For the first time in four years, life expectancy in the U.S. has gone up. The increase is small - just a month. But it marks at least a temporary halt to a downward trend.

The Nevada Public Utilities Commission is indicating it might budge on its decision to apply new, higher rates to rooftop solar power customers who bought their systems in years past.

Nevada is planning to pay a bit more than it originally proposed for therapists who work with children with autism, after parents complained the hourly rate was too low.

A newspaper analysis has found that the most recent estimate of the cost to ride California's bullet train from Los Angeles to San Francisco is a bargain at $86.

A state pension fund committee has approved retirement calculations for new hires despite concerns about pension spiking raised by California Gov. Jerry Brown and local governments.