FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) 鈥 Volkswagen is considering closing some factories in its home country for the first time in the German automaker's 87-year history, saying it otherwise won't meet the cost-cutting goals it needs to remain competitive.
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) 鈥 Evacuations were ordered Saturday as a wildfire scorched the foothills of a national forest east of Los Angeles, amid a days-long heat wave that pushed temperatures into the triple digits across the region.
VICTORIA - The company operating British Columbia's ferries says divers have recovered a propeller that fell off one of its vessels and triggered an oil spill earlier this week, but notes it will take six months to complete the needed repairs.
BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) 鈥 Orange, blue, calico, two-toned and ... cotton-candy colored?
MONTREAL - Advanced voting kicked off on Friday in Montreal鈥檚 LaSalle-脡mard-Verdun riding, and party leaders are helping get out the vote as the federal byelection on Sept. 16. draws nearer.
In a step forward for efforts to acquire the metals crucial to addressing climate change, on Monday a new plant that can extract nickel and cobalt from scrap material opens in Fairfield, Ohio. The resulting metals will be used in new batterie…
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) 鈥 Vietnamese authorities say Typhoon Yagi has killed at least four people and injured 78 others after making landfall Saturday afternoon in the north of the country.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) 鈥 An abandoned, 22-story building in Lake Charles, Louisiana 鈥 once an icon in the city that became a symbol of destruction from hurricanes Laura and Delta 鈥 was imploded Saturday after sitting vacant for nearly four years.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) 鈥 Jelena Popovic normally loves summer and all it brings along, including the hot weather. But this year it was just too much.
LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) 鈥 Hinano Rodrigues remembers being 4 or 5 years old, carrying a bucket across a highway to the ocean in the Maui community where he still lives.
FORT ST. JAMES, B.C. - A British Columbia First Nations leader says the province must rethink its approach to the forest industry in light of Canfor Corp.'s decision to shutter two sawmills and leave 500 workers without jobs.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) 鈥 Every other day Lois Malvo waits for her son to bring six buckets of water from a spigot in the backyard. He then bathes his 78-year-old mother using water heated on the stove and washes her with a spray pump he bough…
