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The candidates from Vermont’s four major parties running for governor met Tuesday evening to debate.Democratic incumbent Governor Peter Shumlin,…

Pittsfield voters propelled City Clerk Linda Tyer to a resounding victory over Mayor Dan Bianchi Tuesday. An exuberant crowd of supporters welcomed Tyer…

Plans to move migrants from New York City to upstate areas have been met with widespread opposition and a number of questions. On Tuesday, Albany County Executive Dan McCoy issued a state of emergency and an emergency order relating to the resettlement of migrants.

With more extreme rain expected for California, the Bay Area's Russian River is expected to flood again. KQED's Danielle Venton reports on how people there are preparing.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court could soon vote to legalize abortion and end gerrymandering now that Janet Protasiewicz, backed by Democrats, has defeated GOP-backed Dan Kelly for a seat on the bench.

People buy and sell memorable domain names, like tv.com or cool.com, sometimes for millions of dollars. Planet Money explores why one premium domain — milk.com — is curiously undeveloped.

Job growth plummeted in March after several months of solid growth, with employers adding just 88,000 new workers to their payrolls. No one knows exactly why the job market stalled, but among the theories is the payroll tax increase, the sequester, more trouble in Europe and a seasonal pattern where hiring picks up in winter and tails off during the spring.

Tons of green energy projects, both wind and solar, want to connect to the grid. But they're running into a surprising obstacle.

A jury ordered two big agricultural companies to pay a peach farmer in Missouri $265 million in damages. At issue is an herbicide that is known to drift from where it's sprayed.

The price of oil is up on news that four major producers are talking about freezing production at January levels. Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela and Qatar want to limit production to see if they can put a floor under oil prices and maybe move them up. But they will need cooperation from Iran and Iraq, which will be hard to achieve.