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We're excited about a brand new personal finance TV show premiering tonight on CNBC! Catch On the Money tonight at 8:00 pm EST or 5:00 pm PST. The show will air at that time five days a week.

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin is combining some of its Sunday personal finance coverage with other advice content to create a new section called Kokua, writes editor Frank Bridgewater. Bridgewater writes, “Got a problem? Not sure whether to buy that annuity?[...]

By Globe Staff State Senator Dianne Wilkerson has agreed to pay a $10,000 fine as part of a settlement with the attorney general's office in which the Boston lawmaker admitted violating campaign finance laws for five years. Senator Dianne Wilkerson Wilkerson,[...]

The Q1-2008 MQ and Q2-2008 MQ saw some good traffic and excitement and the idea has had a lot of publicity and interest generated with a healthy dose of new entries from folks wanting to get in. I figured out a more in depth way to go about evaluating[...]

The results are in and I know quite a few of you are excited! And the winners are… (Drumroll please) Top Score - BlackBerry OtterBox (www.OtterBox.com) cphmediaman Runner Up - SplashMoney Personal Finance Manager (www.SplashData.com) Crackberryphill matt[...]

As part of our Sunday personal finance coverage, here's a sampling of online questions and answers looking at estate planning from our "Ask the Experts" forum. TRUDY NEARN An attorney, she specializes in wills, trusts and estate planning.

Ron Lieber joined the New York Times in May as its personal finance columnist after being the managing editor of FiLife, a personal finance Web site that is a joint venture between Dow Jones & Co. and IAC/Interactive. Before that, Lieber wrote the “Green[...]

Note from Rachel - I've known Lauren and Emira via email/the internet since way back in the days of their site Soapboxgirls, and was thrilled to see they'd written The Boss of You. I've read about half of it so far (not because it's not good, I'm just[...]

Our personal finance contributor discusses how to resolve the reverse mortgage of someone who has died, whether to buy a home while living off student loans and how to prioritize debt.

KIRKLAND, Wash. — Kiplinger’s Retirement Planning 2008, published in the Fall issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, includes this advice for seekers of long term care insurance: “TIP - For help finding a policy, check out LTC Financial Partners[...]