiate Chorale, a New York group whose performances and recordings have earned it international recognition.

A Craigslist solicitation for a live-in nanny reads like a desperate request for a certain kind of masochist.