These areas are ranked using Regional Price Parities, which “measure the differences in the price levels of goods and services across states and metropolitan areas for a given year.”

Prepare to say goodbye to some fishy friends. Because of ongoing renovations at the U.S. Commerce Department’s headquarters at 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, the National Aquarium is getting the boot.

U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson resigned today, only 10 days after he was cited in a hit-and-run incident in Los Angeles that he blamed on a seizure.

U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson has been charged with two felony hit-and-run incidents in Los Angeles over the weekend.

Happy Friday, folks; may this day be the start of a fantastic, 80-degree yet cloudy weekend. On that note, who loses 1,137 laptops? It seems that, having announced the missing laptops Thursday night, only the Commerce Department is capable of such feats. NBC 4 tells us that since 2001, the laptops, 672 of which belonged to the Census Bureau, have vanished. Says Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez. “The amount of missing computers is high, but…