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  • Animal chaplains offer spiritual care for every species

    March 25, 2024 - 3:01 PM

    (RNS) — Sarah Bowen says she’s been doing the work of an animal chaplain since she was 6 years old.

  • Disney says it has $40 billion economic impact in Florida as it battles DeSantis in court

    November 14, 2023 - 10:55 AM

    ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney on Tuesday released a study showing its economic impact in Florida at $40.3 billion as it battles Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his appointees over their takeover of the district that governs the entertainment company's massive theme park resort in central Florida.

  • From piñata to postage stamp, US celebrates centuries-old Hispanic tradition

    September 08, 2023 - 10:39 PM

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service on Friday rolled out its latest special edition postage stamps, paying homage to a tradition with global roots that has evolved over centuries to become a universal symbol of celebration.

  • Tourists are packing European hotspots, boosted by Americans

    July 13, 2023 - 4:02 AM

    VENICE, Italy (AP) — Tourists are waiting more than two hours to visit the Acropolis in Athens. Taxi lines at Rome’s main train station are running just as long. And so many visitors are concentrating around St. Mark’s Square in Venice that crowds get backed up crossing bridges — even on weekdays.

  • When destitute small towns mean dangerous tap water

    November 04, 2022 - 11:36 AM

    KEYSTONE, W.Va. (AP) — Donna Dickerson’s heart would sink every time she’d wake up, turn on the faucet in her mobile home and hear the pipes gurgling.

  • Parched Mendocino, California, implores guests to save water

    August 10, 2021 - 3:35 PM

    MENDOCINO, Calif. (AP) — Tourists flock by the thousands to the coastal town of Mendocino for its Victorian homes and cliff trails, but visitors this summer are also finding public portable toilets and signs on picket fences pleading: “Severe drought. Please conserve water."

  • After little rain, California tourist town runs low on water

    July 23, 2021 - 1:59 PM

    MENDOCINO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California coastal town popular with tourists is running low on water after two years of little rainfall during a drought in the U.S. West, forcing residents and business owners to truck in water from elsewhere.

  • For South Sudan mothers, COVID-19 shook a fragile foundation

    July 22, 2021 - 1:12 AM

    JUBA, South Sudan - Paska Itwari Beda knows hunger all too well. The young mother of five children — all under age 10 — sometimes survives on one bowl of porridge a day, and her entire family is lucky to scrape together a single daily meal, even with much of the money Beda makes cleaning offices going toward food. She goes to bed hungry in hopes her children won’t have to work or beg like many others in South Sudan, a country only a decade old and already ripped apart by civil war.

  • For South Sudan mothers, COVID-19 shook a fragile foundation

    July 22, 2021 - 1:09 AM

    JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Paska Itwari Beda knows hunger all too well. The young mother of five children — all of them under age 10 — sometimes survives on one bowl of porridge a day, and her entire family is lucky to scrape together a single daily meal, even with much of the money Beda makes cleaning offices going toward food. She goes to bed hungry in hopes her children won’t have to work or beg like many others in South Sudan, a country only a decade old and already ripped apart by civil war.

  • New Mexico forest draws crowd for annual 'Rainbow Gathering'

    July 03, 2021 - 8:12 AM

    CARSON NATIONAL FOREST, N.M. (AP) — Across a mile-long stretch of forest in a remote part of northern New Mexico, the party is in full swing.
  • 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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