Two rural Colorado electric cooperatives will receive $48.5 million in loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to modernize electric grids and increase security.

A federal tax credit for electric vehicles will soon be available to more vehicles at higher price points.

The legislation would set up a national network of up to 20 research sites focused on biochar as a climate solution on farms.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has accepted Montana’s petition to delist grizzly bears in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem.

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(Minnesota News Connection) After 10,000 years of domestication, farming and its popularity for use in bread and beer, wheat could have some competition.

Scientists call it Thinopyrum intermedium. Growers call it Kernza.

One of its biggest advantages? It's perennial. Perennial crops require less tilling and fertilizer, and grow back year after year.

An expert explains the history of using ‘correctional’ facilities to punish people.

Nineteen Republican U.S. senators introduced a bill that would require the U.S. Department of Defense to offer reinstatement to service members who were fired over the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

The U.S. economy added 517,000 jobs in January as the unemployment rate dropped to 3.4 percent, the lowest since May 1969.

Ending the federal emergency reflects both a scientific and political judgment that the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis has ended and that special federal resources are no longer needed to prevent disease transmission across borders.