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India's Modi focuses on jobs creation in first budget after winning polls

India's Modi focuses on jobs creation in first budget after winning polls

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s newly formed government presented an annual budget to Parliament that raises spending to generate more jobs and spur economic growth, while aiming to appease coalition partners it needs to stay i
Toronto is vulnerable to climate-fuelled floods. What will make it more resilient?

Toronto is vulnerable to climate-fuelled floods. What will make it more resilient?

TORONTO — Toronto city councillors, who presided last week over a city of inundated transit stations, roadways and basements, are set to discuss how to make the metropolis more resilient to climate-fuelled floods.
In Washington state, Inslee's final months aimed at staving off repeal of landmark climate law

In Washington state, Inslee's final months aimed at staving off repeal of landmark climate law

SILVERDALE, Wash. (AP) — Standing at a transit center near four new wireless bus charging stations in a small community west of Seattle, Gov. Jay Inslee told transit and city leaders where money to pay for them — more than $1 million — came from.
Wildfires plague the West amid a scorching heat wave and high winds

Wildfires plague the West amid a scorching heat wave and high winds

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — At least a half-dozen homes lay in ruins Monday after one of many dangerous wildfires in the West suddenly swept into a Southern California neighborhood during a blistering heat wave.

Billion-dollar Mitsubishi chemical plant economically questionable, energy group says

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A $1.

New Mexico village battered by wildfires in June now digging out from another round of flooding

RUIDOSO, N.M.
Calgary's restrictions on sprinkler and water hose use to remain until further notice

Calgary's restrictions on sprinkler and water hose use to remain until further notice

CALGARY — Calgary's outdoor water restrictions will remain in place for now. The city has been cautiously testing the water system in recent days, and says there were issues at both water treatment plants, including pumps at water intakes.
No prison for a nursing home owner who sent 800 residents to ride out a hurricane in squalor

No prison for a nursing home owner who sent 800 residents to ride out a hurricane in squalor

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana businessman who sent more than 800 elderly residents from his seven nursing homes to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse pleaded no contest to 15 criminal counts Monday and was sentenced to three
CN Rail fined $8M for crude oil spills related to 2015 train derailments

CN Rail fined $8M for crude oil spills related to 2015 train derailments

TIMMINS, ONT. — Canadian National Railway Co. has been ordered to pay $8 million in fines for environmental offences related to two 2015 train derailments.
More zebra mussels found in Manitoba, this time in a popular reservoir

More zebra mussels found in Manitoba, this time in a popular reservoir

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is dealing with another discovery of zebra mussels. The province says two positive samples have been detected in the St.
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