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  • Some Canadian employers offer egg freezing as part of expanded fertility benefits

    March 16, 2023 - 11:33 AM

    Tonya Johnson, 39, is single, happy and freezing her eggs to buy a little more time before she starts a family.

  • Yellowstone flooding forces 10,000 to leave national park

    June 14, 2022 - 5:32 PM

    RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — More than 10,000 visitors were ordered out of Yellowstone as unprecedented flooding tore through the northern half of the nation’s oldest national park, washing out bridges and roads and sweeping an employee bunkhouse miles downstream, officials said Tuesday. Remarkably, no one was reported injured or killed.

  • Emergencies Act could harm truckers unconnected with blockades: trade group

    February 15, 2022 - 2:55 PM

    Sweeping powers invoked by the federal government risk dropping the hammer on drivers and companies that have no direct role in blockades, the head of a trucking association says.

  • 'So many memories': Over 500 homes feared destroyed by fire

    December 31, 2021 - 6:10 PM

    SUPERIOR, Colo. (AP) — One couple returned home Friday to find the mailbox about the only thing left standing. Charred cars and a burned trampoline lay outside smoldering houses. On some blocks, homes reduced to smoking ruins stood next to ones practically unscathed by the flames.

  • All lanes open Monday at Canada-U.S. land border, but PCR test still a drag on travel

    November 07, 2021 - 4:00 AM

    WASHINGTON - The southbound lanes on the road to North America’s post-pandemic recovery will finally reopen Monday as the United States ends nearly 20 months of controversial COVID-19 exile and allows fully vaccinated travellers to cross the Canada-U.S. land border.

  • Big, messy, complicated: Biden's plan churns in Congress

    October 29, 2021 - 3:52 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s big. It’s messy. And it’s very politically complicated. That's President Joe Biden’s sweeping domestic policy package as Democratic leaders in Congress try to muscle it into law.

  • Biden announces 'historic' deal - but still must win votes

    October 28, 2021 - 4:19 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he and Democrats in Congress have reached a “historic" framework for his sweeping domestic policy package. But he still needs to lock down votes from key colleagues for what's now a dramatically scaled-back bill.

  • Top Dems: We have framework to pay for $3.5T bill; no detail

    September 23, 2021 - 9:52 AM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and congressional Democrats have agreed to a “framework" to pay for their huge, emerging social and environment bill, top Democrats said Thursday, but they offered no details and the significance was unclear.

  • Slow-moving storm Henri drenches Northeast US

    August 22, 2021 - 9:11 PM

    WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) — Tropical Storm Henri socked the Northeast with strong winds as it made landfall Sunday on the coast of Rhode Island and sent lashing bands of rain westward, knocking out power to over 140,000 homes and causing deluges that closed bridges, swamped roads and left some people stranded in their vehicles.

  • The Latest: Official Taliban websites abruptly go offline

    August 20, 2021 - 3:58 PM

    BOSTON — Taliban websites that delivered the victorious insurgents’ official messages to Afghans and the world at large in five languages have abruptly gone offline.
  • 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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