ANGELA J. CESERE / Union-Tribune Brent Takemiya of Rancho Peñasquitos carried his green tea frozen yogurt, topped with mango, out of Pinkberry on Fifth Avenue in downtown San Diego yesterday morning. The store had its grand opening yesterday.

Dubbed “Crackberry” by its fanatical fans, frozen yogurt icon Pinkberry yesterday opened its first location in San Diego at downtown's Hard Rock Hotel.

An Arizona startup company yesterday asked government regulators for approval to build a massive solar energy power plant that proponents say is crucial to San Diego Gas & Electric's proposed Sunrise Powerlink.

DES MOINES, Iowa – Midwest floods may not contribute as much to food inflation as was feared. Corn prices fell yesterday after the government surprised traders, reporting farmers tried to cash in on soaring corn demand for ethanol by planting more acres of the crop than the market expected.

Tesla Motors, aiming to be the first high-volume electric-car maker, will open a California factory to produce battery-powered sedans in 2010, abandoning an earlier plan to assemble the model in New Mexico.

PARIS – EBay said it would appeal a French court's order that it pay 38.6 million euros ($60.8 million) in damages to the French luxury goods company LVMH, the latest round in a long-running legal battle over the sale of counterfeit goods on the Internet.