
22 hours ago - By Clarke Canfield, Associated Press Writer
Census workers are using snowmobiles, airplanes, all-terrain vehicles — even lobster boats — to visit the most far-flung, hidden-away dwellings when counting the nation's populace. Complete Story...
Mar 16 - By Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer
With the 2010 census under way, about 1 in 10 people may not participate in the population count, with many saying they see little personal benefit from the government survey or have concerns that it may be intrusive, according to a poll released Tuesday.

Mar 15 - By Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer
Let the count begin.
Mar 15 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
Some common problems when filling out U.S. census forms, which arrive by mail beginning Monday:

Mar 15 - By Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer
Let the count begin.

Mar 10 - By Jacob Adelman, Associated Press Writer
Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census are enlisting a new corps of foot-soldiers in their battle to reach that hard-to-count demographic: tech-savvy, smart-phone-toting young people.
Mar 8 - By Greg Bluestein, Associated Press Writer
A Georgia man accused of killing two people used an innovative legal strategy Monday in an attempt to get his murder charges dismissed. Call it the Census defense.

Mar 6 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
Coming soon to a mailbox near you: the 2010 census form.
Mar 4 - By Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer
With the 2010 population count looming, the government provided new assurances Thursday that information Americans fill out on their census forms will be kept confidential and not be used for law enforcement.

Feb 27 - By Chris Williams, Associated Press Writer
It was 5 p.m. in the lobby of the library of Metropolitan State University, and Clara Ware was sitting behind a table covered with pens, notepads and buttons with the Census 2010 logo, calling out like a sideshow barker.

Feb 24 - By Jennifer Kay, Associated Press Writer
Identify yourself as being of "Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin" on the 2010 U.S. Census questionnaire, and you will get to be more specific about your ancestry, such as Mexican-American, Cuban or Puerto Rican.
Feb 23 - By Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer
The head of the Census Bureau is defending the agency's decision to spend $300 million to promote the national head count, saying paid advertising will save money by encouraging more people to mail in their forms.
Feb 18 - By Randolph E. Schmid, AP Science Writer
From pole to pole, surface to frigid depths, researchers have discovered thousands of new ocean creatures in a decade-long effort now nearing completion, and there may still be several times more strange creatures to be found, leaders of the Census of Marine Life reported Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Feb 18 - By Associated Press
Will all Cuban mules please stand up? Or at least raise a hoof or two. The communist government says it is facing a major mule deficit and has commissioned a census of the beasts of burden to determine how bad the problem is.

Feb 18 - By Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer
The 2010 population count is just a month away, and President Barack Obama is asking U.S. residents to fill out their census forms.

Feb 17 - By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press Writer
Nearly 1 1/2 years after Hurricane Ike battered Galveston, this southeast Texas island community fears the natural disaster could land another harsh blow.
Feb 16 - By Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer
Were those pricey Super Bowl ads a waste? Maybe not, but paying $3 million to census employees who didn't do any work surely was.

Feb 11 - By Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer
Republican groups are raising money under the guise of the U.S. Census Bureau, leaving the government's people-counters worried that a flurry of misleading letters could make some Americans less likely to respond to the real thing.
Feb 10 - By Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer
Prisoners will soon be bigger players in those high-stakes redistricting fights, even if unwittingly, thanks to a change in federal policy governing how they're to be counted in the 2010 census.
Feb 8 - By Cara Anna, Associated Press Writer
China has revealed its most ambitious measure of what explosive development has done to its environment, saying Tuesday its first national pollution census has mapped nearly 6 million sources of industrial, residential and agricultural waste.
Feb 5 - By Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer
Faced with record levels of red ink into the foreseeable future, Washington is spending $2.5 million to create buzz for the census — by advertising during the Super Bowl.

Feb 1 - By Paul J. Weber, Associated Press Writer
Police cars and large white vans rumbled down the unpaved road toward the ramshackle houses, where illegal immigrants are among hundreds living in a slapdash neighborhood, or colonia, called San Carlos.
Feb 1 - By Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer
The government is fumbling some efforts to assure immigrants that U.S. census data won't be used against them, including gaps in outreach and foreign language guides that refer to the decennial count as an investigation.
Jan 25 - By Steven K. Paulson, Associated Press Writer
The Republican Party is seeking input and money from GOP voters — seemingly under the guise of the U.S. Census Bureau.

Jan 25 - By Rachel D'Oro, Associated Press Writer
The U.S. Census Bureau is launching its 2010 count of the nation's residents in a remote Alaska village. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves flew to Noorvik in northwest Alaska on Monday to count the first household in the Inupiat Eskimo community of 650. Groves and other officials were taken to the village school by sled dog teams driven by schoolchildren; he even took a brief stint at the reins.