Communist officials decreed Friday that private farmers and cooperatives can use up to 100 acres (40 hectares) of idle government land, as President Raul Castro works to revive Cuba’s floundering agricultural sector.

More than 2,000 guitar-players performing “This Land is Your Land” in a Bay Area park appear to have strummed their way into the record books.

Some of the most prized land in the northern Rocky Mountains is being protected from development in a conservation land deal hailed as the largest of its kind in U.S. history.

A 15,000-acre California real estate partnership that has the nation’s largest public employees pension fund as its main investor has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

LandSource Communities Development LLC, a real estate partnership involving the nation’s largest public employees pension fund, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Unsuspecting property owners around the country are getting trampled in an old-fashioned land rush by natural gas companies and speculators trying to lock up long-ignored drilling rights quickly and cheaply.

Three more lawmakers are seeking investigations of federally funded research in poor, black neighborhoods that looked into how sewage sludge might combat lead poisoning in children.

More lawmakers are seeking investigations into federally funded research in poor, black neighborhoods on how sewage sludge might combat lead poisoning in children.

Pakistan police say land mine blasts have killed three men and injured five others in insurgency-plagued Baluchistan province.