From candidates for Congress to local school boards, surveillance has become a fact of life for campaigns. Trackers are taping candidates on the sly in search of slips that can blow up a race.

A plan to have gun owners in New York register their handguns has sparked anger. State officials say a database will help keep guns out of the hands of people who legally shouldn't have them.

A soldier who killed his wife and a state trooper had a serious criminal record as a teen. He plotted to kill students at his middle school. That has people asking how he was accepted into the Army.

An active-duty soldier stationed at Fort Drum, N.Y., was charged with shooting his wife to death and also a New York state trooper who responded at the scene.

A suspect is identified as Justin Walters, an active duty Army infantryman stationed at Fort Drum. Walters' wife was found dead at the scene.

For the third year in a row, the H-2A visa program is running behind. That's left farmers waiting for planters and pickers even as the harvest season is well underway.

On a rare sunny morning in the northern Pacific Ocean, biologist Douglas Causey takes to the sea to conduct his research — binoculars in one hand, and a shotgun in the other.

As he bounces around in his boat, Causey, a researcher at the University of Alaska, has got ...