A key study in a series leading to licensing hearings for the long-stalled Yucca Mountain national nuclear waste dump in Nevada finds what the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is calling a small chance that radioactive contamination could get into the environment.

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California lawmakers are considering bills to draw the lines on where drones can fly in California skies and what limits they must abide by.

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A ship has arrived from China carrying a massive crane that will be used on Kodiak’s docks.

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Las Vegas can be many things to many people, but MGM Resorts International wants leaders and visitors from Japan to know its resorts are more than gambling hubs.

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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.

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Apple says it more than doubled the numbers of women, blacks and Hispanic workers hired in the last year, although that moved the needle only slightly in terms of improving the overall diversity of its workforce.

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The California agency that investigates workplace accidents has cited and fined ExxonMobil more than $560,000 for workplace safety and health violations following a probe into February’s explosion at a Los Angeles-area refinery.

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Prosecutors say more than 100 New York high school students and dozens more in Chicago, Houston and Nashville, Tennessee, have been cheated out of promised paychecks by a “scam” charity.

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Motorola Mobility says it’s cutting 500 jobs at its Chicago headquarters, about a quarter of its workforce.

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Coca-Cola said Thursday it named company veteran James Quincey as president and chief operating officer, creating a new No.

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