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NEEDLES -The U.S. Bureau of Land Management Needles Office is selling three types of America the Beautiful passes that allow enjoying government-owned land and national parks while saving money.
Spanish wind turbine maker Gamesa is laying off nearly 150 people from a western Pennsylvania plant.
A New Mexico State University researcher is using tree planting to help arid, impoverished regions in the Four Corners region and Africa.
Washington -- The White House is open for Christmas. A day after celebrating Thanksgiving, first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha received the official White House Christmas tree: an 18 1/2 -foot Douglas fir delivered from a farm in Shepherdstown, W.Va., by horse-drawn carriage.
Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign and six Indonesian demonstrators, an activist said.
This has been a year of soul-searching for Republicans, and with the party eager to rebuild, its Senate campaign chief finds himself in a pinch.
A Fargo company is seeking investors for a plant in northwestern North Dakota that would make diesel fuel to help run drilling rigs in the state's oil patch, but one oil industry official said it might be a risky business.
Oil prices dropped to near $74 a barrel Friday as Dubai's debt problems jolted world markets, raising concern about the prospects for global economic recovery.
FRIDAY, Nov. 27 (HealthDay News) -- The number of people with diabetes in the United States is expected to double over the next 25 years, a new study predicts.
FRIDAY, Nov. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Encouraging city dwellers to walk and bicycle instead of using cars would offer much greater public health benefits than increased used of low-emission vehicles, U.K. researchers have found.
An improved 2010 revenue forecast prompted an analyst to slightly increase his profit estimate for Deere & Co. Friday, although he warned that the farm equipment manufacturer could be hurt by reduced demand and the weak dollar.
Utah wants to remove about 50 million pounds of carp from Utah Lake to restore the ecological balance and help the endangered June sucker.
There are many reasons Japan's population is headed for a sharp decline, but one of them is that for working women giving birth usually spells the death of their careers.
Indonesia detained 14 mostly foreign Greenpeace activists Wednesday as they protested against a big pulp and paper company in this country known for its greenhouse gas emissions, the group said.
They are the true believers of the tannenbaum, crusaders of the Christmas tree. They shun the long lines and mall madness of Black Friday to trek out to neat rows of evergreens lining the fields at Massachusetts farms.
The administration of Governor Deval Patrick, in a sharp disagreement with Patrick’s handpicked Senate appointee, said yesterday that it would be a mistake for President Obama to grant US Senator Paul G. Kirk Jr.’s request to delay federal approval of the Cape Wind project.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Friday named the 26 people he wants to help him drive the EU's day-to-day agenda for the next five years, including nominees for new posts that reflect major shifts in policy priorities, notably climate issues.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Ely District is asking the public to provide input on a regional seed warehouse to be constructed north of Ely.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Ely District has announced in the Federal Register the availability of the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the One Nevada Line (ON Line) project.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and White Pine County travel management planning coalition are scheduled to meet at the BLM Ely District Office, 702 N. Industrial Way, in Ely, at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 1, to continue developing a travel management plan for south Steptoe Valley. The meeting is open to the public.
Lebanese artists flee a war and discover an audience eager to learn.
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