Heartfelt thanks to all essential workers

Now that 2020 is in the rearview mirror, we look forward to 2021 to return our lives

Stocks slumping as 10-year yield near all-time low

The 3D release nobody wanted

Ticket Stubs

Check your movie listings today (um, online?) and you'll notice "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" is back in theaters. Of course, on the Internet, you might know the film as "The absolute worst movie in the history of cinema."

Movers & Shakers

Movers & Shakers: Feb. 4

How GM's return played in 3 cities with a stake

NEW YORK (AP) - General Motors returned to Wall Street with the satisfying roar of a muscle car's engine, embraced by traders at the New York Stock Exchange who stood in a crowd eight deep for the chance to buy a piece of a resurrected American icon.

Lakefront property for sale in Bitcoin

Proposed Chateau de Loire site in spotlight again

Government will sell Citi stock, reap bailout profits

NEW YORK (AP) - Bank bailouts are turning out to be great business for the government. Unfortunately for taxpayers, other federal rescues will almost certainly wind up in the red.

'Jeopardy!'-winning computer delving into medicine

Watson will be able to diagnose, suggest treatments

YORKTOWN, N.Y. - Some guy in his pajamas, home sick with bronchitis and complaining online about it, could soon be contributing to a digital collection of medical information that will be designed to help speed diagnoses and treatments.

Hayes tries to calm recall fervor

Clerk reminds all of recall rules

COEUR d'ALENE - The Kootenai County Clerk's Office is warning everyone involved in the Coeur d'Alene City Council recall and anti-recall efforts to play it straight.

Trying to save Pe' Sla

Sioux tribes upset over sale of sacred site in S. Dakota

Getting the Landing to take off

Site owner receives letter of interest from undisclosed local developer

White House wants less government in mortgage system

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration wants to shrink the government's role in the mortgage system - a proposal that would remake decades of federal policy aimed at getting Americans to buy homes and would probably make home loans more expensive across the board.

Sameness and sustainability: The Northwest's challenges

Watching any wine appellation grow up, define itself and develop into a dominant force, or not, is something to watch. At times it appears to happen all in slow motion, developing in real time but like a slow motion replay in a sporting event. Both when the predictable outcome is good and when it is bad you can see it coming.

Colorado Senate rivals clash in debate

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) - Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo) and his Republican challenger, Rep. Cory Gardner, clashed in the most raucous debate yet of their neck-and-neck race Thursday night, arguing over which of them was too extreme to represent the state and angling for the slightest advantage days before mail-in ballots begin to arrive at voters' homes.

Controversy, questions remain for health care

Future still in flux for divisive law

WASHINGTON - One year after President Barack Obama signed his historic health care overhaul, the law is taking root in the land. Whether it bears lasting fruit is still in question.

Hospitals try cooking up better food

Movement is toward tastier, more nutritious fare for patients

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. - Haute cuisine is to hospital food as coq au vin is to mystery meat, right?

Community Thanks January 16, 2011

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School shutdowns raise stakes of digital divide for students

WINNSBORO, S.C. (AP) — Students struggling to get online in a rural South Carolina county received a boost last week with the arrival of six buses equipped with Wi-Fi, some of the hundreds the state has rolled out since schools were closed by the coronavirus outbreak.

Hoodwinked: Take a stand against con artists

Remember the days when they called the Internet the "information superhighway?"

More than just point-and-click

What shopping will look like in the future