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NEW YORK — Nestor Hernandez, arrested on an assault charge, says he sat in a fetid Rikers Island intake cell for four days before his father posted his bail.

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, UPS and Pfizer head the list of the highest-yielding dividend stocks in the S&P 500. Some of the other names might surprise you.

Fiordland National Park is the crowning jewel of our national parks and arguably our greatest tourist magnet. But conservationists warn that marine life has been put at risk because the park’s waters are unprotected. Heidi Bendikson’s investigation shows they are right.

An acoustic “harassment” device won’t be used to keep dolphins from high-speed boats

The U.S. Justice Department says Louisiana's prison system routinely holds people beyond their release dates

When the country’s scarce wetlands go up in smoke, an unknown - but enormous - quantity of CO2 ends up in the atmosphere.

As private helipads (and applications for them) proliferate around Auckland and two Hauraki Gulf islands, the big question is why city officials seem so reluctant to do anything to stop them.

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections says a condemned inmate's spiritual advisor cannot be inside the death chamber during his execution on Thursday

Conservation group fears a flood of applications is “a rush to develop the high country”

DOC says it’s a complex process in need of robustness and accuracy, but supporters of a proposed marine reserve are ‘deeply frustrated’ at bureaucratic hold-ups.

The OPEC+ alliance plays an instrumental role in supporting market stability, said OPEC Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais on the sixth anniversary of the group’s formation. The Declaration of Cooperation (DoC) is an unprecedented collaborative framework of 23 oil-producing countries that is based on trust, mutual respect and dialogue, Al…