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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—The pilot of a small plane was killed when it crashed at Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, authorities said. The Cirrus SR 22 took off from the airport Sunday afternoon, airport officials said in a statement. The pilot declared an emergency, and then crashed north of the airport’s cargo building, authorities said. […]

BOSTON—The owner of a flight school and a student pilot were among three people who died in a small plane crash in a remote, wooded area of Massachusetts over the weekend, state police said Monday. Fredrika Ballard, 53, of Southwick, Massachusetts, owned the Fly Lugu Flight School while William Hampton, 68, of Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, […]

PLANO, Texas—A pilot who died when the small plane he was flying crashed and burned on the doorstep of a strip mall in Texas was aborting a landing, according to an incident report released Wednesday. Plano police on Wednesday identified the pilot of the single-engine Mooney M20 as 87-year-old Elzie Monroe McDonald, of Arizona, The […]

LIMINGTON, Maine—A 62-year-old pilot suffered minor injuries when his plane crashed less than a mile from an airport following an engine failure, state police said. The yellow single-engine plane came to a rest nose-down in a thicket of woods Thursday afternoon, and Bradley Marson was walking around the scene when a state trooper located the […]

This film is only available in the United States and Canada because of territorial licensing. Based on a true story, an unassuming small-town homemaker teams up with an untested lawyer to save her family from the billion-dollar coal mining company destroying their health and local natural resources.

Newly released polling data shows inflation is a top concern for small businesses as prices continue to rise. The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) released the survey, which shows that 30 percent of owners named inflation as the single-most important problem in running their business. “Inflation and worker shortages continue to be the hardest […]

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Confidence among America’s small business owners dropped in March, according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), with a growing share of owners reporting that their single biggest problem was inflation. In its monthly survey of small business sentiment, the NFIB said its Small Business Optimism Index dropped 2.4 points to 93.2 in March, […]

A new survey by Goldman Sachs paints a picture of U.S. small businesses struggling under the weight of surging prices, hiring woes, supply chain dislocations, and an Omicron-driven fourth wave of infections. The survey, released on Jan. 24 and based on a poll of 1,466 small businesses, shows that 76 percent of respondents said inflation […]

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Sunday said the administration would not rule out extending the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses to employers with fewer than 100 workers. Last Thursday, the Department of Labor published its emergency temporary standard rule stipulating that businesses with 100 or more workers mandate vaccinations or weekly COVID-19 testing […]

The Biden administration’s emergency COVID-19 vaccination requirement released today could be expanded in the future to employers who have fewer than 100 workers. The emergency temporary standard, issued by the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and scheduled to go into effect on Friday, is presented as only applying to firms that have 100 […]

Just 6% of small businesses that were negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic have fully recovered their losses, a Job Creators Network survey showed

Some small businesses say generous unemployment benefits are discouraging people from going back to work. Retailer Avi Kaner told NTD that some former employees asked why they would go back to work when they can earn so much staying at home. Now a new report says record numbers of small businesses are struggling to fill […]

A record number of small businesses couldn’t find enough workers to hire in April, according to a new report from the a small-business lobby group.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said Sunday that, while he’s “all for” small businesses, those that can’t afford to pay $15 an hour are undesirable.

At the height of the pandemic-related lockdowns in April, over half of the small businesses in the Empire State shut their doors.

Nearly one third of small businesses in New York and New Jersey remain closed since January, according to a database that tracks the impact of the pandemic.