Moody's Investors Service is calling California's pension reform plan a positive development for the state and local governments.

It sounds like good news: Annual premiums for job-based family health plans went up only 4 percent this year.

A look at where Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney stand on a selection of issues

The U.S. government is selling more of its shares in insurer American International Group Inc., in a move that should decrease its holdings below a majority stake for the first time since the $182 billion bailout in 2008.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who promised early in his campaign to repeal President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, says he would keep several important parts of the overhaul.

The U.S. economy added only 96,000 jobs in August, below July's gain. Yet the unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent from 8.3 percent, the steepest drop since January.

Small businesses created no jobs last month, according to a survey released Thursday by the National Federation of Independent Business.

Kansas health officials and policymakers gathered Thursday in Topeka to hear that no single strategy will reduce obesity in the state and everyone will need to help make changes.