One of the nation’s largest July Fourth fireworks shows will be held on the Hudson River this year to celebrate the 400th anniversary of English explorer Henry...

The Department of Energy should halt construction on a nuclear waste reprocessing facility in South Carolina after an internal investigation found several safety flaws,...

An audit of a nuclear weapons complex in South Carolina says the Savannah River Site did not meet several safety standards when constructing a new facility.

E-commerce software service company Digital River Inc. said Wednesday it is “cautiously optimistic” about its outlook for 2009.

E-commerce software service company Digital River Inc. said Wednesday its first-quarter profit inched lower, but the results surpassed the company’s forecast and...

Neighbors and friends in the hometown of an American journalist imprisoned in Iran were drawn together when they filled sandbags to fight off the Red River last month....

As the swollen Red River threatened Fargo this spring, thousands of eyes were trained on the city’s miles of sandbag walls. But just in case the townspeople...

Flood waters have fallen below most of the sandbag levees protecting Fargo, feeding optimism that the city had tamed the Red River, at least for now.

The Red River of the North along the Minnesota-North Dakota border faces the nation’s greatest threat of spring flooding, the government said in it’s...

E-commerce software service provider Digital River Inc. said Monday Doug Steenland, formerly chief executive of Northwest Airlines Corp., has been named to its board.

Harry Vanderpool, a beekeeper, lives on a hill nearly 1,000 feet above the Willamette River, outside Salem, Ore. It should be a good spot for TV reception, and it used...

Crews on Saturday were using sonar to search the bottom of the Colorado River after a car plunged 60 feet into a canyon and sank in the icy river, trapping a 5-year-old...

Police in Utah say a car plunged 60 feet into a canyon and sank in the icy Colorado River with a 5-year-old girl trapped inside.

Federal investigators say a company managing South Carolina’s Savannah River Site nuclear complex altered its 2007 financial audit to justify expenses to the...

The US Airways pilot who successfully ditched in the Hudson River considered emergency landings at two airports but twice told air controllers he was unable to make...

A cool-headed pilot maneuvered his crippled jetliner over New York City and ditched it in the frigid Hudson River on Thursday, and all 155 on board were pulled to...

A cool-headed pilot maneuvered his crippled jetliner over New York City and ditched it in the frigid Hudson River on Thursday, and all 155 on board were pulled to...

Four recent major airline accidents have something in common: Everyone survived.

The pilot who guided a crippled US Airways jetliner safely into the Hudson River _ saving all 155 people aboard _ became an instant hero Thursday, with accolades from...

Jeff Kolodjay settled into seat 22-A, near the rear of the Airbus A320, glad to be on his way.