Citing concerns about hiring practices at California’s second-largest utility, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators Thursday asked for an investigation into whether companies are firing American workers and replacing them with foreigners to cut costs.

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Given the recent recovery of home valuations, is it a good idea to finance a startup with home equity funds?

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A nine-year legal battle waged by former aircraft workers who claim they lost their jobs because of their age may to have come to an end after a federal judge blocked their attorney from appealing the court’s dismissal of their remaining claims because the paperwork was filed too late.

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California’s top utility regulator is asking if the state’s largest utility is too big for safety.

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An analysis by the New York City’s comptroller has concluded the city’s pension funds over the past 10 years paid over $2 billion in fees to money managers but got almost nothing in return.

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Several members of Congress are heading to the mothballed site of a proposed radioactive waste dump in the Nevada desert amid new talk about a decades-old problem — where to dispose of spent nuclear fuel stored at commercial reactors around the U.S.

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A bipartisan group of state senators rolled out a construction budget Wednesday that calls for $3.9 billion in capital spending over the next two years.

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Brazil’s lower house Wednesday started discussing a bill opposed by labor unions that would allow companies to outsource their entire labor force.

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A Houston-based oil company could have prevented a 28-year-old Alabama man’s death by properly maintaining the water hauling tank that exploded while he was working in it in North Dakota, federal safety investigators said Wednesday.

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Utah’s governor and a Latino community advocate called for answers Wednesday in a prison inmate’s death that occurred after dialysis providers failed to show up for his treatment.

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