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The U.S. economy gained momentum in the second quarter as consumers and businesses picked up their spending. Gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 2.6 percent.

Some credit cards advertised by hospitals lure in patients with rosy promises of convenient, low-interest payments on big bills. But interest rates soar if you can't quickly pay off the loan.

An 82-year-old Virginia senator raising the stakes, an Indiana consensus builder and a Texas enforcer are among state officials who have shaped the course of the midterm redistricting race.

Jobless rates for the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek labor markets were down more than a percentage point in June compared to a year ago. The Department of…

The U.S. health system now produces debt on a mass scale, a new investigation shows. Patients face gut-wrenching sacrifices.

A civil war that began last year in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has the international community concerned as hundreds of thousands of people in the region now live in famine.

The Dixie Fire has been burning for weeks — threatening a series of small towns in the Sierra Nevada. More than 5,000 firefighters are working to contain the blaze.

Thousands of unaccompanied migrant children have reported being sexually abused while in U.S. government custody. The numbers were detailed in documents released by a Democratic congressman.

The World Health Organization says an outbreak of Ebola in Africa is under control after only a few weeks. But 500 miles to the south, a related virus, Marburg hemorrhagic fever, is still spreading months after it began.

The next phase of the Kalamazoo River Superfund cleanup starts in March, at Verburg Park in Kalamazoo.