Developers and preservationists are accustomed to butting heads on issues of the arboreal variety. But on one point both groups agree: Dallas' tree ordinance is lacking. Developers denounce the many hoops they're forced to jump through as they try to

Local toll road officials broke the news with a grimace: The cost to use North Texas toll roads will be going up. It wasn't a news flash that Dallas-area motorists took well. Fire-breathing comments ignited the Transportation Blog at Dallasnews.com.

Fossil fuels like oil and coal yield the least expensive energy, the power every nation needs. And burning them emits carbon dioxide and a host of pollutants. Less pollution, on its own, is a worthy goal. So is less carbon

If you believe energy efficiency and national security are separate topics, never to be conflated, think again. America's energy choices affect its troops on the ground, its foreign policy options and, as noted yesterday, the nation's overall economic well being.

State Farm is masterful at working the legal system. For six years, it has danced in and out of court to thwart the Texas insurance department's order to refund millions to policyholders in alleged overcharges. State Farm says it has

NORTHERN Ireland has always been one enormous paradox. How else can you describe a country celebrated in equal measure for its "craic" and for the seething hatred whic

THERE was real anger in that voice. And with justification. The sacking of more than 600 contractors from the Lindsey oil refinery this week was seen as more than just an ord

THE thing about soldiers is they have to tell it like it is. There is no point being evasive or gilding the lily under fire. It can get you killed. So if things aren't go

HOW many photographs exist of Alex Salmond eating? There must be hundreds. Alex eating pies. Alex eating curries (lots of those). Alex eating ice cream cones. There wa

LAST Christmas, Labour MPs all celebrated the festive season in the usual manner: they issued greetings to their constituents, praised local medical staff during the holiday p

ALEX Salmond is continuing to reject calls for him to open up his diaries, amid evidence he claimed for food costs at Westminster two years ago despite rarely attending the Co

SCOTS MPs are channelling hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money to their local parties with payments for rent, utility bills and other "services", e

GORDON Brown has triggered fresh calls for an early general election after he admitted yesterday that he had no interest in the trappings of power and could walk away from Dow

COSTS at the Whitehall department which covers Scottish affairs have "spiralled out of control" according to the SNP.

Pakistanis are writing reams to thank Hollywood power couple Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt for donating a million dollar to assist people displaced by the military operations against the Taliban in the country's northwest.

Sri Lanka plans to hold elections in the country's north -- formerly controlled by the defeated LTTE -- within four months to ensure "legitimate" political leadership in the Tamil-dominated area which was "destroyed" by Tiger chief V Prabhakaran.

US President Barack Obama said that his administration has no intention to send American troops to Pakistan amid growing speculation that Washington could be preparing to help Islamabad as its army steps up the offensive against the Taliban militants in

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on Friday asked External Affairs Minister S M Krishna to prevail upon the Sri Lankan government to allow unloading of a ship carrying relief materials sent by overseas Tamil diaspora for civilians displaced due to the

US President Barack Obama exuded confidence that the nuclear weapons of Pakistan are safe and secure, about which a lot of concerns have been expressed in the recent past. "I have confidence that the Pakistani government has safeguarded its nuclear

THOUSANDS of people hit by redundancy are to benefit from a £3 million training scheme, it has been announced.