With the federal minimum wage—$7.25 per hour—unchanged for the past 16 years, many states and cities have taken independent action to address rising housing, food and health care costs. According to ...
A U.S. House committee voted Wednesday to approve a plan to provide $42 billion in assistance to transportation sectors and workers as part of a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan, while another ...
Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday proposed spending $14 billion to shore up a trust fund that pays for airport improvements and air traffic control operations, as well as to ...
Deep in Sierra County, California, Forest City stands as one of the state’s last living Gold Rush ghost towns, home to just four residents.
A nearly five-mile stretch of U.S. 70 near Wilson’s Mills has been converted to a limited-access freeway and will soon have a ...
Detours will be in place until the project is complete in 2027. Access to and from northbound I-25 will be open.
Get rich quick schemes, Florida Bust, these are the towns that once bustled, then disappeared from Palm Beach County.
A wave of state-level increases will lift minimum wages in many parts of the United States in 2026, affecting workers from ...
Opinion

Is 20 really plenty?

"When I begin this conversation with a lot of people, before I get into the meat of it, they're going, 'Oh my God, we're going to, you know, purchase $5,000 new street signs and so I'm not going to be ...
October’s here and so are pumpkin patches. With Halloween a few weeks away, they’ve popped up across the Inland Empire, from ...
To shield the forest and its communities from the next megafire, the Forest Service plans to burn it — intentionally.
Read the first in a three-part series on the real story of the “rooftop robber” who held NC McDonald’s employees at gunpoint ...