MICHAEL CASEY

Environmental leaders are gathering on Montreal to hammer out a framework they hope will help provide much-needed protection for the world's biodiversity.

Britain's Prince William appears to have taken the baton from his father and become a more vocal advocate about pollution and climate change.

Intel’s announcement of a $20 billion manufacturing operation bringing thousands of jobs to central Ohio has been greeted as an economic boon.

Nearly a decade after one of the country's deadliest disasters, families in the Philippines are still adjusting to their new reality.

Ballot measures to build more affordable housing and protect tenants from soaring rent increases were plentiful and fared well in last week’s midterm elections.

Hippos that are poached for their skin and teeth and sharks that are caught for their fins are up for protection at a United Nations wildlife conference.

Scores of turtle species are under threat from poaching.

Cities and counties across the country are pushing measures aimed at stabilizing or controlling rents at a time when housing prices are skyrocketing.

Homelessness is expected to be up when the federal government releases results from an annual count in coming months, the first full tally since the coronavirus pandemic began.

School districts around the country are starting to invest in programs aimed at addressing the mental health of teachers.

Investors are buying up mobile home parks across the country, leading to significant rent increases and complaints of neglect from residents.

Rising mortgage rates have combined with already high home prices to discourage would-be buyers.

Inflation is taking a toll on infrastructure projects across the U.S. Rising prices for materials such as asphalt, steel and iron pipes are driving up the costs to build roads, bridges, rail lines and water mains.

An inspector general’s report has found that most of the 10,000 smartphones purchased for a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs program during the pandemic went unused.

An Associated Press analysis has found a growing number of hazardous dams in poor condition across the U.S. The AP tallied more than 2,200 dams in poor or unsatisfactory condition that are rated as high hazard, meaning their failure likely would kill someone.

A debate is playing out across the country as the Treasury Department begins reallocating some of the $46.5 billion in rental assistance from places slow to spend to others that are running out of funds.

Chris Rock received several standing ovations before he told one joke at his first comedy show since Will Smith slapped him in the face onstage at the Oscars.

States and localities are increasingly tapping federal funds to help finance efforts to build more affordable housing, repair dilapidated units or reduce their homeless numbers.

The owner of a railway that runs up Mount Washington is proposing accommodations and a restaurant near the summit of New Hampshire's highest peak.

It's been one year since President Joe Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan.

The House has voted to award the only all-female, Black unit to serve in Europe during World War II with the Congressional Gold Medal.

The U.S. Treasury Department has concluded that more than 80% of the billions of dollars in federal rental assistance during the pandemic went to low-income tenants.

Rents have exploded across the country, causing many to fall behind on payments, dig deep into their savings or downsize to subpar units.

A growing number of landlords are taking federal rental assistance to cover months of back rent but still moving to evict tenants.

The Treasury Department says states and localities in November paid out the largest amount of rental assistance to cash-strapped tenants since the program began.

Hospitals across the U.S. are feeling the wrath of the omicron variant and getting thrown into disarray that is different from earlier COVID-19 surges.

“The Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown and his ex-wife have agreed to settle a lawsuit in which she alleged he led a secret life during their marriage that included several affairs.

Housing advocates say evictions are increasing around the country, several months after a federal moratorium was allowed to end.

The Treasury Department says several states and cities have exhausted their federal rental assistance in a sign that spending on a program aimed at averting evictions has picked up speed.

Unemployment agencies across the country were bombarded with fraudulent claims during the pandemic.

Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming says former President Donald Trump is at war “with the rule of law and the Constitution” and that GOP lawmakers who sit by silently are aiding his efforts.

In school board races around the country, activists are running against critical race theory.

Efforts to make school buses greener are gaining momentum thanks to billions of dollars in spending in the federal infrastructure plan.

Republicans in New Hampshire are struggling to contain a party wing that's promoting conspiracy views about the COVID-19 vaccine and pushing back against federal vaccine mandates.

The Treasury Department has announced plans to start reallocating rental assistance money in a bid to get more cash into the hands of families facing eviction.

The Treasury Department says there's been good progress in the distribution of rental assistance to help avert evictions.

Progressive lawmakers have introduced a bill that would reimpose a nationwide eviction moratorium that lapsed last month.

States have begun to ramp up the amount of rental assistance reaching tenants but there are still millions of families facing eviction who haven't gotten help.

Only 11% of the tens of billions of dollars in federal rent assistance meant to help tenants around the country avoid eviction has been distributed.

Landlords are fuming over the decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue a new eviction moratorium lasting until Oct. 3.

Documents in the New Hampshire criminal case of rocker Marilyn Manson allege that he spit and blew snot at a videographer during a 2019 concert.

President Joe Biden may have averted a flood of evictions and solved a growing political problem when his administration reinstated a temporary ban on evictions because of the COVID-19 crisis.

President Joe Biden may have averted a flood of evictions and solved a growing political problem when his administration reinstated a temporary ban on evictions because of the COVID-19 crisis.

After a federal eviction moratorium was allowed to lapse this weekend, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new moratorium Tuesday on evictions that would last until Oct. 3.

Tenants, who crowded housing courts amid concerns about a spike in evictions, have gotten a reprieve after the Biden administration announced an eviction ban that lapsed over the weekend would be extended 60 days in most of the country.

Landlords and tenants are rushing back to court and advocates are bracing for a wave of evictions following the end of the federal moratorium over the weekend.

The threat of widespread evictions during the coronavirus pandemic has inspired reforms to a U.S. system that has in the past offered few protections for tenants.

Tenants who are months behind on rent now face the end to a federal eviction moratorium Saturday.

Millions of Americans face being forced from their homes with the midnight Saturday expiration of a moratorium on evictions during the pandemic.

Families are starting to spend the money from the expanded child tax credit.