Government And Institutions

The annual battle over education spending in New York is taking shape, with divvying up the state's $5 billion windfall from bank settlements among the issues to watch.

As a Mexican-American woman who started her own consulting firm in Los Angeles, accountant Sonia Luna has taken advantage of programs aimed at helping minority- and women-owned businesses compete for government and corporate contracts.

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More than five dozen giant turbines erected on a remote mesa in western New Mexico began churning out power for the state's largest electric provider on New Year's Day.

A year into the nation's experiment with legal, taxed marijuana sales, Washington and Colorado find themselves wrestling not with the federal interference many feared, but with competition from medical marijuana or even outright black market sales.

To see the tax implications of legalizing marijuana in Colorado, there's no better place to start than an empty plot of land on a busy thoroughfare near downtown Denver.

The first 50-state report on the latest sign-up season under President Barack Obama's health care law shows that more than 4 million people selected plans for the first time or re-enrolled.

Small business owners may get more help from Washington in 2015.

Rita Diaz works two minimum-wage jobs, one at a restaurant and the other at a clothing store, to pay the bills and help support her parents and seven younger brothers.

It was supposed to force millionaires to pay tax rates of up to 75 percent: "Cuba without the sun," as described by a critic from the banking industry.

The U.S. Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week.

Most Americans favor labeling calories on menus in fast food and sit-down restaurants.

Sen. Michael Bennet's office on Tuesday said the Democrat will reintroduce a bill to limit energy exploration in an area south of Glenwood Springs.

The first 50-state report on the latest sign-up season under President Barack Obama's health care law shows more than 4 million people signed up for the first time or re-enrolled.

The number of Ohioans enrolling in Medicaid under an expansion of the taxpayer-funded program has topped state projections during the first year.

Keeping schools and social services funded.

A tax deal touted by New York to lure new business has netted at least one Connecticut company.

The Business Council of New York State is suggesting state leaders resolve in 2015 to keep limiting state budget growth to 2 percent annually and make permanent a property tax cap.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in Monday's auction, after rising last week.

New York officials say 13 more businesses have agreed to expand or locate to tax-free zones sponsored by colleges and universities while committing to bring new jobs.