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  • Communities can't recycle or trash disposable e-cigarettes. So what happens to them?

    October 19, 2023 - 2:15 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — With the growing popularity of disposable e-cigarettes, communities across the U.S. are confronting a new vaping problem: how to safely get rid of millions of small, battery-powered devices that are considered hazardous waste.

  • Edmunds' guide to vehicle history reports

    July 28, 2021 - 4:59 AM

    Obtaining a vehicle history report is an integral part of any used-car purchase. It’s one of the best ways to learn about a given vehicle’s past and help make your search for a used car much easier. Most importantly, the report tells shoppers if a car has a branded title. Branding means an insurance company has declared the vehicle a total loss and given it a salvage title because of an accident, flood damage or other catastrophic event.

  • Kayaker's photos show crack in closed I-40 bridge in 2016

    May 20, 2021 - 3:36 PM

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Photos taken by a Mississippi River kayaker about five years before a crack was found in the Interstate 40 bridge linking Tennessee and Arkansas appear to show the fracture that led transportation officials to close the span indefinitely last week.

  • Edmunds: How to manage your lease during the pandemic

    May 06, 2020 - 4:47 AM

    The coronavirus pandemic has significantly changed the way we live and conduct business in this country. Take, for instance, the act of terminating a vehicle lease.

  • Producers of dried medical pot awaiting approval to sell now-legal cannabis oils

    October 06, 2015 - 5:38 AM

    TORONTO - A number of Canada's medical marijuana growers are poised to release cannabis oils for authorized patients who don't want to smoke or vaporize the dried herb to relieve their symptoms.

  • Egg prices surge to record as bird flu decimates Midwest chicken flock

    May 22, 2015 - 4:43 PM

    DES MOINES, Iowa - Egg prices reached record levels on Friday after a bird flu outbreak decimated the flock, leading to the death of more than 20 million egg-laying hens over the last month in the top producing state of Iowa.

  • Uber taxi app continues to face resistance to Canadian expansion

    November 02, 2014 - 5:27 PM

    VANCOUVER - The taxi alternative Uber has been busy expanding its controversial UberX service in several Canadian cities in recent months, often against the wishes of local politicians and taxi regulators, who warn the service is bad — and potentially dangerous — for consumers.
  • 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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