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  • FTC proposes strengthening children's online privacy rules to address tracking, push notifications

    December 20, 2023 - 1:21 PM

    The Federal Trade Commission is proposing sweeping changes to a decades-old law that regulates how online companies can track and advertise to children, including turning off targeted ads to kids under 13 by default and limiting push notifications.

  • New Mexico launches cannabis sales within Texans' reach

    April 01, 2022 - 4:45 PM

    SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico brought recreational marijuana sales to the doorstep of Texas, the largest prohibition state, as the movement toward broad legalization sweeps up even more of the American West.

  • As Cairo transforms, Egyptians fight to save their trees

    March 11, 2022 - 10:20 PM

    CAIRO (AP) — A few months ago, Choucri Asmar decided he wasn't ready to give up hope. So he led a group of residents in “a peaceful demonstration to protect the trees” of his Cairo neighborhood.

  • CRTC lacks expertise to regulate online streaming, YouTube: experts

    February 10, 2022 - 1:00 AM

    OTTAWA - Internet experts have cast doubt on whether the body the federal government wants to regulate streaming services and video-sharing platforms such as YouTube and Netflix has the expertise to do so.

  • Biden bets on rapid COVID tests but they can be hard to find

    September 21, 2021 - 1:54 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is betting on millions more rapid, at-home tests to help curb the latest deadly wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is overloading hospitals and threatening to shutter classrooms around the country.

  • More than 45 dead after Ida's remnants blindside Northeast

    September 02, 2021 - 9:17 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — A stunned U.S. East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers and tornado damage Thursday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain, drowning at least 46 people in their homes and cars.

  • The Latest: UN warns of pending food crisis in Afghanistan

    September 01, 2021 - 9:21 AM

    KABUL, Afghanistan — A senior U.N. official has warned that food in Afghanistan could run out this month, threatening to add a hunger crisis to the challenges facing the country’s new Taliban rulers as they endeavor to restore stability after decades of war.

  • 'Was it worth it?' A fallen Marine and a war's crushing end

    August 26, 2021 - 12:26 PM

    SPRINGVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — She was folding a red sweater when she heard a car door slam, went to the window and realized that a moment she always imagined would kill her was about to be made real: three Marines and a Navy chaplain were walking toward her door, and that could only mean one thing.

  • Arizona governor declares emergency after Flagstaff floods

    July 16, 2021 - 7:32 PM

    FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A northern Arizona city was hit a third time with flooding on Friday, sending debris into the streets and forcing them to close.

  • Tree-cutting ban in Southwest forests hurts heating needs

    September 26, 2019 - 7:14 PM

    FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - People who rely on wood stoves to heat their homes in the winter are scrambling to find other options after a U.S. District Court halted tree cutting on large swaths of national forests in the Southwest over concern about a threatened owl.
  • Reid Hamer-Jackson at his swearing in ceremony, Nov. 1, 2022. JONESIE: Why Reid Hamer-Jackson can't fight city hall
    OPINION I don’t live in Kamloops. Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson’s antics have no effect on me personally, so allow me to be a bit more philosophical about it. I want to like the guy, more for what he could represent than wh
  • 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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