You can wave bye-bye to $4 billion in government spending.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took a major step Tuesday toward banning medical marijuana dispensaries in the county's unincorporated areas.
With help from The Carter Center, Guinea worm disease is close to eradication around the world.
It's a disease that has plagued Africans for decades, now medical researchers believe they are on their way to eradicating it.
If Shirley Sherrod had 30 seconds with conservative website blogger Andrew Breitbart, her response would be simple.
Shirley Sherrod has words for a blogger who posted her speech on his website that eventually led to her losing her job.
While officials say the White House didn't ask for Shirley Sherrod's resignation, the former black Agriculture Department employee insisted Tuesday that the push for her to step down came from the Obama administration.
The Agriculture Secretary says the White House played no part in Shirley Sherrod's resignation from the USDA.
A rural town loses the battle for broadband stimulus money. CNN's Mary Snow reports.
Dave Pries stands near a decades-old weather siren in his hometown of Minneiska, Minnesota, worrying about when the next tornado will hit. Along with the weather, the city clerk voices another big concern here: slow Internet connections.
The villagers' faces light up as Evans Wadongo arrives. Men, women and children sing and gather around as he shows how his invention -- a solar-powered LED lantern -- will soon light up their homes.
Evans Wadongo invented a way for rural families in Kenya to replace smoky kerosene and firelight with solar power.
CNN's Charles Hodson reports on the local property scene in rural West Somerset.
A rapidly moving fire in southwest California torched oil fields and threatened homes.
Hot, dry weather worked against Southern California firefighters early Thursday as they battled a quickly expanding fire in the rugged terrain of Ventura County.
The Southeast is among the areas of the United States with the highest concentration of cases of HIV and AIDS, according to a new online tool called the National HIV/AIDS Atlas.
After surviving a near-fatal accident, Richard Olson recalls the doctor telling him, "You may never walk again."
Pilot Bill Gross and his nonprofit Farm Rescue help family farms survive in times of illness, injury or natural disaster
Dear FSB: We are a small business in a rural community that is in need of money to redirect and retool our company. After 30 years in the commercial satellite installation business, we need to look elsewhere for future growth but do not have the investment capital. Our needs are large enough that we can't afford it ourselves and too small to attract investors. We employ about 15 people and numerous contractors in a high overhead low to no margin business. SBA loans are prohibitively expensive and bureaucratic, and grants also have expensive strings attached. I need help to move forward.
It is said that nowhere else on earth will the impacts of climate change be felt more acutely than in the developing world.
A village in India is taking on the country's plastic crisis, one bag at a time. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
Driving at an easy clip along a gravel road that stretches on and on into the horizon, Rich Kay makes a sudden right-hand turn and steers his Chevrolet truck up a steep and bumpy incline. "Here we ...
Promising to cut the federal budget has become one of the regrettable rituals of autumn in America. In almost every year since Ronald Reagan incited the modern revolt against "waste, fraud, and abu...
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