A Register series documented low pay, harsh conditions at the Des Moines Metro Opera. Now the opera says it's adding full-time staff and overtime pay.

Alabama Guardsmen pin the names of service members who died by suicide to their packs, Nov. 27, 2024, before the start of Operation Iron Ruck. (Sgt. Adena McCluskey/U.S. Army National Guard) Editor’s ...

The Metropolitan Opera cut back its 2026-27 season due to a tight budget, even as ticket sales improved slightly.

Mr. Scorca served as the president and chief executive of Opera America, a service organization, from 1990 to 2025. When the Washington National Opera announced its decision to leave the Kennedy ...

The U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in January, defying Wall Street estimates. WSJ’s Ashby Jones breaks down the latest jobs report. Photo: David Ryder/Bloomberg News Federal Reserve governor Stephen ...

The metro area’s return of “The Phantom of the Opera” is a full-circle moment for a Bloomfield Hills native in the cast. Alyssa Giannetti starred in an Andover High School production of “Phantom” ...

Mortgage rates are driven by bonds and that bonds care about employment data. There are quite a few different economic reports that focus on various employment metrics. Next Wednesday's jobs report is ...

Tens of millions of Americans are facing higher utility bills after regulators approved dozens of rate hikes last year. Regulators green-lit 43 rate hikes across the country in 2025, totaling $11.6 ...

The consumer price index for January accelerated 2.4% from the same time a year ago, down 0.3 percentage point from the prior month and the lowest since May 2025. Excluding food and energy, the core ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - U.S. job growth likely picked up in January, supported by fewer layoffs in some seasonal industries, but the labor market remained sluggish as lingering uncertainty over ...

Regarding rate movement, the bond market often does the Fed’s job for it, and so whatever the Fed’s Open Market Committee actually does is almost an afterthought. The partial U.S. Government shutdown ...