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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California lawmakers on Monday rejected a proposal aimed at cracking down on how some of the nation's largest utilities spend customers' money. California's investor-owned ut...

TRIANGLE, Virginia (AP) - President Joe Biden marked Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income commu...

OTTAWA - Canada is seeking to get a better handle on how much plastic is being produced in the country by forcing companies that make it to report annually on what they produce. Environment Minister S...

TORONTO - Honda Canada is set to build an electric vehicle battery plant near its auto manufacturing facility in Alliston, Ont., where it also plans to produce fully electric vehicles, The Canadian Pr...

As the federal government touts measures meant to curb the cost of Canadians' cellphone bills, some say there is a disconnect between what consumers are paying and the rhetoric surrounding price decli...

MONTREAL - Unionized workers at an Airbus assembly plant north of Montreal have rejected a contract offer for the third time. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which r...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rarely a day goes without President Joe Biden mentioning insulin prices. He promotes a $35 price cap for the medication for Americans on Medicare - in White House speeches, campaign ...

OTTAWA - Worried artificial intelligence is coming for your job? So is the federal government - enough, at least, to set aside $50 million for skills retraining for workers. One of the centrepiece pro...

OTTAWA - Negotiators from 176 countries will gather in downtown Ottawa this week for the fourth round of talks to create a global treaty to eliminate plastic waste in less than 20 years. Ottawa is hos...

HONOLULU (AP) - Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving as a single mother of two to buy a house in the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But after a devastating fire leveled Lahai...