OTTAWA, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- The Canadian government has a perplexing problem: how to deal with environmentally polluting emissions from its highly profitable Alberta oil fields. During a meeting this week with auto industry officials, Canada's conservative government backed away fro

SEATTLE, May 22 (UPI) -- Residents of a Seattle neighborhood facing the construction of a garbage facility are looking to native sons Pearl Jam to lead them in battle against the plan.

LOS ANGELES, June 2 (UPI) -- A diary secretly kept by a Canadian prisoner of war at the end of World War II in Germany, has been returned to the man some 60 years after he was freed. Bill Ferguson, now 93, traveled to Germany in April to collect the worn journal he hid in a barn just

DETROIT, July 9 (UPI) -- A Detroit police officer who launched a Web site with the idea of getting his boss fired has been suspended.

The ballooning numbers of sport utility vehicles, minivans and light trucks could result in the end of compact car parking spaces, The New York Times reports.

Here you are between the proverbial rock and hard spot(whack!). Those red welts are from mosquitoes. You can get the welts and such lovely diseases as malaria or West Nile virus, or you can use something with DEET in it.

NEW YORK, March 5 (UPI) --

ALL THINGS MUST PASS

TRENTON, N.J., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- In most governments, having five chief executives in little more than a week would be a sign of near-fatal instability. In New Jersey, it is simply a combinatio