WASHINGTON -- America's colleges and universities are quietly shifting the burden of their big tuition increases onto low-income students, while many higher-income families are seeing their college costs rise more slowly, or even fall, an analysis...

SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif. -- The woman in line at the bank said she had already sold all her cattle and was now selling her land.

It was one too many tales of drought hardship for Laynee Reyna, also known as She Who Makes Things Happen -- a name ...

WASHINGTON -- It's not just colleges and universities that are shifting their financial aid from lower-income to higher-income students.

Tuition tax credits and other tax breaks to offset the cost of higher education -- nearly invisible federal ...

KLAMATH, Calif. -- Abby Abinanti squints at her docket. "The court is going to call -- the court is going to put on its glasses," she says dryly, reaching to grab her readers and snatch some candy from a staff member.

As chief judge of the Yurok ...

KLAMATH, Calif. -- Lauren Alvarado states it simply: "Meth is everywhere in Indian country."

Like many here, she first tried methamphetamine at age 12. Legal trouble came at 13 with an arrest for public intoxication. In the years that followed, ...

WASHINGTON -- States are stepping up efforts to combat health care fraud and overpayments that cost them billions of dollars a year.

States are assigning special investigators, sharing information with each other and using new ways of looking at ...