A judge in Idaho has overturned a federal directive to curtail environmental review and eliminate mandatory public comment periods concerning oil and gas leasing on some public lands. The U.S....
February 28, 2020
The state transportation department has contracted with a company to provide service to small southeast Alaska communities affected by a lack of state ferry service. The contract with Allen Marine...
February 28, 2020
A landslide in a city near the southern tip of the Alaska Panhandle demolished the back side of a grocery store. No one was injured early Thursday when the landslide...
February 28, 2020
A former Veterans Affairs employee in Colorado who pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for rigging federal contracts has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison....
February 28, 2020
Businesses and schools shut down Thursday after a main line from a plant that supplies water to about half of Houston burst open, submerging vehicles on a flooded freeway and...
February 28, 2020
The five men who were killed by a co-worker at a Milwaukee brewery include an electrician, a Navy veteran, a father of two small children, a fisherman and a grandfather...
February 28, 2020
The Wyoming House of Representatives advanced legislation to the Senate that would mandate crews of two persons or more on all class-one freight trains in the state. The vote Thursday...
February 28, 2020
Two former executives at a South Carolina utility lied repeatedly to regulators and investors about the progress of construction of two nuclear reactors taking hundreds of millions of dollars out...
February 28, 2020
Washington's campaign finance watchdog on Thursday rejected a settlement that its staff had negotiated with Facebook over charges the social media giant has repeatedly violated state campaign finance law. The...
February 28, 2020
NBC is giving three-year renewals to its drama series from veteran producer Dick Wolf, including the perennial “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” The pickups for the “Law & Order”...
February 27, 2020
A Senate bill that almost doubles the instructional hours of kindergarten classes required for school accreditation from 540 hours to 990 hours passed its final hurdle in the House Thursday...
February 27, 2020
The Trump administration moved Thursday on a water-recycling push it says could get good use out of more of the wastewater that industries, cities and farms spew out, including the...
February 27, 2020
Curt Flood's widow has a simple explanation for why her late husband, who is revered by players for sacrificing his career to advocate for free agency, has not been enshrined...
February 27, 2020
California power regulators slapped Pacific Gas and Electric with a $2.1 billion fine for igniting a series a deadly wildfires that landed the beleaguered utility in bankruptcy. The penalty adopted...
February 27, 2020
Election administrators from three Montana counties told lawmakers Thursday that a voter-passed referendum that limits who can drop off a person's absentee ballot is frustrating electors, suppressing votes and it...
February 27, 2020
Virginia lawmakers have given final approval to a measure that will make the state a full participant in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a multi-state carbon cap-and-trade program. The House...
February 27, 2020
The chief financial officer of a domestic violence nonprofit agency was given 15 weeks of paid time off two days before the fiscal year ended and immediately converted it into...
February 27, 2020
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker wants the state to spend $40 million to develop a river port in Cairo, where the Mississippi and Ohio rivers meet. Senate President Don Harmon filed...
February 27, 2020
Vaping inside restaurants, stores and other public buildings could soon be banned under a bill Nebraska lawmakers advanced Thursday. The measure moved through the first of three required votes, 31-2....
February 27, 2020
A state oversight commission has determined that an upstate New York judge should loose his job, saying he made sexist remarks and failed to report tens of thousands of dollars...
February 27, 2020
A Louisiana judge resigned Thursday after several people, including Gov. John Bel Edwards, called for her to step down for using racial slurs in angry text messages. State District Judge...
February 27, 2020
Frustrated Democrats again lambasted Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell Thursday as they marked a year of Senate inaction since the House passed landmark gun control legislation. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
February 27, 2020
Bowing to intense criticism, the author of a sweeping new California labor law now wants to amend the statute to eliminate any cap on the number of assignments freelance journalists...
February 27, 2020
A Lincoln-based judge on Wednesday blocked plans by a Grand Island horse track to install casino slot-like machines that would allow patrons to bet on previously run horse races. Lancaster...
February 27, 2020
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday he is submitting a $10 million supplemental budget to the legislature as he outlined preparations the state is making for the new coronavirus disease....
February 27, 2020
A lawsuit against a Massachusetts company that employed a pickup truck driver accused of causing a collision that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire will move forward, a judge ruled...
February 27, 2020
The Senate has passed a bill to provide $1 billion for small telecom providers to replace equipment made by China's Huawei and ZTE, sending the measure to President Donald Trump....
February 27, 2020
The owner of an award-winning organic dairy in Pennsylvania that abruptly closed its doors last fall pleaded guilty Thursday to running a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors of nearly $60...
February 27, 2020
Health officials confronted tough questions and doubts Thursday about testing to intercept the fast-spreading virus, with scrutiny focused on a four-day delay in screening an infected California woman despite her...
February 27, 2020
Glacier National Park officials are searching for a shuttle service operator in northwest Montana after ending a decade-long partnership with the Flathead County in December. The county provided free shuttle...
February 27, 2020
A lawsuit that a sexual assault survivor and his mother filed against the Boy Scouts of America was moved to federal court last week amid the organization filing for bankruptcy....
February 27, 2020
___ Stock market rout deepens on virus worries; indexes lose 4% NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank nearly 1,200 points Thursday, deepening a weeklong global market...
February 27, 2020
Stocks nosedived on Wall Street Thursday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down by nearly 1,200 points and deepening a weeklong global market rout. Bond prices soared again, sending the...
February 27, 2020
Minnesota's projected surplus has inched up over $1.5 billion, state budget officials said Thursday as they delivered an updated economic forecast that added fuel to the political maneuvering at the...
February 27, 2020
Three Georgia men helping to install a guardrail on Interstate 40 in North Carolina were killed when a box truck hit a construction truck, pushing the truck into them as...
February 27, 2020
The U.S. Department of Education said Thursday it found systemic failures in the University of Southern California's treatment of allegations of sexual abuse by a longtime campus gynecologist and ordered...
February 27, 2020
Kansas legislators are leaving their first big votes on the state's next annual budget, cutting income taxes and the medical use of marijuana to the second half of their annual...
February 27, 2020
The Alabama Senate gave final approval Thursday to legislation that would block cities from implementing new occupational taxes, setting up a potential legal fight with the city of Montgomery. Senators...
February 27, 2020
The foundation for Seattle's future NHL franchise continued to take shape Thursday as the team broke ground on its practice facility just a few miles from the arena it will...
February 27, 2020
Beyond Meat narrowed its losses in the fourth quarter as sales of its plant-based meat soared. The El Segundo, California-based company, which went public last year, said it lost $452,000...
