The Agriculture Department’s inspector general said Monday that the department may have broken the law by not obtaining congressional approval before relocating two research agencies out of Washington ...

The Agriculture Department faces a court order to release SNAP benefits the department refuses to fund this month with the ...

The White House did not provide a rationale for the removal, as required by law. The president has fired nearly 20 watchdogs since the start of his second term.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2013 – The USDA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) reported today that it found a 67 percent increase in “high-dollar” overpayments in FY 2012 compared to the previous fiscal ...

Some inspector general websites were down across the federal government on the first day of the partial government shutdown Wednesday.

One way of thinking about the job of an agency Inspector General (IG) is to see it as scraping barnacles from the agency’s hull and warning it about legal shoals. If an IG does that, the agency will ...