Government And Institutions

Sign-up season for President Barack Obama's health care law doesn't start for another couple of months, but the next few days are crucial for hundreds of thousands of customers who risk losing financial aid when they renew for 2016.

Revelers arrived in cars sporting the American flag and wore clothes in red, white and blue as they celebrated the anniversary of Puerto Rico's pro-statehood political party with deafening salsa music and speeches.

Southern Co. is buying AGL Resources Inc. for approximately $7.93 billion, which will create the second-biggest utility company in the U.S. by customer base.

Battles over rooftop solar electricity in Western states emerged as a key topic during an annual green power conference hosted Monday by U.S. Sen. Harry Reid.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in Monday's auction with rates on three-month bills dropping to their lowest level since late July.

North Dakota regulators approved the ownership transfer Monday of an unfinished $300 million wind farm project in the southeastern part of the state to a Minneapolis utility.

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The on-going state budget stalemate means a 10-bed mental health crisis unit at New Hampshire Hospital won't open as planned this fall.

State and county officials are expected to announce Monday whether the world's largest outdoor retail show will stay in Salt Lake City or bolt for another city.

Students at two New Jersey state colleges will be arriving this fall to find that there's a little more town next to their campuses.

A suburban city near Louisville has filed for bankruptcy, crippled by an $11.4 million jury verdict in a dispute over land and money with a truck-driving school.

A review shows that a federal government analysis mistakenly determined that Arizona's health insurance co-op had gotten only 4 percent of its projected enrollment last year when the number was much higher.

Fewer people had jobs in Louisiana in July as employer payrolls shrank, but the unemployment rate fell again as even more people left the labor force.

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The city of Dover is suing New Hampshire over the state's cap on aid to schools, saying the limit violates a constitutional requirement that it fund an "adequate education" for every child.

The Washington Supreme Court has ruled that a voter-approved initiative to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in the city of SeaTac should apply to workers at the airport.

Federal and New York regulators have sued two companies that make loans against retirees' pensions, saying they deceived consumers about the high rates of the loans.

Massachusetts Senate President Stan Rosenberg is asking the University of Massachusetts to reconsider planned fee hikes.

A new poll finds that Americans strongly support government action to control prescription drug costs, regardless of their political affiliation.

The country's largest full-time Legislature will soon have to decide where it will get the money to pay thousands of employees and other costs as its surplus, once more than $300 million, is rapidly dwindling amid Pennsylvania's budget crisis.