Apr. 14—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — A Johnstown-area couple’s environmentally conscious coffee bean business is growing locally and nationally. It all started with a trip to Walt Disney World in 2019, and a startling realization about the coffee industry’s impact on the rainforest, Stephen and Kelsey Koval said. Their Richland Township-based Tomorrow’s Coffee was created not only […]
Two Maine lawmakers are facing possible censure after one said the deadliest mass shooting in the state, in Lewiston in October, was a sign of retribution from God over the passage of a law expanding abortion access by the Democratic-led state Legislature and other “immoral laws.” During a floor debate Wednesday, state Republican state Rep. […]
This article was first published in the ChurchBeat newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Wednesday night. Two young sister missionaries on Temple Square stopped to talk with me this weekend, and the conversation quickly turned to how this weekend’s general conference felt much like Temple Square was opening up again. […]
American manufacturers have been squeezed for the past two years by lingering supply-chain disruptions and high interest rates, but the industry finally expanded in March for the first time in 16 months, according to the Institute for Supply Management. But a resurgence in the industry could complicate the Federal Reserve’s ongoing inflation fight, either delaying […]
GUNTUR, India (AP) — There’s a pungent odor on Ratna Raju’s farm that he says is protecting his crops from the unpredictable and extreme weather that’s become more frequent with human-caused climate change. The smell comes from a concoction of cow urine, an unrefined sugar known as jaggery, and other organic materials that act as […]
Malaysia-headquartered budget airline AirAsia is revamping a subscription plan that gives customers “unlimited” flights and cut-price hotels across South-east Asia. An expansion of the AirAsia+ offering available since December 2022, the Unlimited – Asean International Pass includes “a variety of exclusive discount offerings” for travellers in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) region. The […]
ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR)– Hotel Roanoke is currently undergoing a $14 million renovation. According to Hotel Roanoke’s website, the renovation will bring new technology, designs, and custom-made furniture to all 328 guestrooms. It will also include a new Spa and Wellness Floor with an expanded Salt Foot Sanctuary Spa Suite. Performance Pickleball opening second Virginia facility […]
Mar. 30—ROCKET CENTER, W.Va. — Northrop Grumman Corp. officials announced this week that an expansion will take place at the company’s Rocket Center facility as a result of a $178 million contract with U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command. The expansion is designed to meet global security demands and will include adding structures to the Naval […]
Mar. 22—SUPERIOR — The city is considering expanding a program that has helped the homeless find permanent housing, saved lives and helped the addicted find treatment. The Human Resources Committee approved hiring a second coordinated response specialist in the Superior Police Department. A civilian position, the coordinated response specialist provides outreach to people experiencing homelessness, […]
Mar. 14—For young adults exiting the foster care system, the first step into adulthood may send them stumbling into a bottomless pit. Media reports and studies indicate many of them struggle to find a place to live, a job and access to food and college. It’s like “the floor dropped out from under you,” said […]
Last month, New Zealand scrapped a law that would have gradually prohibited tobacco products by banning sales to anyone born after 2008. But Brookline, a wealthy Boston suburb, will implement a similar scheme now that the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (SJC) has cleared the way. Brookline’s bylaw, which bans sales of “tobacco or e-cigarette […]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has double checked the work of its older sibling, the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble’s measurements of the expansion rate of the universe are exemplary, the trailblazing observatory found, further ratcheting up the so-called “Hubble tension.” Putting it simply, measurements of the expansion rate of the universe, defined by a […]