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Bill Gates' North Dakota farmland purchase was almost derailed by an archaic Depression-era law
The $13.5 million deal has been found to comply with the law designed to protect farming families a…
Beatrice Nolan
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Oklahoma's lax marijuana laws made it a green utopia for the cannabis industry. Then came the mass murder.
Oklahoma's lax pot laws made it a utopia for the cannabis industry. A mass murder on a weed farm in…
Matt Stroud
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Republican lawmaker demands Bill Gates testifies before agriculture committee over his farmland purchases
Dusty Johnson said he was curious about Bill Gates' farmland plans given he said people in countrie…
Kate Duffy
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Trump administration sued over decision that critics say would slash wages for more than 200,000 farm workers
In September, the US Department of Agriculture said it would no longer conduct the wage survey used…
Charles Davis
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An Idaho potato farm threatened to fire foreign workers and deport them to Mexico if they didn't accept wages below the legal limit, the DOL says
The farm also didn't meet housing health and safety standards, provide wage statements to workers, …
Grace Dean
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Apple farm hit with $2 million fine after migrant workers die of COVID-19
The state of Washington leveled one of its largest fines against Gebbers Farms after uncovering two…
Charles Davis
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In her first TV interview, a brave mother describes how she defied police and launched a solo mission to save her sons from the Uvalde mass shooter
Angeli Rose Gomez told CBS she heard the gunman firing shots as she searched alone, desperate to fi…
Bethany Dawson
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A man climbed Knott's Berry Farm's Supreme Scream ride and refused to come down. Videos show him standing on top of the 325-foot tower.
A man who climbed to the top of the Supreme Scream tower in Buena Park, California, is in police cu…
Joshua Zitser
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Companies like State Farm and McDonalds say they support LGBT rights, but their franchisees and agents sometimes have other ideas
Insider found that McDonald's franchise owners and State Farm agents in Arkansas donated a combined…
Madison Hall
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Trump administration move could slash wages for over 200,000 farm workers
The Trump administration plans to stop collecting farm worker wage data, which could lead to far lo…
Charles Davis
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A wind farm company admitted killing 150 eagles in the US and was fined $8 million. Almost all died from being hit by the blades.
ESI Energy acknowledged that deaths of more than 150 golden and bald eagles at its sites over the c…
Marianne Guenot
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It's so cold in the South that families are bringing their farm animals inside
In many cases, animal owners are also struggling with a lack of heat and electricity inside their h…
Julie Gerstein
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Florida GOP lawmaker says the anti-immigration law he backed is causing a 'major problem' as migrant families are leaving the state
Rep. Rick Roth said he still supports the law so undocumented immigrants "stay away from Florida," …
Kelly McLaughlin
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Scarred by a deadly milk scandal and fearing cooking oil cut with raw sewage, China's middle class is skipping the supermarket and buying straight from the farm
Thousands in China looking to bypass supermarkets and chain stores buy their foods from rural farms…