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The House Budget Committee chairman airs his doubts about President Obama's jobs plan.

Researchers at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon have been documenting the park's soundscape. But human-caused noises, like airplanes, are making it harder to hear.

The bill's sponsor said it was time to confront "misunderstandings of church and state." The bill would encourage the motto to be placed on public buildings.

One of the main solar companies in the United States, First Solar, is in trouble. Its CEO was forced out in October and its stock prices have fallen dramatically. Thursday the Arizona-based company announces its earnings and investors are going be demanding answers. From member station KJZZ in Phoenix, Peter O'Dowd report.

State worker union members have ratified a contract that will prevent nearly 3500 lay offs , though members make several concessions, including a three…

A columnist for China Daily says by buying his own coffee Ambassador Gary Locke has become a model for what Chinese public servants should be like.

There was supposedly some snickering from jaded folks on the West Coast of the U.S. as they watched many on the East Coast express alarm over Tuesday's earthquake. But the temblor made many in the East think of Sept. 11, 2001.

Pieces of twisted metal and scrap wood left behind by a massive tornado that tore through Joplin, Mo., are now sitting in a gallery in Kansas City. The sculptures and paintings from the wreckage are to be sold at auction Saturday.

Early Sunday morning, Hurricane Irene rolled through southern New Jersey. Guest host John Ydstie speaks with Pamela Grites of the American Red Cross Southern Shore Chapter about Hurricane Irene's effects on southern New Jersey.

Why was New York state's Tappan Zee Bridge built at one of the widest spots on the Hudson River when it would have been much cheaper and easier to build it a few miles south? Newspaper clippings from the 1940s and '50s revealed something suspicious.