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Trump administration loosing offshore drilling rules

PORT FOURCHON, La. — The Trump administration moved Thursday to give oil and gas companies more flexibility in meeting safety requirements imposed after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon explosion, which killed nearly a dozen people and was the worst offshore…

260,000 new jobs in April as unemployment drops to 3.6%

Businesses hired 263,000 people in April, again defying many economists' expectations that a tight labor market would slow down job creation. Economists were expecting about 190,000 jobs to be added for the month. The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.6…

Hands-free Bill is On The Governor's Desk

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (WDEF)- Tuesday, Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill that could make Tennessee the 19th state to have a hands-free law. The neighboring state,Georgia, has already seen a decline in traffic fatalities since they implemented the law in 2018. "…

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