Posted: 2:32 PM With summer temperatures soaring, the Texas Public Utility Commission is set to vote on raising the price cap on wholesale electricity rates by 50 percent.

Posted: 2:25 PM The dollar is trading higher, boosted by encouraging - if incremental - news about the U.S. economy.

Posted: 2:42 PM n yet another change that upset users, Facebook has replaced the email addresses users chose to display on their profile pages with (at)facebook.com addresses.

Updated: 3:30 PM Joe Pool, Jr., attorney and former Texas Supreme Court candidate, endorsed John Devine over the incumbent, David Medina, for the Texas Supreme Court primary run-off election on Tuesday night.

Updated: 4:41 AM Texas A&M maintenance, landscaping, custodial, and dining employees met with A&M President R. Bowen Loftin and University System Chancellor John Sharp Thursday morning to learn their fate in the university's plan to outsource their departments.

Posted: 3:41 PM Songza, a new online radio service, is leapfrogging Pandora as the most popular free music app for Apple devices.

Posted: 4:47 PM Facebook's stock closed with a gain for the week for the first time since its initial public offering a month ago.

Updated: 1:37 PM U.S. stocks are higher in morning trading, despite an increase in the number of new jobless claims.

Posted: 3:14 PM A new study says women physician-scientists are paid much less than their male counterparts. The salary difference over a career could pay for a college education, a spacious house, or even a retirement nest egg.

Updated: 5:14 PM The Bryan-College Station Eagle has been sold to Berkshire-Hathaway Inc.

Updated: 3:56 PM (Press Release) Children and teens can easily go over their cell phone data limit playing games, surfing the Internet, and downloading music

Updated: 4:39 AM The fastest growing small businesses in the area were honored Wednesday.

Updated: 10:43 PM Last September, Texas State Climatologist Dr. John Nielson-Gammon said that Texas as a whole could be in store for a 10 to 15 year drought. After soaking Winter rains, is that forecast still valid?

Updated: 11:04 PM If you take the time to look up, you'll see dead and dying trees across the Brazos Valley and all over Texas. While some of the after effects of last years drought are just now showing up, it is not too late to save stressed landscape.

Updated: 3:40 AM Coming off the drought of 2011, and with the uncertainty that there could be drought conditions once again this summer, water conservation is highly important -- and important now.

Updated: 4:36 PM Amazon.com will start collecting sales taxes from Texas customers this summer after a long legal dispute with the Texas Comptroller.

Updated: 5:38 PM At a luncheon and award ceremony by the Better Business Bureau, four Bryan-College Station businesses were given Torch Awards for their high standards in ethical behavior.

Updated: 6:50 PM A local agency whose mission is to help provide significant funding to area non-profits has not provided that funding for four months.

Updated: 9:19 AM This week's Drought Monitor came out at 7:30am Thursday showing all the Brazos Valley in D1: Moderate Drought.

Updated: 9:07 PM After several inches of soaking rains fell across most of the Brazos Valley this past weekend, parts of the area saw further improvement from the ongoing drought.

Posted: 3:58 PM NEW YORK (AP) - Strong February retail sales are driving stocks higher. The Nasdaq is pushing above 3,000 for the first time in two weeks.

Updated: 1:36 PM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A marketing stunt that paid homeless people to carry Wi-Fi signals during the South By Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas, is drawing widespread criticism.

Updated: 2:39 PM *Update* WACO (March 13, 2012)—Baylor announced Tuesday that Temple businessman Drayton McLane, Jr. and his wife Elizabeth have made the largest capital donation in university history for construction of a new on-campus football stadium.

Updated: 3:57 PM FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Governors of states along the Gulf Coast want President Barack Obama to stop the U.S. Air Force from potentially moving eight planes used in disasters to Montana.

Updated: 11:58 AM BASTROP, Texas (AP) - Parts of Central Texas devastated by wildfires last year have benefited from more than $4 million in private donations and the help of volunteers who are rebuilding homes.