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A U.S. dockworkers’ union and their employer group will meet in New Jersey on Jan. 7 with just over a week to hammer out a deal on a new labor contract.

Diesel prices rose significantly in the first reporting period of the new year, climbing 5.8 cents to reach a national average of $3.561 a gallon, according to EIA data released Jan. 6.

What now seems certain is that Trump — who sees tariffs as a way to rebuild American manufacturing and make other countries hew to his policy priorities — is preparing a major package.

TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation Jan. 6 after nearly a decade in power, bowing to discontent over his leadership and turmoil within his government.

New York City kicked off the first congestion pricing program in the U.S., part of an effort to reduce the number of vehicles in the world’s most traffic-clogged urban area.

A key rail route that connects Texas to Mexico has now opened after Canadian Pacific Kansas City unveiled the new Patrick J. Ottensmeyer International Railway Bridge in December.

A major winter blast of snow, ice, wind and plunging temperatures in the U.S. stirred dangerous travel conditions from central and southern states all the way to the East Coast.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, an effort to block action by the incoming administration to expand offshore drilling.

Nippon Steel Corp. and U.S. Steel Corp. jointly filed lawsuits in a last-ditch effort to preserve the planned merger of the companies, which was blocked last week by President Joe Biden.

WASHINGTON — Republican Mike Johnson won re-election to the House speakership on a first ballot Jan. 3, pushing past GOP hard-right holdouts.