Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced the federal government will begin measuring and quantifying the ecoomic impact of the outdoor recreation economy when calculating gross domestic product. Jewell, who served as CEO for REI before ...
Alliant Techsystems Inc.'s (ATK) plans to spin-off Bushnell and a dozen firearms brands to shareholders as a separate publicly traded company called Vista Outdoor Inc. took a step closer to reality Friday morning when the U.S. Department ...
Tags: Feds, firearms, Sporting Goods
Peruvian poly-metallic miner Milpo increased production of zinc, lead, copper and silver in the first quarter after bringing online expansions at two of its mines in Peru, the miner said Monday. A unit of Brazil's Votorantim Metais, Milpo ...
Tags: Zinc Output, Silver Output
National freight productivity will be boosted through the injection of $125 million to start the roll-out of the Advanced Train Management System across the national rail network and the next stage of the Port Botany Rail Line Upgrade, ...
Tags: Service, logistics, freight network
Federal efforts to combat health care fraud recovered a record $4.3 billion in fiscal 2013 and have recouped more than $8 for every $1 spent on enforcement over the past three years, according to an annual report released Wednesday. ...
Tags: Health Care, Fraud, Recovered
Medicare Advantage is the managed care program, run by private insurance companies, for seniors and disabled people. Politico: Major Spending Cut Proposed For Medicare Advantage An annual notice released Friday after the markets closed ...
Tags: Health Care, Health Insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, Seniors
U.S. officials are planning to announce Monday whether automakers should be required to equip new cars and light trucks with technology that enables vehicles to communicate with each other to prevent collisions. Such vehicle-to-vehicle ...
Tags: Car-to-Car Communication, Wi-Fi, GPS function, Qualcomm
Los Angeles Times: Democrat Leading In Florida Race Eyed As Test Of Obamacare A Democratic candidate who has explicitly defended Obamacare holds a slight lead in a special congressional election in Florida that both parties are eyeing as ...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA) will soon propose rules for vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications on U.S. roads, it announced yesterday. The agency is now finalizing a report on a 2012 trial with almost 3000 ...
Tags: Vehicle-to-Vehicle, Communications
A selection of health policy stories from New York, Washington state, California, Virginia, Idaho, Connecticut and Georgia. The Associated Press/Wall Street Journal: Feds Urge More Talks On N.Y. Medicaid Application New York has ...
Last week was an unusually quiet week in the land of IT-related snafus. Most of the snarls reported concerned existing tech issues that continue to fester without resolution. For example, late last week, Florida decided to pay unemployment ...
Tags: IT-related snafus, Plague Maryland, Governor Rick Scott, CAC
December sales for CE and appliance dealers slipped 1.4 percent year over year to $8.4 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. The preliminary figures, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
More than a week after marijuana prohibition came to an end in Colorado, the joy has faded as residents adjust to the new normal of having the most liberal marijuana laws in the U.S. Long lines are gone from the 37 -- and counting -- pot ...
A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals. A Food Safety News investigation has documented that millions of pounds of ...
Tags: honey, Chinese honey, food safety
Joe Oliver, Canada's minister of natural resources, recently announced a proposed amendment to Canada's energy efficiency standards for light bulbs, saying it will provide greater choice for consumers and align with standards in the United ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Light Bulbs