By Karen Kidd | Feb 28, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) reports its Wage and Hour Division has recovered more than $10,000 in overtime wages for 23 workers at three Kentucky stores.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 28, 2022
A Florida man lost two residences, several bank accounts, and more than $2.6 million – and was sentenced to more than five years in prison – after a wire fraud conviction.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 26, 2022
Scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are investigating the effects of a sudden extreme rainfall event, or "deluge," on an area experiencing long-term drought, to help the nation's farmers better navigate climate change.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 25, 2022
K. Lynn Berry, superintendent of Congaree National Park in South Carolina, will relocate in the spring and serve in the same position for four Oakland, California-area national parks.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 25, 2022
It's very often not the first national park to come to mind but a west Texas local attracted a record-breaking number of visitors last year, the National Park Service said Feb. 18.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 25, 2022
A man who allegedly drove all the way from Alabama to Indiana to commit arson has been under a federal grand jury since January, the U.S. Department of Justice reported earlier this month.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 25, 2022
A large farm in Texas that is one of the nation's largest potato producers recently had to pay $1.3 million in wages it had denied its farm workers, according to a U.S. Department of Labor news release.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 25, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor's recently announced recovery of $125,000 in back wages for an Iowa-based subcontractor's 34 workers is part of keeping wages steady, a wage and hour division director said in news release.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 25, 2022
The last defendant in a high-volume outdoor drug trafficking operation in southwest Georgia was sentenced earlier this month following his guilty pleas in November, according to news releases.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 25, 2022
Managers at a New Hampshire burrito restaurant who kept employee tips shouldn't have, a U.S. Department of Labor division director said in a news release.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 25, 2022
As the COVID-19 pandemic raged, two health care facilities in Michigan - one of the hardest hit in the nation by coronavirus - withheld hundreds of thousands of dollars in wages from its workers, the Department of Labor said in February.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 24, 2022
A Texas lumber company faces almost $400,000 in penalties after the death of an 86-year-old worker in a fall from wood pallets last summer.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 24, 2022
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By Karen Kidd | Feb 24, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's recent update about billions of dollars in relief for the nation's food producers staggered by two years of natural disasters is intended to help them recover, a USDA under secretary said.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 23, 2022
A North Carolina family-owned and operated farming company wanted to employ a former principal of a company sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Agriculture badly enough that it paid a hefty surety bond
By Karen Kidd | Feb 22, 2022
The recently announced four new members of the National Organic Standards Board, and its existing members, are 'vital' for the nation's organic standards updates, a U.S. Department of Agriculture under secretary said in a news release
By Karen Kidd | Feb 22, 2022
Nearly two dozen new fields of study in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) added to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program will help attract new workers in those fields, according to a recent news release.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 20, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's WasteWise 2020 and 2021 award winners, announced earlier this month, prevented and diverted almost 408,000 tons from the nation's garbage stream.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 20, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy agrees with a federal court ruling last summer that a 47-year-old law has nothing to say about local new natural gas hookup bans, an Ohio-based energy and economics think tank reported earlier this week.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 19, 2022
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's recently announced record-breaking $1.5 billion in annual funding for state and local outdoor recreation is a boon for outdoorsy types, an Interior Department official said in a news release.
