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  • At 40, the Sundance Film Festival celebrates its past and looks to the future

    January 16, 2024 - 9:50 AM

    Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck remember the feeling of being the new kids at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2004, they’d come to Park City, Utah, armed with a short film “Gowanus, Brooklyn,” some homemade promotional postcards and dreams of breaking through. Their short not only won a prize that year but also enough support to make the feature version, “Half Nelson,” which would later earn Ryan Gosling his first Oscar nomination.

  • LGBTQ students would get new protections under Biden plan

    June 23, 2022 - 3:12 PM

    The rights of LGBTQ students would become enshrined in federal law and victims of campus sexual assault would gain new protections under rules proposed by the Biden administration on Thursday.

  • In fast-changing Dubai, once-isolated village to be razed

    November 09, 2021 - 6:17 AM

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — From the front porch of their cinderblock home, Garry and Amanda James gaze over Dubai’s soaring skyscrapers and massive malls.

  • US economy: Plenty of growth, not enough workers or supplies

    June 07, 2021 - 1:19 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy is sparking confusion and whiplash almost as fast as it’s adding jobs.

  • Politics still pack a punch(line) for Iranian-American comic

    May 30, 2021 - 11:04 PM

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — For Iranian-American Maz Jobrani, a stand-up show in Dubai marked the first time he's been in front of a major live audience overseas since the start of the coronavirus pandemic — and he feels it.

  • Citizenship agency eyes improved service without plan to pay

    May 25, 2021 - 1:52 PM

    SAN DIEGO (AP) — Less than a year after being on the verge of furloughing about 70% of employees to plug a funding shortfall, the U.S. agency that grants citizenship wants to improve service without a detailed plan to pay for it, including waivers for those who can’t afford fees, according to a proposal obtained by The Associated Press.

  • Reputation of AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine marred by missteps

    March 23, 2021 - 8:19 AM

    LONDON - AstraZeneca's release Monday of encouraging data about its coronavirus vaccine from its U.S. trial raised hopes that the drug company could put a troubled rollout behind it. But just hours after its announcement, American officials issued an unusual statement expressing concern the company had included “outdated information” from its study and that it may have provided “an incomplete view of the efficacy data.”

  • Their babies are almost here but this 'magical' time is tainted by COVID-19

    March 31, 2020 - 12:13 PM

    Jessica Bourke is 18 weeks pregnant and can't remember the last time she kissed her husband Ian.

  • Questions complicate efforts to contain new virus from China

    February 15, 2020 - 6:40 AM

    WASHINGTON - Reports one day suggest the respiratory outbreak in China might be slowing, the next brings word of thousands more cases. Even the experts have whiplash in trying to determine if the epidemic is getting worse, or if a backlog of the sick is finally getting counted.

  • Directors, stars reveal what they'd buy for a film buff

    November 17, 2016 - 4:59 PM

    LOS ANGELES - Buying that perfect gift for a film buff can be a vexing task, so we went right to the heart of Hollywood to get tips on the creative ways in which some directors and stars might enchant a fellow movie lover this holiday season.
  • 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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