Washington Federal News

WASHINGTON Federal regulators are monitoring plans for an important test that could disrupt television service for some N.C. viewers in the path of Tropical Storm Hanna.

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators are considering placing an abandoned gold mine in McCormick, S.C., on the Superfund list of contaminated sites because its highly acidic water containing dissolved metals has ...

WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors and regulators on Wednesday accused two former Wall Street brokers of defrauding customers by making more than $1 billion in unauthorized purchases of securities tied to ...

WASHINGTON - Federal safety regulators have closed an investigation into unintended acceleration in Toyota Tacoma pickup trucks, saying their probe couldn't find a cause behind more than 400 complaints.

The run on IndyMac Bank in California rattled some consumers in the Puget Sound region, Evergreen Bank President and CEO Gerry Hatler says.

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators today proposed a plan to allow public companies to begin using international accounting standards for reporting financial results in two years, and may require them to do so ...

WASHINGTON - Federal authorities say two airliners were a minute away from colliding when they turned away from each other over the Caribbean this week.

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators say U.S. thrifts lost $5.4 billion in the second quarter and set aside a record amount to cover losses from bad mortgages and other loans.

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators Tuesday boosted to $8.9 billion the estimated cost of IndyMac Bank's failure and prepared the public for more collapses, reporting that the number of troubled U.S. banks shot up ...

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators said yesterday that investors who bought risky auction-rate securities from Merrill Lynch & Co.

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators today approved a biotech drug from Amgen Inc. to treat a rare blood-clotting disorder.

WASHINGTON - Federal food safety regulators are poised to allow producers to irradiate spinach and iceberg lettuce to protect consumers from disease.

WASHINGTON-- Federal drug safety regulators said Thursday they are investigating whether the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin can increase patients' risk of developing cancer.

WASHINGTON Federal regulators say Merrill Lynch & Co. will buy back up to $7 billion in auction-rate securities over its role in selling the risky bonds to retail investors.

WASHINGTON -- Federal drug safety regulators said Thursday they are investigating whether the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin can increase patients' risk of developing cancer.

WASHINGTON - Federal aviation officials said Wednesday they are conducting an unusual 30-day review of the Eclipse 500 very light jets in response to reports of safety problems when the planes were certified in ...

WASHINGTON Federal regulators have warned General Electric Co. over lax quality control standards at a plant that makes computer software for medical imaging.

WASHINGTON Federal regulators are working on a stronger label for a widely used diabetes drug marketed by Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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WASHINGTON -- Federal mine regulators are defending new rules on coal-mine seals, saying underground miners will be better protected than under the requirements of a 2006 mine safety law.