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  • Critics caution against plan to expand medical assistance in dying to those with mental illness

    December 17, 2023 - 1:00 AM

    Hope is what kept Laurel Walker alive as thoughts of suicide overwhelmed her, and that is exactly what she says would be stripped from people battling the same darkness if Canada forges ahead with plans to expand medical assistance in dying to those with a mental disorder.

  • Millennial Money: A scarcity money mindset can cost you

    August 16, 2022 - 6:27 AM

    We all saw it at grocery stores in 2020. The shelves, once brimming with toilet paper and hand soap, were bare. We hid in our homes, deep-cleaning every surface, occasionally braving the threat of COVID-19 to hunt down the last remaining bottle of hand sanitizer in a 50-mile radius. We felt out of control, so we controlled what we could: the contents of our kitchens and bathroom cabinets.

  • What takes years and costs $20K? A San Francisco trash can

    August 13, 2022 - 9:53 AM

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — What takes four years to make and costs more than $20,000? A trash can in San Francisco.

  • As natural gas expands in Gulf, residents fear rising damage

    June 02, 2022 - 8:42 AM

    LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana (AP) — The front lawn of Lydia Larce’s home is strewn with debris: remnants of cabinets and chunks of pink shower. She lives in a FEMA trailer out back, her home in shambles after hurricanes tore through Lake Charles.

  • As natural gas expands in Gulf, residents fear rising damage

    June 02, 2022 - 3:58 AM

    LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana (AP) — The front lawn of Lydia Larce’s home is strewn with debris: Remnants of cabinets and chunks of pink shower marble lie between dumpsters. She lives in a FEMA trailer out back, her home in shambles more than a year after Hurricane Laura tore through Lake Charles.

  • Liz Weston: Dealing with death? There’s an app for that

    May 09, 2022 - 6:09 AM

    Before the pandemic, entrepreneurs Liz Eddy and Alyssa Ruderman had trouble getting venture capitalists to invest in their end-of-life planning app Lantern. Potential business partners were skeptical as well.

  • The Latest: Washington governor sets vaccine requirement

    August 09, 2021 - 1:57 PM

    SEATTLE — Most state workers in Washington, as well as private health care and long-term care employees, will be required to show proof of vaccination for COVID-19 by Oct. 18 or will lose their jobs, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Monday.

  • Liz Weston: Who gets the keys to your digital estate?

    July 12, 2021 - 3:47 AM

    You may not own cryptocurrency or nonfungible tokens. You may not have a big Instagram following or run an online business. But if you do almost anything online, you probably have digital assets — electronic records that you own, control or license. Failing to make arrangements for those assets while you’re alive could cause unnecessary costs, stress and heartache to those you leave behind.

  • How to organize important documents simply and safely

    July 08, 2020 - 6:36 AM

    Taxe filing deadlines inspire many of us to vow that we’re finally going to organize our papers.

  • Ex-benzodiazepine user relating to Peterson says withdrawal 'hell' needs awareness

    February 16, 2020 - 6:00 AM

    When Audrey Kellestine was prescribed a common drug to treat insomnia, she believed she could stop using it at any time.
  • 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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