PHOENIX - Business leaders and others are putting the final touches on a proposed ballot measure that would increase the state's sales tax by a penny to raise billions of dollars for transportation projects, a leader of the effort said Monday.

Source: Reuters By Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - For the first time in a generation, most major U.S. business sectors are donating more campaign money to Democrats than to Republicans, according to ...

When Shannon Griego says she's in a dirty industry, she isn't just talking about the contaminated soil her firm carts from construction sites. "Competition in the Los Angeles area is brutal," she says.

ERIE, Pa. -- General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt said the U.S. economy is the worst its been since the burst of the dot-com bubble and that housing hasn't been in such dire straits since the Great Depression.

LOS ANGELES – An ambitious plan to cut highway traffic jams and provide better bus transit services in Los Angeles is eligible for more than $213 million in federal Congestion Reduction grants, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters said.