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  • From the college dorm trenches: What to bring, leave at home

    July 20, 2022 - 5:25 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — For the uninitiated, outfitting a college dorm room can be a dizzying experience. Doing it at a time of high inflation can make it even more daunting.

  • Dwindling Alaska salmon leave Yukon River tribes in crisis

    October 02, 2021 - 1:53 PM

    STEVENS VILLAGE, Alaska (AP) — In a normal year, the smokehouses and drying racks that Alaska Natives use to prepare salmon to tide them through the winter would be heavy with fish meat, the fruits of a summer spent fishing on the Yukon River like generations before them.

  • Mild to severe: Immune system holds clues to virus reaction

    September 30, 2020 - 2:08 PM

    One of COVID-19's scariest mysteries is why some people are mildly ill or have no symptoms and others rapidly die — and scientists are starting to unravel why.

  • Table’s new star? The relaxed and versatile dinner bowl

    November 19, 2019 - 5:33 AM

    Dinner menus are now crowded with mixed greens bowls, savory stews and casseroles, which can create a quandary when it’s time to set the table.

  • Sweet Earth CEO: Changing consumers behind plant-based boom

    October 27, 2019 - 10:01 AM

    Kelly Swette and her husband Brian founded Sweet Earth Enlightened Foods seven years ago because they felt the market needed vegetarian food that was more convenient, flavourful and sustainable. As it turns out, they were at the leading edge of a booming trend.

  • How to reduce plastic, foil and other kitchen disposables

    August 07, 2018 - 10:38 AM

    Disposables have become a mainstay of many American kitchens — plastic baggies, plastic wrap, paper towels, aluminum foil, plastic straws and more. Reducing or even eliminating them can save you money in addition to cutting down on trash that ends up in landfills.

  • At The Turn: Need to give a golf gift but don't get the game? Help is here

    December 16, 2017 - 7:00 AM

    OTTAWA - For anyone unfamiliar with the game, buying a gift for a golfer can be a stressful and intimidating ordeal — so much so that many people won’t bother, reasoning that the links-obsessed loved one in question can just get what they want themselves.

  • Saving seeds also saves money and plant history

    September 05, 2017 - 7:05 AM

    Seed saving is precisely that. Gathering seed saves money for the next planting season and also saves genetic strains that may have originated generations ago in family gardens.

  • Lab-made "mini organs" helping doctors treat cystic fibrosis

    August 23, 2017 - 9:31 AM

    UTRECHT, Netherlands - Els van der Heijden, who has cystic fibrosis, was finding it ever harder to breathe as her lungs filled with thick, sticky mucus. Despite taking more than a dozen pills and inhalers a day, the 53-year-old had to stop working and scale back doing the thing she loved best, horseback riding.

  • Appliance trends: Show focuses on colours, cooking times

    April 26, 2016 - 7:11 AM

    LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Whether you're Paleo, vegan or something in between, today's luxury kitchen appliances are designed to let you individualize everything from colour to cooking method.
  • 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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