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  • Europe has avoided energy collapse. But is the crisis over?

    January 10, 2023 - 5:26 AM

    FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe has dodged an energy apocalypse this winter, economists and officials say, thanks to unusually warm weather and efforts to find other sources of natural gas after Russia cut off most of its supply to the continent.

  • Street traders offer a better bargain than stores as Zimbabwe's currency crumbles

    May 23, 2023 - 12:08 AM

    HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Festus Nyoni picked out a few items in a supermarket in Zimbabwe’s capital, looked at the prices and knew she was in the wrong place.

  • Europe's energy crisis raises firewood prices, theft fears

    October 26, 2022 - 11:27 PM

    CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Tudor Popescu swings his ax down on a log, then feeds the split wood into a stove that heats his home in the capital of Moldova. As the nights turn chilly, the stack of firewood has been growing higher around him — his provisions for the coming winter.

  • Lights out, ovens off: Europe preps for winter energy crisis

    September 26, 2022 - 10:57 AM

    FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — As Europe heads into winter in the throes of an energy crisis, offices are getting chillier. Statues and historic buildings are going dark. Bakers who can't afford to heat their ovens are talking about giving up, while fruit and vegetable growers face letting greenhouses stand idle.

  • Britain to see 80% spike in energy bills as crisis deepens

    August 26, 2022 - 12:46 AM

    LONDON (AP) — Jennifer Jones keeps feeding money into her energy meter, but it never seems to be enough. And when she can’t pay, she feels the impact immediately.

  • UK energy bills are skyrocketing. Why is it happening?

    August 25, 2022 - 11:56 PM

    LONDON (AP) — A cost-of-living crisis in Britain is about to get worse, with millions of people paying about 80% more a year on their household energy bills starting in October.

  • Economics of war: Pain for Europe now, later for Russia

    July 18, 2022 - 1:18 AM

    Across Europe, signs of distress are multiplying as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on. Food banks in Italy are feeding more people. German officials are turning down the air conditioning as they prepare plans to ration natural gas and restart coal plants.

  • 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.

  • High energy costs are hitting UK. It's about to get worse

    April 01, 2022 - 10:17 AM

    LONDON (AP) — Tia Rutherford is worried about her 3-year-old son.

  • Food, gas prices pinch families as inflation surges globally

    November 29, 2021 - 9:26 AM

    BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — From appliance stores in the United States to food markets in Hungary and gas stations in Poland, rising consumer prices fueled by high energy costs and supply chain disruptions are putting a pinch on households and businesses worldwide.
  • 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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