Auctioneers can be forgiven for being some of the most superstitious people on the planet. There are enormous pressures associated with the job—standing at the rostrum before billionaires around the ...

A council meeting in the small village of Tahsis, on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island, devolved into incoherent shouting and one councillor taking the gavel from the deputy mayor on Monday ...

In offices throughout the rest of the building, legislators on all sides of the politically contentious debate on how to fund Alaska schools, watched from behind closed doors, as well as school ...