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Better-than-expected corporate earnings growth helped fuel the market’s rise this year and kept the indexes climbing to new highs.

Major corporations were hopeful employees could return early next year but the variant is pushing those dates back – or dashing them altogether.

The bonuses, which come in the form of stock grants that vest over four years, are part of an escalating battle for engineers.

Our weekday evening look at the day's news from Santa Cruz and elsewhere.

California reported its highest single day total of COVID-19 hospitalizations in nearly three months and a nearly 14% increase from last week.

The highly contagious Omicron variant has spread worldwide, causing another big wave of COVID-19.

As the new variant spreads, businesses across California are rethinking timelines for bringing workers back into the office and scrambling to cope with lost productivity.

Matt Arnold just spent $5,000 to run help-wanted ads for his companys five trailer factories scattered from Pennsylvania to Utah. "We hired two from the ads," said Arnold, just a fraction of the 125 he needs to get back to full strength of 673 workers. Half the welding jobs at his Texas plant are open, for instance, creating a bottleneck in an operation that builds trailers on metal frames. U.S. manufacturers have long grumbled about labor shortages, but the past year has proven particularly fr...