ECONOMY & MARKETS

The Dalton Highway is an essential corridor that serves the state’s vast oil fields, but a portion of the road is currently covered by 2 feet of water.

Legislators could not muster the higher-than-usual support needed to change laws approved by ballot initiative.

The upside-down world of drug pricing operates with relative immunity to typical economic forces.

Government priorities for reform include tax cuts and private funding for infrastructure projects, and another $40 billion in high-speed rail projects.

Few economists think Britain is at risk of Japanese-style entrenched price falls.

State Bill 339 has historic significance, but poses problems for Texas medical practitioners, who risk running afoul of federal law with every prescription.

U.S. prosecutors are said to be investigating high-ranking Venezuelan officials for possible cocaine trafficking.

The Service Employees International Union is calling for an Federal Trade Commission investigation into the franchise model.

Rising temperatures and less predictable rain patterns are hurting production of coffee and other cash crops, the Thomson Reuters Foundation found.

As Washington debates the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a report sheds light on past trade pacts' effects on labor standards.

Four major banks will reportedly enter historic guilty pleas. But when the Justice Department charges institutions, not individuals, paradoxes arise.

The U.S. investment bank cut its long-term oil price forecast and advised investors to sell shares in BP Plc and Norway's Statoil.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in South Korea for a two-day visit.

Real estate investment growth continued to slow in the first four months of 2015 to the lowest since May 2009.

At least a dozen Marines were injured and hospitalized in the Sunday morning incident at a Hawaii air base.

The death toll from two earthquakes in the country now stands at 8,583, Nepal's home ministry said on Sunday.

Companies are racing to become the industry leaders in data-mining software, ultraefficient lamps and water-sipping irrigation systems.

The U.S. Federal Reserve may struggle to justify its first interest-rate hike in almost a decade after a terrible first quarter when the economy most likely shrank.

Mongolia is seeking investment in infrastructure for the transport of its minerals as well as in generating energy.

Economic relations between the two Asian giants have improved over the past few years, but an unresolved border dispute remains a thorn.

May's reading was the largest point decline since December 2012.

The inspector general's report warned that failure to obtain radio frequency was delaying a safety system that might have prevented the derailment.

Greece has also agreed to privatize regional airports to attract investments at a time when its public finances are perilously low.

The accords are the latest sign of what officials in both countries have sought to portray as a new era in their bilateral relations.

In much of the world, support for passenger rail systems is a top political priority. But not in the United States, where cheap gas and car culture still reign.

As more major manufacturers relocate below the Mason-Dixon Line, they're confronting increased labor agitation.

Nigeria reported a drop in economic growth this quarter, and it's not just because of Boko Haram.

Canada's finance minister threw a wrench into U.S. trade negotiations, suggesting that the Volcker rule violates NAFTA.

One of the world’s top crude producers is showing no signs of cutting back output despite low oil prices.