Golden eagles are the latest roadblock to establishing wind farms on federally owned land.

After weathering the fear of federal prosecution and competition from drug cartels, California's medical marijuana growers see a new threat to their tenuous existence: the "Wal-Marting" of weed.

The pile of phone books has been an annual rite of summer, despite their increasing obsolescence in the face of the Internet and other easy-to-access directories.

You'll have to put down that cell phone while driving but you can still smoke with your children in the car. Take a look at what the House and Senate did -- and didn't do -- this session to impact your life.

Senate Republicans blocked a proposal Tuesday to tax the windfall profits of the largest oil companies, despite pleas by Democratic leaders to use the measure to address America's anger over $4 a gallon gasoline.

The struggle to keep soaring medical costs in check is feeding an increase in state programs that collect unused prescription drugs to give away to the uninsured and poor.

The following is a text of the speech Portland mayor Tom Potter is expected to deliver in his "State of the City" address on Friday. It was sent to local media organizations by city officials.

Masked demonstrators showered police with grapefruit-sized rocks and beer bottles, then were driven back with water cannon and tear gas during a protest march Saturday against the upcoming Group of Eight summit in Germany.

"Plug-in" hybrids aren't yet cost-efficient, but some of the dozen known experimental models have gotten up to 250 mpg.