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Wyoming Senior Assistant Attorney General Chris Brown was awarded the Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation Distinguished Service Award at the organization’s 104th annual meeting. Presented Nov. 10 in Cheyenne, the award is given to those who have gone above and beyond...

Make lei by a Waikīkī pool, catch live music to benefit Maui and learn about Native American culture at the Honolulu Intertribal Powwow.

What Is the Davis-Bacon Act?

With a divided Congress, policymakers in both chambers have suggested an infrastructure package as an area of potential bipartisanship. If past is prologue, this should worry American taxpayers. The last $305 billion infrastructure bill signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2015 was fiscally irresponsible and failed to include any meaningful reforms to government-imposed barriers to infrastructure investment.

Extending unemployment benefits would harm the economy.

Man who died after fire in Wayne identified by authorities

The Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve, between Playa del Rey to the south and Marina del Rey and Venice Beach to the north, is a natural resource full of birds, small mammals and space to explore. Here's how to help protect it.

The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 requires contractors on all federal construction projects to pay their workers the prevailing wage in their locality. The law is intended to ensure that the government does not drive down construction workers' wages, but flaws in the U.S. Department of Labor's wage determination process cause the law to have the opposite effect in Nebraska.

The Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division uses highly inaccurate methods to estimate prevailing wages for the Davis-Bacon Act. Davis-Bacon rates in Virginia (except for the Washington, D.C., Metro area) are 26 percent below market wages.

The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 requires contractors on all federal construction projects to pay their workers the prevailing wage in their locality. The law is intended to ensure that the government does not drive down construction workers' wages, but flaws in the U.S. Department of Labor's wage determination process cause the law to have the opposite effect in South Dakota.