Marc Levy, Associated Press

The new year will usher in the bitcoin-friendly administration of President-elect Donald Trump and an expanding lobbying effort in statehouses

The owner of the shuttered Pennsylvania nuclear power plant says it plans to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement with tech giant Microsoft.

The hacking of a municipal water authority in a Pennsylvania town is prompting new warnings from U.S. security officials as states and the federal government are wrestling with how to harden water utilities against hackers.

The suit from the Texas attorney general, Republican Ken Paxton, demands that the 62 total Electoral College votes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin be invalidated.

The Environmental Protection Agency administrator signed the rollback of the methane emissions rule as the agency touted the Trump administration’s efforts to “strengthen and promote American energy.”

In a modern-day echo of the raucous Old West, small towns enjoying a boom in oil and gas drilling are seeing a sharp increase in drunken driving, bar fights and other hell-raising, blamed largely on an influx of young men who find themselves with lots of money in their pockets and nothing to do after they get off work.