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A new study suggests that offering paid sick leave might reduce the rate of nonfatal injury among workers and improve the bottom line at the same time.

The king-salmon population is crashing in Alaska, a disastrous development that is rippling through the state's tourism-dependent economy.

The impact on India's economy goes far beyond lost output. The blackout will badly damage the country's reputation, and highlights the rotten infrastructure that is hobbling its efforts to catch up with China.

The government's consumer finance watchdog is investigating deals that transferred billions in premiums charged to mortgage borrowers from mortgage-insurance companies to the banks that made the loans.

The U.S. grid is aging and stretched to capacity. More often the victim of decrepitude than the forces of nature, it is beginning to falter and may have caused blackouts in New York, Boston and San Diego.

Penn State University has enough insurance coverage to deal with lawsuits that might result from its child sexual abuse scandal, President Rodney Erickson said.

About one in 10 employers plans to end workers' health insurance as the new health care law takes effect, according to a new study.

Up to a million gallons of raw sewage is pumped into the sea around Bermuda each day, according to a blueprint for a greener Bermuda published yesterday.

As gas drilling expands across Pennsylvania and into neighboring states, the insurance industry is trading memos expressing trepidation and uncertainty over how to assess the risk involved in covering the controversial development.

The city of Miami may face civil fraud charges for allegedly misleading investors about its financial health when it sold millions of dollars in municipal bonds, the Securities and Exchange Commission warned.

Family members of those killed and survivors of the shooting at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater may find it difficult to pursue civil liability claims tied to the attack, which resulted in 12 dead and 58 injured.

The NYPD is stepping up security at city theaters showing "The Dark Knight Rises" as a precaution in the wake of a mass shooting at a movie theater in suburban Colorado that killed at least a dozen people and left scores of others wounded.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced new flexibility and assistance in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's major conservation programs to get much-needed help to livestock producers as the most wide-spread drought in seven decades intensifies in the United States.

The Food and Drug Administration, overriding the advice of an expert panel, said Monday that it would not require doctors to have special training before they could prescribe long-acting narcotic painkillers that can lead to addiction.