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  • Kimberly Palmer: How to afford big-ticket items for the year

    July 11, 2022 - 6:44 AM

    When Brandy Baxter needed to replace her home’s entire heating and air conditioning system several years ago, she asked contractors if they offered deals at certain times of the year. She learned that if she waited until February, the slow season for such work, she could get a lower price. Baxter, a financial coach based in Dallas, says she saved around $6,000 as a result.

  • Deadly heat wave in the central US strains infrastructure, transportation

    August 23, 2023 - 2:09 PM

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Temperatures have soared in the central U.S., leading to deaths in some states as more dangerous heat is expected, a national weather service official said.

  • How climate change can impact your finances

    February 15, 2023 - 4:01 AM

    Kristy Jiayi Xu got an unwelcome surprise this New Year’s Eve: The roof of her garage was leaking during a severe rainstorm in San Francisco. Delays in getting a contractor to fix the roof has brought unexpected costs to keep things dry, including a dehumidifier.

  • Shortages of supplies and workers will delay Gulf rebuilding

    September 06, 2021 - 7:06 AM

    Joe Sobol, owner of Big Easy Construction in New Orleans, has bad news for homeowners who've been calling about roofs damaged by Hurricane Ida or to get an update on renovations that were scheduled before the storm ripped through the area.

  • Contractors who powered US war in Afghanistan stuck in Dubai

    August 09, 2021 - 1:29 PM

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Some of the foreign contractors who powered the logistics of America’s “forever war” in Afghanistan now find themselves stranded on an unending layover in Dubai without a way to get home.

  • Biden orders tough new vaccination rules for federal workers

    July 29, 2021 - 3:36 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday announced sweeping new pandemic requirements aimed at boosting vaccination rates for millions of federal workers and contractors as he lamented the “American tragedy” of rising-yet-preventable deaths among the unvaccinated.

  • Biden to launch vaccine push for millions of federal workers

    July 28, 2021 - 2:26 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Hoping to set a model for employers nationwide, President Joe Biden will announce Thursday that millions of federal workers must show proof they’ve received a coronavirus vaccine or submit to regular testing and stringent social distancing, masking and travel restrictions.

  • US calls reports of migrant children in buses 'unacceptable'

    May 14, 2021 - 5:43 PM

    Reports of unaccompanied migrant children being forced to stay overnight in parked buses at the Dallas convention center are “completely unacceptable” if true, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Friday.

  • 4 tips for starting or reinventing a business in tough times

    February 17, 2021 - 4:04 AM

    Think the best time to start a business is in a booming economy? Maybe. But some of the biggest business success stories in recent decades actually came from a good idea hatched during a recession.

  • Cellphones offer look back at most personal moments of 2020

    December 31, 2020 - 9:01 AM

    A year like no other: Americans shambled through it, doing the best they could under circumstances that were uneven at best — and sometimes downright punishing.
  • 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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