Industrials

It took $817 million, two starts, more than six years and one worker's life to drill a so-called "Third Straw" to make sure glittery casinos and sprawling suburbs of Las Vegas can keep getting drinking water from near the bottom of drought-stricken Lake Mead.

Three villages in Long Island's Hamptons region are looking to slow down, or even stop, a growing trend of constructing ever-larger homes on small plots of real estate.

Footwear company New Balance says the military has been slow to deliver on its promise to outfit recruits in sneakers 100 percent made and manufactured in America.

Southwest Airlines says it has a tentative contract agreement with the union representing its flight attendants.

Missouri utility regulators on Wednesday denied a company's request to construct a high-voltage power line in Missouri that was planned for a multistate wind energy project.

Hundreds of Milwaukee County union bus drivers went on strike early Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of commuters scrambling to make alternative plans to get to work and elsewhere.

Of countless ghostly abandoned factories and mines in Japan, this fortress island near Nagasaki is among the most notorious.

An Oklahoma woman can pursue a jury trial after she was injured when her fireplace crumbled in an earthquake she claims was caused by saltwater waste pumped into the ground, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE MBIA Inc., down $1.95 to $6.37 The financial guarantee insurance company's shares fell as Puerto Rico's governor warns that the island can't pay its $72 billion public debt.

Cisco said Tuesday that it plans to buy privately-held OpenDNS for $635 million to boost its network security business.

Investment firm Blackstone is selling the security services company AlliedBarton to French investment firm Wendel SE for about $1.67 billion AlliedBarton, based in Philadelphia, has more than 3,300 customers and more than 60,000 workers.

Duke Energy Corp. CEO Lynn Good is getting a raise a year after the country's largest electric company confronted a coal ash spill that coated 70 miles of a North Carolina river in sludge containing toxic heavy metals.

A rocket's dead, blown to bits in public view.

European regulators have cleared Siemens' $7.6 billion acquisition of the U.S. oilfield equipment maker Dresser-Rand.

Travelers easily whiz from city to city on high-speed trains in many parts of South America, Asia and Europe.

Eight cruise ship passengers and their pilot died on a sightseeing excursion in Alaska when their small plane crashed in remote and rugged terrain.

Shares of Micron Technology tumbled 18 percent Friday, hitting levels not seen in more than a year as demand for PCs continues to fade.

Urban planners have long considered public transportation the best remedy for traffic congestion, but many of the nation's largest mass-transit systems simply aren't up to the task.

A slight majority of Americans prefer living in a single-family house in the suburbs or a rural area with more land, even if it means driving long distances to get to work or run errands, according to a poll by The Associated Press-GfK.

Chipmaker Integrated Silicon Solution Inc. said Friday that its board has decided that Cypress Semiconductor Corp.'s revised buyout offer is not superior to the approximately $738.3 million deal it already has in place with Uphill Investment Co.