Shoppers were out bright and early in search of bargains on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year.

NEW YORK — This year, holiday stress may take on a whole new meaning for online retailers.

WASHINGTON — In almost any other year it would be hailed as a public health victory: The smoking rate among U.S. high schoolers took its biggest hit ever this year, federal figures show, falling to a new low.

WASHINGTON — A glitch in Medicare’s revamped prescription plan finder can steer unwitting seniors to coverage that costs much more than they need to pay, according to people who help with sign-ups as well as program experts.

BECKLEY — Full-scale work on Facebook’s plan to expand broadband internet in West Virginia should begin within 10 to 16 months, according to Gov. Jim Justice’s office.

United Bankshares Inc., the Charleston-based parent company of United Bank, and Carolina Financial Corporation, the parent company of CresCom Bank, announced Monday that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement.

The Shops at Kanawha mall, in Charleston’s Kanawha City neighborhood, formerly known as the Kanawha Mall, has been sold for $18.5 million.

A technology company that announced earlier this year it was opening a branch in Charleston officially did so Monday.

Timberline Four Seasons Resort will go on the auction block in Philadelphia on Nov. 19, following an order filed Friday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

MARTINSBURG — Midnight on the General Motors picket line is a lively affair.

If you go to a Subway restaurant in West Virginia, most likely you are entering an establishment that the Hammond family either owns or helped develop.

More than $6 million of a $44.4 million Appalachian Regional Commission investment package designed to expand and diversify the economy in communities affected by a declining coal industry will benefit projects in West Virginia.

Chemours, the chemical company formed in 2015 as a spinoff of DuPont, announced Friday it plans to eliminate 57 jobs from its Belle plant by the end of the year.