Swapping Land for a Road to Somewhere Divides Alaskans

ANCHORAGE - Among the many bills Congress is considering before it recesses for the November elections is a proposed land swap between the State of Alaska and the federal government that would allow a gravel road to be built through a remote national wildlife refuge.

Obama and '60s Bomber: The Crossed Paths

Records of a school reform project suggest Barack Obama has played down contact with Bill Ayers, left, a founder of the Weathermen, but they do not seem to have been close

Kentucky's Trail Less Traveled

Shad Baker, vice president of the Pine Mountain Trail Conference, and members of the Sierra Club, take a lunch break. The volunteers are helping maintain and restore the trail.

22,000 jobs vanish in a month

UNEMPLOYMENT rate hits a six-year high, but economists had expected the news to be worse.