Max Baucus

 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — More than 1 million acres of land have been protected from development each year under a temporary federal tax deduction, and land trusts nationwide are hoping Congress will now make permanent the credit, which includes a...

Oil company executives traveled to Washington, D.C. Thursday morning for a Senate Finance Committee hearing on whether a set of federal tax breaks for their firms should be repealed, as industry profits and gas prices both remain high. The committee...

Record high gas prices are straining Kentuckians’ wallets, squeezing family budgets, and putting pressure on struggling businesses. Beyond the strain on the family budget, these high fuel costs pose a mortal threat to the economic rebound our...

Billings, Mont. -- Government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent court actions that restored the animal's endangered status in all states.......

BILLINGS, Mont. — Two decades after the federal government spent a half-million dollars to study the reintroduction of gray wolves to the Northern Rockies, lawmakers say it's time for Congress to step in again -- this time to clamp down......

Congress failed to extend employment benefits by Nov. 30, meaning millions of Americans will stop receiving checks from the government. That could have very real consequences for the economy, a story in Wednesday's Times says. But unemployment benefits...

Gas prices are predicted to fall by at least 10% this summer, experts say which would save US drivers $189 million a day in gas prices...

BILLINGS, Mont. — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and governors from three Northern Rockies states resumed negotiations last week to remove the region's wolves from the endangered list but reached no conclusions. Western lawmakers are pushing bills in...

Muni bond prices fall and yields jump on worries the Build America Bond program won't be extended...

The end of the year -- and the expiration date for a Treasury grant program that buoyed the renewable energy industry during the economic slowdown -- is just around the corner, and solar and wind power leaders are bracing for......

Signing the bill, he says both sides don't like parts, so that's proof it's a good deal....

Before Thanksgiving, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey organized a letter, signed by 28 Democratic senators, urging the leaders of their party to schedule a vote to continue allowing the unemployed to collect benefits for 99 weeks. A vote is scheduled for......