Industrials

The State Land Board has approved selling the Elliott State Forest to a buyer who will agree to restrictive conditions: pay a fair market price, conserve older trees, protect threatened fish and wildlife, produce logs for local mills, and leave it open to the public.

Wyoming brought out the big guns for Thursday's hearing in Gillette on whether to charge coal companies more to mine on federal lands.

The government says pilot reports of drone sightings so far this year are more than double last year.

The transit network in the nation's capital remained hobbled Tuesday morning following an electrical malfunction that filled a busy subway station with smoke, killing one woman and sending dozens of people to hospitals.

Investigators trying to figure out why AirAsia Flight 8501 crashed into the Java Sea on Dec. 28 might now have the tools they need to provide answers.

All that would peek above the ocean waves off New York and New Jersey would be two small buoys tethered to underwater pipes.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Hertz Global Holdings Inc., down 62 cents to $16.50 The rental car company, which is working to cut costs, said that its profit and revenue fell during the second quarter.

For six and a half years, the White House has had a quick comeback to questions about its yet-to-be-announced decision on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline: Talk to the State Department.

SpaceX will try again Saturday to launch a load of groceries and other supplies to the International Space Station.

California's high-speed rail project promises to reduce the Los Angeles to San Francisco trip to less than three hours.

Spanish train drivers have called four days of strikes in September following a breakdown in talks with state rail company Renfe over staffing and working conditions agreements.

If you get on a Spirit Airlines flight, there's a 50-50 chance that your flight will be late.

In a bid to create momentum for a massive overhaul of the crumbling passenger rail corridor between New Jersey and New York City, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer on Tuesday proposed the creation of a new nonprofit development corporation to plan and finance the project.

Southwest Airlines Co. said Tuesday that passenger traffic rose in July over the same month last year, but the carrier predicted that a key revenue figure will drop 1 percent in the third quarter, an indication of lower average prices.

Passengers are flying more and empty seats are even harder to find on American Airlines and US Airways.

United Airlines said Monday that passengers flew more miles and left fewer seats empty last month than in July 2014.

The heart of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway lies in insurance and finance, but a string of massive industrial deals have shifted the balance of the conglomerate's holdings toward industrial and manufacturing firms.

Two people died and eight people were missing Monday after an eight-story residential building collapsed in Kenya's capital, officials said.

An unusual home taking shape inside General Motors' Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant is intended to be part of a movement to rebuild Detroit's economy and deteriorating housing stock.

The United States imposed fresh sanctions on North Korea on Friday in its first public act of retribution for a crippling cyberattack against Sony.