Government And Institutions

California has proposed closing by October up to 140 oil-field wells that state regulators had allowed to inject into federally protected drinking water aquifers, state officials said.

An attorney for Rhode Island's Public Utilities Commission is warning lawmakers that setting a limit on how much electricity rates can rise could result in even higher bills for consumers.

With all the noise and uncertainty surrounding Greece over the past couple of weeks, it's been easy to overlook the growing signs of economic recovery in Europe.

Gov. Rick Snyder will ask Michigan lawmakers for a 75 percent increase in funding for skilled trades training and career technical education in his budget proposal for the new fiscal year.

The Republican-controlled Congress is planning a vote to repeal a National Labor Relations Board rule that revised procedures covering union representation elections.

If you're a billionaire living in Connecticut, chances are the tax department is keeping an eye on you.

President Barack Obama's push for trade deals with Asia and Europe has angered organized labor, setting up a tense fight with a key element of his voting coalition.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is unveiling a $77.7 billion preliminary budget that reflects a relatively strong local economy and doesn't include any major spending cuts, service reductions or layoffs of municipal workers in the nation's largest city.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction with rates on six-month bills reaching their highest level in over a month.

Hungary's prime minister says his country and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development are each seeking to acquire 15-percent stakes in the Hungarian affiliate of Austria's Erste Bank.

France's prime minister says the country's tax authorities have audited some 2,300 account holders named in once-secret papers that outlined how Britain's HSBC bank helped the wealthy dodge taxes.

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Southern California Edison said Monday that it has given notice to the California Public Utilities Commission of a conversation between executives from the two organizations about efforts to reopen a nuclear plant that was shut down a short time later.

Work could start in a little more than three years on a central Idaho mine containing as much as 4 million ounces of recoverable gold, a mining company official says.

The high cost of two major lawsuits against the state are complicating the next state budget, and it's not the first time that's happened.

Greece's prime minister has presented his newly-elected government's policy statement to lawmakers, proclaiming an end to the era of austerity and "five years of bailout barbarity." Insisting on a "bridge agreement" that would give Greece and its creditors time to negotiate a new debt deal much more favorable to the country by June, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appeared to insist on an approach that got short shrift from EU partners in a series of meeting that Tsipras himself, and his finance ministers, had with European officials this past week.

Spending for the Department of Homeland Security hangs in the balance as Congress fights over immigration matters in the agency's annual funding bill.

Insurers aren't required to encrypt consumers' data under a 1990s federal law that remains the foundation for health care privacy in the Internet age — an omission that seems striking in light of the major cyberattack against Anthem.

The United States wants to speed up talks on a vast trans-Atlantic trade pact with the European Union.

U.S. stocks advanced modestly in early trading Friday, adding to the mammoth gains already posted this week, as investors cheered data that showed employers hired more Americans and employee wages are growing.