Auto dealers plead with federal government for help
Canadian auto dealers are pleading with the federal government to ?come up with creative measures? to help make increasingly hard-to-get credit available to the small business owners.

Government push to cork alcopop loophole
THE Federal Government is set to shut a major loophole to stop alcoholic drink makers avoiding tax by passing products off as beer that look and taste like alcopops.

Federal prosecutors seek release of BALCO transcripts
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to unseal thousands of pages of grand jury transcripts and other documents from the government's BALCO steroids investigation.

Federal agency to guarantee $1.4 trillion in banks' debt
Federal regulators will guarantee as much as $1.4 trillion in U.S. banks' debt in a bid to get the distressed financial system pumping again. They also took steps Friday to make it easier for private investors to buy banks seized by the government.

Stevens trial witness now says he lied about federal immunity deal
WASHINGTON ? One of the government's witnesses against convicted Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska says he didn't tell the truth on the stand about an immunity deal with the Justice Department in exchange for his testimony. But federal prosecutors said Friday that his current story is the false one.

Airport-worker recruitment firm agrees to refund money to federal government
By BRYON OKADA A company that helped recruit and select the first wave of federal airport screeners for the new Transportation Security Administration after 9-11 has agreed to pay $5.6 million to settle the federal government?s complaint that it overcharged the agency, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. Minnesota-based NCS Pearson was one of the first companies hired by the TSA as the ...

Federal regulators guarantee bank debt
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators will guarantee as much as $1.4 trillion in U.S. banks' debt in a bid to get the distressed financial system pumping again. They also took steps Friday to make it easier for private investors to buy failed banks seized by the government.

NC counties get federal help after tornadoes
The federal government has declared several North Carolina counties disaster areas where fatal tornadoes destroyed homes and businesses last weekend. The U.S. Small Business Administration issued the declaration Friday for eight counties. It allows residents to apply for low-interest federal loans and disaster grants from the state. The hardest hit areas were in Johnston and Wilson counties, ...

Federal judge orders release of 5 Guantanamo detainees
A federal judge ordered the release of five Guantanamo Bay detainees Thursday, saying the government failed to show that they were "enemy combatants."

Ski area gets federal okay to expand
The federal government is supporting a land swap that is key to New Hampshire expanding its Cannon Mountain ski area.

Dubai Not Seeking Federal Government Credit Line, Official Says
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai, the second-biggest of the seven sheikhdoms that make up the United Arab Emirates, is not in talks with the federal government on setting up a state-funded loan facility for its companies, a government official said.

Federal regulators shut 2 California thrifts
Government says they fell victim to the acute distress in the housing market in that state.

D.C. Issues Medicaid Mea Culpa
The District might owe the federal government tens of millions in Medicaid dollars because of improperly filed claims from the D.C. public school system and the Child and Family Services Agency, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) said yesterday.

Fund manager talks of federal bailout's impact
(AP:NEW YORK) The prospect of buying stocks may unnerve even the most seasoned investor these days, given the continued uncertainty over how the nation's banking landscape will emerge from a historic bailout by the federal government.

NC counties get federal help after fatal tornadoes
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The federal government has declared several North Carolina counties disaster areas where fatal tornadoes destroyed homes and businesses last weekend.

Election promises delivered by Rudd Government in first 12 months
On the first anniversary of Labor's federal election victory, voters say the Rudd Government is all talk and no action.

Federal government files lawsuit for land condemnation
The federal government filed a lawsuit Tuesday to condemn the property the Port O'Call social club sits on to make way for a new federal courthouse.

Napolitano Might Be in Position to Fix Federal Immigration Policy
If she becomes President-elect Barack Obama's homeland security chief, Gov. Janet Napolitano will find herself in a position to change some of the federal immigration policies that she has ralied against. As leader of a state with the busiest illegal path into the United States, Napolitano has complained repeatedly that the federal government had shirked its duty to secure the border and ...

Citigroup May End Up With U.S. Government Rescue (Update1)
Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government may step in to rescue Citigroup Inc. after a crisis in confidence erased half the bank?s stock-market value in three days, according to investors and analysts.

Gov trying to collect debt from federal government
Gov. Janet Napolitano has been talking to the federal government about more money for Arizona. "From my point of view, the federal government owes the state of Arizona a lot of money and that has nothing to do with the bailout," the governor said at her weekly media briefing Wednesday.