The owner and operators of a Whitewater mobile home park have agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging they had unlawfully excluded families with children from parts of their mobile home park.

The U.S. Supreme Court handed a surprising victory to the Obama administration and civil rights groups on Thursday when it upheld a key tool used for more than four decades to fight housing discrimination.

The Obama administration may need the vote of a frequent conservative antagonist on the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve a decades-old strategy for fighting housing discrimination.

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Wednesday in a debate over a decades-old strategy for fighting discrimination in housing.

It's not easy to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court from deciding an issue once the justices have agreed to hear a case.

After two high court terms full of high-profile cases ranging from the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act to the fate of same-sex marriage laws, no one is calling the upcoming term a blockbuster. But perhaps they should be.

A man and his former fiance have agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing them of evicting a woman from their New Richmond hotel because she refused the man's sexual advances.

Many urban governments in Oregon have adopted housing codes to regulate substandard housing.

NEW BERLIN, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. government is accusing the city of New Berlin of violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal prosecutors released a lawsuit Thursday that accuses city officials of denying applications to a developer who wanted to build low-income housing. According to the lawsuit, the city and mayor initially approved the application in May 2010. It said ...