Employees of the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began getting dismissal notices in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people​.

The Trump administration says the merging and downsizing of some Health and Human Services agencies is aimed at realigning them toward the “core mission” of ending chronic disease. But some HHS ...

ASSP warns that proposed cuts to OSHA and NIOSH could severely undermine decades of progress in protecting worker health and safety.

food safety, veterans health care, the opioid epidemic, and the ability to respond to floods and wildfires. The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan watchdog agency that investigates ...

Boar's Head deli meats recall notice at a deli counter in a Queens, New York grocery store.Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal ...

Pittsburgh mayoral challenger and County Controller Corey O’Connor outlined his goals for the city’s public safety on ...

The federal government wants the number of offices that oversee U.S. mine safety laws to align more with a shrinking coal ...

The local layoffs appear to have been part of a nationwide clearcutting of federal Health and Human Services staff.

WASHINGTON — An independent government watchdog agency will probe how President Donald Trump's mass firings of early-tenure employees affect on air travel, the spread of diseases, nuclear safety, food ...