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Shoe polish stands begin to vanish, lose their shine
March 02, 2023 - 1:59 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — On a recent winter weekday at Penn Station Shoe Repair and Shoe Shine, men hop onto shoeshine chairs and pull out newspapers and phones to read while shoeshiners get to work applying polish and elbow grease to loafers, boots and other leather shoes. When finished, these customers hand over $8 in cash at a counter where a sign reads “We’re not God, but we do save soles.”
Clickety clack, let's look back: Typewriters return
July 03, 2019 - 8:02 AM

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric — are but memories, or something seen only in movies.
Recalls this week: flashlights, infant cradle swings
April 15, 2016 - 12:04 PM

A line of flashlights are being recalled because the batteries can overheat and start a fire. Other recalled consumer products include defective infant cradle swings and inline skating helmets.
Unprecedented injuries from WWI spawned medical advances still used today
September 22, 2014 - 6:28 AM

It's said that necessity is the mother of invention and nowhere was that more true than on the blood-soaked battlefields of the First World War, where millions of soldiers suffered horrific injuries on a scale never before witnessed in combat.
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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

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

Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to end its ban on homegrown recreational cannabis — a move that would leave Quebec as the only province with such a restriction. "We're just allowing Manitobans to have the same

Kamloops council to expand tax exemptions for new rental builds
Developers have more land to choose from if they want to cut costs on new rental buildings in Kamloops. The City is looking to expand a tax exemption program to span massive swaths of Kamloops in order to encourage development. Previously r

Shoe polish stands begin to vanish, lose their shine