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Right-to-repair laws protect your ability to choose where to get your electronics or car repaired without having to go to the original manufacturer. Here’s what you need to know.

Laws protecting consumers’ ability to seek out independent repairs for their appliances are spreading across the United States.

Many families have been having a tough time finding affordable eggs at the grocery store. Now, federal officials say they’re intercepting a growing number of eggs at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Climate impacts can increase the prevalence of diseases in coffee crops, reducing overall yields for farmers. Studies have shown that the arabica bean is particularly vulnerable to climate change.

Egg prices hit a record high as the U.S. contends with an ongoing bird flu outbreak. Here’s how much a dozen Grade A eggs costs.

Not only are eggs expensive because of the ongoing bird flu outbreak. Now they are sometimes hard to find.

The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down the agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal.

The Better Business Bureau (BBB) issued a warning to consumers on Thursday following the growing prominence of a potential phone scam — many involving calls from someone named Jessica.

The number might surprise you: Every year, an estimated six to 12 million children get head lice. As is often the case, when kids get something, parents do as well, and that’s true for lice and that brings lots of questions about missed school and work; the answers are not always clear. Consumer Reports is here with important information to...

The difference in the price of eggs from just three years ago is staggering, some bakers say. NBC 5’s Larry Collins tells us more. 

Here’s what experts say about the possible closure of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

If you want to hang out or use the restroom at Starbucks, you’re going to have to buy something. Starbucks on Monday said it was reversing a long-standing policy that invited everyone into its stores.

NBC 5’s Alanna Quillen has tips to navigate those post-holiday returns, refunds and exchanges!

The Better Business Bureau released its “Naughty List” of holiday scams for 2024.

With less than a week until Christmas and local law enforcement, the FBI and the Better Business Bureau are sounding the alarm about holiday season scams.

The price of arabica coffee beans is up 70% this year due to droughts, frost, floods, high temperatures, say experts.

You may not be the only one waiting for your Cyber Monday packages to arrive. NBC 5’s Meredith Yeomans has tips for protecting your packages.

DFW ranked eighth worst for package thefts, according to Safewise.com.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is weighing which proposed rules on its agenda to finalize before the end of the Biden administration.

The AirTag said the checked bag was inside the airport, but United Airlines said it couldn’t find it. The bag later traveled 30 miles away.