Government And Institutions

Connecticut Light and Power's request to raise consumer costs by a total of $230 million should be cut nearly in half, state regulators said Monday.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it is investigating whether Graco took too long to report a safety defect in its child car seats.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction with rates on three-month bills climbing to their highest level since August and six-month rates reaching their highest level since March.

An advisory board on Monday recommended increasing the Massachusetts governor's total pay by nearly $100,000 a year while also giving sizable raises to other officials, including a 71 percent hike for legislative leaders.

State regulators told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday that new federal goals for reducing mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from power plants are unachievable, costly and based on flawed assumptions.

The National Labor Relations Board has upheld a ruling that Mercedes violated federal labor laws by stopping United Auto Workers union supporters from handing out literature inside its Alabama plant.

Legislation laying out rules for big failing banks that enter bankruptcy proceedings has advanced in Congress as lawmakers still grapple with the aftermath of the financial crisis.

House Republicans are moving to pass a one-year extension of temporary tax breaks affecting millions of businesses and individuals.

Gov. Rick Snyder is stepping up pressure on lawmakers to boost Michigan's fuel taxes to raise $1.4 billion to improve roads and bridges.

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A proposed pipeline that would deliver natural gas to the Southeast would provide more than $25 million in annual local property taxes, according to estimates from energy provider Dominion Resources Inc.

Voters in Switzerland have begun casting their ballots in a referendum over whether to protect the country's wealth by investing in gold.

Puerto Rico's governor said late Sunday that lawmakers have reached a last-minute agreement on a proposed oil tax increase and that public transportation will not be paralyzed as previously planned.

Like a student who waited until the night before a deadline, lawmakers resuming work Monday will try to cram two years of leftover business into two weeks, while also seeking to avoid a government shutdown.

As the first municipal fracking ban in Texas takes effect, its passage has spurred other towns to consider similar challenges to the supremacy of the state's oil and gas industry.

Ridesharing companies such as Uber are riding high in Arizona at the risk of defying state law, the Arizona Capitol Times reported (http://bit.ly/1uWHPqC).

Peggy Young only has to look at her 7-year-old daughter to be reminded how long she's been fighting with United Parcel Service over its treatment of pregnant employees — and why.

A California real estate investor wants the state of Montana to lower his property tax bill by reducing the assessed value of a home he built on an island in Flathead Lake from $41.8 million to $9.8 million.

Ohio's lawmakers are moving toward taking on the algae that has plagued Lake Erie in recent years.

Alaska lawmakers, legislative staff and gas-line consultants attended private meetings and signed confidentiality agreements about the Alaska Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project.