A stream of anxious homeowners and government officials from Miami Beach to Tallahassee paraded before a Senate committee Tuesday, urging lawmakers to reject a plan to preempt the ability of...
February 11, 2020
The South Dakota House passed a proposal Tuesday to a legalize and regulate the growth, processing and transportation of industrial hemp in the state. Legislators didn't even debate the bill...
February 11, 2020
Dominion Energy announced Tuesday that it will aim to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, an acceleration of the goals the company had previously pledged to meet. The...
February 11, 2020
Clovis' public water utility has decommissioned some drinking water wells after finding traces of a cancer-causing pollutant. According to the New Mexico Environment Department, the company in charge of Clovis'...
February 11, 2020
New Hampshire Democrats headed into Tuesday's primary with a focus on matters of fairness, with just over 1 in 10 saying they were “very confident” that their party's process for...
February 11, 2020
The Mississippi State Port Authority is receiving a $15.8 million federal grant to improve highway access to the Port of Gulfport. Members of the state's congressional delegation announced the grant...
February 11, 2020
Missouri legislators debated a measure Tuesday that would ban public colleges and universities from offering in-state tuition to students living in the U.S. illegally. Schools in the state now risk...
February 11, 2020
Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially on Tuesday: Sprint Corp., up $3.72 to $8.52 A federal judge's ruling removed an obstacle to the wireless company's $26.5 billion acquisition by...
February 11, 2020
As some education leaders accused him of reneging on a campaign promise, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Tuesday he remains committed to raising Louisiana's public school teacher salaries to the...
February 11, 2020
A bill that would allow more families to qualify for a child care subsidy as they transition out of poverty won first-round approval Tuesday from Nebraska lawmakers. Senators advanced the...
February 11, 2020
A former North Carolina NAACP leader accused of sexually harassing an employee has issued a statement denying the allegations, saying a lawsuit brought by the woman is “"baseless." The Rev....
February 11, 2020
Gabe Kapler's bright orange shoes stood out in a room decorated with blackboards, a black standing work desk on which sat a dark laptop and speakers, gray interior wall paint,...
February 11, 2020
Ride-hailing service Lyft's annual loss more than doubled last year to over $2.6 billion, but the company claimed progress as revenue jumped 68% and ridership grew. The San Francisco company...
February 11, 2020
Five years ago, Manchester resident Azaria Drakeford began eating a diet of just plant-based food, but she quickly found herself in a bit of a dilemma. “I was trying to...
February 11, 2020
Officials are warning of online dating service scams after an Oregon man lost money believing he was entering a personal and business relationship with a person posing as a Florida...
February 11, 2020
President Donald Trump's budget proposal includes funding for two destroyers like those built at Bath Iron Works in the upcoming year but would slash the number of destroyers built in...
February 11, 2020
Atlantic City's Democratic Party is seeking to block a special election next month on whether to eliminate an elected mayor in favor of an appointed city manager, alleging canvassers forged...
February 11, 2020
President Nayib Bukele said Tuesday he will obey a Supreme Court order that he stop pressuring lawmakers to approve a $109 million loan he's seeking to bolster El Salvador's fight...
February 11, 2020
This tax season is Alaina Vermilya's second year as a tax preparer, and she's worked to become adept at sorting through clients' documents, working through extensive questionnaires and scoring the...
February 11, 2020
A Senate committee gave full support Tuesday to a proposed law that would require South Dakota businesses to accept tribal IDs as proof of identity and age. State law already...
February 11, 2020
Steve Duprey's newest downtown project is bringing back something old. The Concord developer plans to begin a renovation of the former Monitor Statesman Building at 10 Pleasant St., Extension this...
February 11, 2020
Wheat for Mar. declined 10 cents at 5.42 a bushel; Mar. corn was off 2 cents at 3.7975 a bushel, Mar. oats fell 2.50 cents at $2.9925 a bushel; while...
February 11, 2020
Mississippi senators clashed Tuesday before passing a bill to let the state auditor see tax returns to verify the income of people enrolled in Medicaid or other public assistance programs....
February 11, 2020
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is launching a new program to encourage anglers to switch to lead-free fishing equipment as a way to save the state bird, the loon. The...
February 11, 2020
A bill to impose an excise tax on vaping products cleared a Kentucky House committee Tuesday. The bill also would raise existing taxes on tobacco products other than cigarettes. The...
February 11, 2020
As jail populations continue to plummet in the state, New York's governor is proposing to allow counties to opt into regional lockups instead of solely operating their own facility. The...
February 11, 2020
The son of the founder of a North Carolina accounting firm spent $500,000 of the company's money on travel, limousines, alimony and at a strip club, according to a lawsuit...
February 11, 2020
The new coronavirus is wreaking havoc on cruises in Asia, where some passengers are stranded aboard ships and others can't leave China. Japan's health ministry has confirmed 135 cases of...
February 11, 2020
Tenet Healthcare Corporation and its Southern California hospital Desert Regional Medical Center will pay $1.41 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly charged Medicare for implanting unnecessary cardiac monitors in...
February 11, 2020
The Republican-led Michigan Senate on Tuesday approved additional tax breaks for a major Grand Rapids-area data center, sending the bill to Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Las Vegas-based Switch opened a...
February 11, 2020
Three years after the opening of the Smithsonian's landmark Museum of African American History and Culture, momentum is building toward the creation of a museum dedicated to American women's history....
February 11, 2020
Legislation aimed at reducing property taxes drew so many people wanting to speak that a House panel ran out of time Tuesday and delayed voting. The House Revenue and Taxation...
February 11, 2020
Days before the Iowa caucuses, Democratic Party activist Lindsey Ellickson prepared to run her Cedar Rapids precinct by downloading the new smartphone app designed to calculate and report results. But...
February 11, 2020
As debate rages around “American Dirt,” the bestselling novel criticized for its portrait of Mexican life and culture, publishers are pledging to change a historically white industry as critics question...
February 11, 2020
A Washington state agency can collect its intended property tax to pay for emergency dispatching services after a typographical error in a levy ballot measure lowered the amount, a judge...
February 11, 2020
North Dakota's oil production may peak within five years as companies finish drilling the most prolific portions of the state's oil patch, state and industry officials told lawmakers Tuesday. Mineral...
February 11, 2020
Despite Trump's impeachment victory, the US is entering into an ideological civil war, because the real conflict is not between the Democrats and the Republicans, but within each of those...
February 11, 2020
Canadian National Railway Co. said Tuesday it will be forced to close significant parts of its Canadian network unless protest blockades impeding its rail lines are removed. CN said more...
February 11, 2020
A federal judge has ordered Gov. Kevin Stitt and Native American tribes to mediate their months-long dispute over the gambling compacts that give tribes the exclusive right to operate casinos...
February 11, 2020
NCAA President Mark Emmert urged Congress to step in and put restrictions on college athletes' ability to earn money from endorsements, telling a Senate committee Tuesday that federal action was...
