Spring might be a ways off, but the Shasta Public Libraries are about to launch a first-ever seed exchange, right alongside their traditional offering of books, audiobooks, CDs and DVDs. The Redding Library at 1100 Parkview Ave. will launch its new Shasta Seed Library in February. That’s a seed distribution and sharing program for people […]
An era is coming to an end in Kansas City as the Buck O’Neil Bridge will no longer carry traffic over the Missouri River in the coming days. “It has been many years in the making and we’re finally at that point where we can switch traffic,” said James Pflum, project directer on the Buck […]
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A tropical low strengthening over the Coral Sea on Tuesday is forecast to be the second cyclone is as many months to bring destructive winds and more flooding to Australia’s northeast coast. The system expected to be named Tropical Cyclone Kirrily later Tuesday or Wednesday morning was tracking west toward the […]
(Bloomberg) — Chinese stocks in Hong Kong slumped further Monday toward their lowest level in almost two decades, as an absence of fresh economic stimulus and market support measures deepened investor pessimism. Most Read from Bloomberg The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index fell as much as 2.2%, edging closer to a level unseen since 2005 […]
The California State University chancellor Mildred Garcia on Friday expressed a desire but little hope a strike by the California Faculty Association could be averted, and put it on union officials to re-engage at the bargaining table. “We are committed to compensating employees fairly, but we are and must be equally committed to the long-term […]
Technology Street Notes By Adam Clark Jan 19, 2024, 8:10 am EST Share Reprints In this article IBM International Business Machines stock has had a great rally as the market warms up to its artificial-intelligence potential. It has won a new fan in Evercore analyst Amit Daryanani who thinks a “messy” rollout of AI is good […]
After last weekend’s forecast of 3 to 6 inches of snow and this weekend’s forecast of 1 to 4 inches, the concern isn’t the snow but an arctic blast and subzero temperatures, says National Weather Service Meteorologist Lydia Jaja. “The real story for Friday through Sunday is going to be the brutal cold. The wind […]
The timeline for selling financially troubled Northlake Mall remains uncertain but business at the north Charlotte shopping center is improving, lawyers working to sell the site told a judge Thursday. It’s been nearly three years since the two-story, 1.1-million-square-foot mall fell into receivership after failing to pay its debts. Spinoso Real Estate Group of Syracuse, […]
Colombian food is officially coming to Northern Colorado this weekend. Yellow Crunch — named for its yellow and crunchy Colombian cornmeal empanadas — plans to softly open in Old Town’s The Exchange Saturday, taking over the space formerly occupied by Chick’n Cone, according to Yellow Crunch founder Viviana Henao. The eatery will dish up Colombian […]
Tottenham have completed the signing of centre-back Radu Dragusin from Genoa in a move which has paved the way for Eric Dier to join Bayern Munich. Romania international Dragusin has put pen to paper on a six-and-a-half-year deal at Spurs and is the club’s second addition of the January transfer window after Timo Werner’s arrival […]
Sixty years after it brought a touch of the Space Age to Orlando, the distinctive spire on top of The Plaza Live is spinning once more. Applause and champagne greeted the return of the iconic feature in Orlando’s Milk District, east of downtown, Wednesday evening as city Mayor Buddy Dyer led a countdown to set […]
Contract negotiations between California State University leaders and its faculty union hit a brick wall Tuesday morning, pushing the 23 campuses closer to what would be the first ever systemwide faculty strike. CSU officials announced in a statement Tuesday morning that they were ending the current round of negotiations by giving all university faculty, librarians, […]