Alex Pearlstein

With its economy humming and housing prices rising, the city of Austin has joined other U.S. cities in looking for affordable housing solutions.

A geographical study of the last four years of U.S. patents shows that innovation and inventions are happening in places big and small.

The Wall Street Journal's quarterly analysis of 26 U.S. metro areas reveals falling prices and rising inventories in a number of overheated housing markets.

A University of South Florida professor predicts that a hurricane with similar intensity as Katrina would cause even greater devastation to Tampa Bay than was experienced by New Orleans in 2005.

Several non-profit organizations around the country are using prizes to help motivate the poor to improve their lives.