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There is little doubt that the 2015-2016 state legislative sessions will be an ongoing challenge for voting rights across the country, but once again the League of Women Voters …

In addition to causing tremendous, potentially irreversible environmental damage, the $50 billion dollar canal project would displace thousands of indigenous peoples.

Like many immigrant families, that of Iris Sebastian (a pseudonym) has long played a precarious financial balancing game.

In an ironic twist, Maryland has killed the death penalty a little sooner than anticipated.

In today's On the News segment: Half of all the states in our nation now have a minimum wage that is higher than the federal minimum, and more.

Even though she had learned to put the disrespect behind her, she admitted it wasn't easy to forget, even though it wasn't a big deal in her life.

In the fourth winter since the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, many of the displaced residents are still in limbo.

When New Jersey bailed out some of its tobacco bonds, the state gave up $400 million in future revenues to pocket $92 million immediately.

The Quechua Indians are worried about threats to their potato crops from alterations in rainfall patterns and temperatures.

Fed officials did not accept a conclusion that had been endorsed by frontline Fed examiners stationed at some of the nation's largest banks.