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Navajo Nation company ends bid to buy power plant, mine
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - One of the largest coal-fired power plants in the West will close this year as planned after a Navajo Nation company ended its long-shot bid Friday to acquire it. The Navajo Genera...
Mar 22, 2019
Treasury grants further relief on IRS withholding penalties
WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department announced Friday that it is expanding again the relief it grants taxpayers who had too little in income taxes withheld from their paychecks in the first year of a ...
Mar 22, 2019
The Latest: New fire extinguished at Texas chemical plant
HOUSTON - The Latest on a fire that had been burning at a Texas petrochemical storage facility (all times local): 5:15 p.m. The company that operates a Houston-area chemical plant says a new fire has ...
Mar 22, 2019
A look at Russians who became mixed up in Trump probe
MOSCOW - An investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into an elaborate Russian operation that sought to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and try to help Donald Trump win the White ...
Mar 22, 2019
Sentencing judge in Broncos crash calls for carnage on highways to end
MELFORT, Sask. - A judge called for an end to "carnage on our highways" as she sent a truck driver to prison on Friday for causing a fatal crash involving a Saskatchewan junior hoc...
Mar 22, 2019
Mueller concludes Russia-Trump probe, delivers report
WASHINGTON - Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday turned over his long-awaited final report on the contentious Russia investigation that has cast a dark shadow over Donald Trump's presidency, enta...
Mar 22, 2019
Quebec man convicted in Mafia-linked drug bust to be deported to Italy
MONTREAL - Michele Torre, a Quebec man convicted in 1996 for his role in a Mafia-linked conspiracy, appears to have run out of options to stay in Canada and is scheduled to be deported to hi...
Mar 22, 2019
Rajput running as Independent in Grande Prairie riding
Another candidate has surfaced in the Grande Prairie riding for the April 16 election.Rony Rajput is running as an Independent and will join the UCP's Tracy Allard, the NDP's Todd Russell, the Alberta...
Mar 22, 2019 (Photo: Facebook / Rony Rajput)
Questions about who qualifies surround journalism supports in federal budget
OTTAWA - Concerns are being raised about limits to who might qualify for aid under a section of this week's federal budget geared toward supporting journalism, and whether the money will, in the long ...
Mar 22, 2019
Ohio cuts funding for Planned Parenthood after court OK
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Department of Health is ending grants and contracts that send money to Planned Parenthood after a divided federal appeals court upheld a state anti-abortion law that blocks p...
Mar 22, 2019