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  • Southwest starts on reputation repair after cancellations

    January 05, 2023 - 4:57 PM

    DALLAS (AP) — With its flights running on a roughly normal schedule, Southwest Airlines is now turning its attention to repairing its damaged reputation after it canceled 15,000 flights around Christmas and left holiday travelers stranded.

  • Tourism and travel industry pushed to embrace diversity and inclusion measures

    June 14, 2022 - 1:00 AM

    TORONTO - Travel and hospitality experts say pandemic-battered businesses are increasingly recognizing a longstanding blindspot that if addressed could help them rebound this summer: the BIPOC traveller.

  • Buffeted by weather, a historic Black town strives to endure

    April 28, 2022 - 7:04 AM

    PRINCEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — As she exits her hometown’s only restaurant clutching an order of cabbage and hush puppies, Carolyn Suggs Bandy pauses to boast about a place that stakes its claim as the oldest town chartered by Black Americans nearly 140 years ago.

  • Australia fights UN downgrade of Great Barrier Reef health

    June 22, 2021 - 12:04 AM

    CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia said Tuesday it will fight against plans to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status due to climate change, while environmentalists have applauded the U.N. World Heritage Committee’s proposal.

  • South Dakota's Noem launches legal strategy to take on Biden

    May 24, 2021 - 12:46 PM

    SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem catapulted onto the list of conservative politicians favored by former President Donald Trump with her libertarian approach to the pandemic. With the virus waning, she may be seeking to stay there by picking some legal fights sure to please the right.

  • Correction: Virus Outbreak-Business Travel story

    November 12, 2020 - 11:13 AM

    Brandon Contreras represents the worst fears of the lucrative business travel industry.

  • Eiffel Tower to reopen after longest closure since WWII

    June 16, 2020 - 2:46 PM

    PARIS - Workers are preparing the Eiffel Tower for reopening next week, after the coronavirus pandemic led to the iconic Paris landmark’s longest closure since World War II.

  • Prosecco's bubble shows no sign of bursting

    December 17, 2018 - 4:33 AM

    ASOLO, Italy - Prosecco, the fruity sparkling wine made in the northeastern hills of Italy is gaining in global popularity — and producers of Champagne, for so long the dominant bubbly wine, are taking note.

  • City hopes for revitalization in aftermath of fraud case

    May 20, 2018 - 7:46 AM

    NEWPORT, Vt. - A remote Vermont community down on its luck had looked forward in 2012 to a downtown hotel, office and retail space and a research plant that would bring hundreds of jobs. It now sees just a vacant demolished block that some residents refer to as "the hole."

  • Improv at work: Second City course translates unscripted skills to corporate world

    May 08, 2017 - 12:09 PM

    TORONTO - Consultant Melissa Madian wanted to help her clients navigate the fast-paced world of sales. But rather than focusing on corporate culture, she turned to a comedy juggernaut for a new skill to add to her tool kit: improvisation.
  • 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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