SunEdison forges solar power deal with Irvine, Calif., school districtThe Irvine board of education on Wednesday approved a plan to work with MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. subsidiary SunEdison and privately held SPG Solar to install solar power systems at 21 district sites. The school district, which serves 27,000 students ...

Land market heats up again as homebuilders vie for property in promising marketsThe housing bust left homebuilders with plenty of red ink on their books as they walked away from swaths of land they no longer needed. But now homebuilders are on the hunt again, vying for choice parcels even ...

RIVERSIDE, California (Reuters) - On the surface, a glimmer of confidence is returning to the battered U.S. housing market, after more than three years of gut-wrenching defaults, price slumps and foreclosures. But investors and homeowners in California, the most populous U.S. state and a benchmark for housing across the ...