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  • How supply chain issues are crushing hotels - and your stay

    February 10, 2022 - 5:58 AM

    For many, supply chain issues mean something like the grocery store is out of oat milk, so you’re stuck with soy instead. For hotels — an industry already hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic — supply chain issues are causing even bigger problems.

  • Add rent to the rising costs bedeviling small businesses

    July 04, 2022 - 7:41 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — The rent has come due for America’s small businesses and at a very inopportune time.

  • Grocery store workers call refusal to reinstate pandemic pay 'insulting'

    January 14, 2022 - 12:00 PM

    Retail workers say the refusal by Canada's grocers to reinstate "hero pay'' has left them feeling forgotten, unappreciated and at risk as the Omicron wave leaves many stores short-staffed amid renewed consumer stockpiling.

  • Energy crunch hits global recovery as winter approaches

    October 19, 2021 - 8:07 AM

    Power shortages are turning out streetlights and shutting down factories in China. The poor in Brazil are choosing between paying for food or electricity. German corn and wheat farmers can't find fertilizer, made using natural gas. And fears are rising that Europe will have to ration electricity if it's a cold winter.

  • EPA unveils strategy to regulate toxic 'forever chemicals'

    October 18, 2021 - 5:15 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Monday it is launching a broad strategy to regulate toxic industrial compounds associated with serious health conditions that are used in products ranging from cookware to carpets and firefighting foams.

  • For South Sudan mothers, COVID-19 shook a fragile foundation

    July 22, 2021 - 1:09 AM

    JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Paska Itwari Beda knows hunger all too well. The young mother of five children — all of them under age 10 — sometimes survives on one bowl of porridge a day, and her entire family is lucky to scrape together a single daily meal, even with much of the money Beda makes cleaning offices going toward food. She goes to bed hungry in hopes her children won’t have to work or beg like many others in South Sudan, a country only a decade old and already ripped apart by civil war.

  • Gifts inspired by the upcoming arrival of Baby Girl Sussex

    May 27, 2021 - 12:14 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — It's nearly time for the arrival of Baby Girl Sussex, and that likely means some new gear for Harry and Meghan.

  • EXCERPT: 'Kill Shot' probes shadow industry, deadly disease

    February 23, 2021 - 6:28 AM

    EDITOR’S NOTE — This is an exclusive excerpt adapted from “Kill Shot: The Untold Story of the Worst Contaminated Drug Crisis in U.S. History,” by Associated Press investigative reporter Jason Dearen. The book chronicles the rare fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012 that killed more than 100 people, and infected some 750 others.

  • Lives Lost: Families find solace in memories and mementos

    December 30, 2020 - 8:16 AM

    Long after the funeral or memorial, if one was even possible, and long after the condolence cards, the phone calls of support, there is simply the emptiness. That’s when the memories rush in.

  • Survey finds doctors worry supplies of flu vaccine, PPE will lag demand

    September 29, 2020 - 1:32 PM

    TORONTO - The Canadian Medical Association says doctors still face hurdles getting personal protective equipment and fear they won't be able to adequately respond to increased demands for the flu shot.
  • 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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