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  • Fueled by winds, largest wildfire moves near California city

    August 17, 2021 - 10:33 PM

    GRIZZLY FLATS, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire raged through a small Northern California forest town Tuesday, burning dozens of homes as dangerously dry and windy weather also continued to fuel other massive blazes and prompted the nation's largest utility to begin shutting off power to 51,000 customers.

  • One hack, 106 million people: Capital One ensnared by breach

    July 30, 2019 - 3:16 PM

    SEATTLE - A hacker accessed the personal information of 106 million Capital One credit card holders or credit card applicants in the U.S. and Canada, in the latest massive data breach at a large company.

  • B.C. resource and tourism industries braced as wildfires rip through forests

    August 17, 2018 - 4:12 PM

    Tourists are still filling golf courses and shops in Kimberley, B.C., but the smoke-filled city's unique SunMine solar power project is operating at less than half of capacity as nearby forest fires continue to rage.

  • Coffee and conservation: Mozambique tries both on a mountain

    July 11, 2018 - 7:06 AM

    MOUNT GORONGOSA, Mozambique - At Mozambique's Mount Gorongosa — where farmers are being encouraged to grow coffee in the shade of hardwood trees, both to improve their own lot and to restore the forest — there is a point beyond which visitors are told not to go.

  • For many factory towns, white collar job loss hurts the most

    March 07, 2018 - 8:25 AM

    ERIE, Pa. - With the abandoned smokestacks off the bay and ramshackle factories along 12th Street, it's easy to pin the blame for this industrial city's plight on the loss of manufacturing jobs to China and Mexico.

  • Puerto Ricans grab machetes, shovels to help restore power

    February 07, 2018 - 7:00 AM

    COAMO, Puerto Rico - It took only minutes for Hurricane Maria to kill power to the Puerto Rican town of Coamo, cracking wooden poles, snapping power lines and hurling transformers to the ground.

  • 14 employees at 'filthy' pharmacy charged in meningitis outbreak that killed 64 patients

    December 17, 2014 - 5:51 PM

    BOSTON - Mould and bacteria were in the air and on workers' gloved fingertips. Pharmacists used expired ingredients, didn't properly sterilize them and failed to test drugs for purity before sending them to hospitals and pain clinics. Employees falsified logs to make it look as if the so-called clean rooms had been disinfected.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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