The US government has less than 48 hours to avert a shutdown of government services amid political divisions over President Obama's healthcare law.

The tiny Inupiat Eskimo community in near-Arctic Alaska -- which I was lucky enough to visit on a reporting trip in 2009 and which is home to some of the sweetest and most colorful people you'll meet -- has been watching climate change happen to it for years now.

A new report released today by the world’s leading climate change scientists states it is "extremely likely" that humans have been the main cause of global warming since the 1950s.

More jobs in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education are on the chopping block. This time, it’s at Mansfield University.

He may be the leader of the free world, but when President Barack Obama proposed that the government grade universities based on their cost and success rates, a lot of other people were ahead of him.

Community colleges in a growing number of states are offering bachelor’s degrees.

The number of Americans giving up their citizenship has rocketed this year - partly, it's thought, because of a new tax law that is frustrating many expats.

For solar power to finally be cheaper than grid power, scientists need to invent the ultimate solar cell. Right? Wrong.

Teachers at City College of San Francisco on Tuesday sued to block regulators from taking steps to shutter California's largest community college, which was stripped of its accreditation earlier this year.

The online course pool Semester Online is growing again after Wake Forest University this month decided to join ed-tech company 2U’s consortium.