WASHINGTON - The nation's first stair-climbing wheelchair hit the market with a bang but disappeared with a whimper, a casualty of price that raises a big question: How much will society agree to pay for high-tech help for the disabled?

An accident occurred Wednesday afternoon around 1 p.m. at Fairview Avenue and Roop Street. Traffic is flowing, but proceed with caution. Neither driver was injured, a Highway Patrol spokesman said.

RENO - Federal regulators have fined Newmont Mining Corp. more than $500,000 for safety violations they say contributed to the death of a worker at an underground gold mine in Nevada.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The husband of Sen. John Ensign's former mistress says the Nevada Republican paid the woman $25,000 in severance when she stopped working for the senator.

L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) - President Barack Obama joined other leaders of the industrialized world Wednesday in backing new targets for battling global warming. But the wealthy nations were unable to persuade leaders of developing countries to...

The frequency of strikes by both the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and their non-academic counterparts says much about the unenviable state of tertiary education in the country. Our concern here is not necessarily the merit or otherwise of

THE on- going strike embarked upon by medical health workers of teaching hospitals across the country has paralysed activities at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), as hundreds of patients were discharged yesterday due to absence of nurses and

Deputy Minister of Public Works, Hendrietta Bogane-Zulu, says government will intervene if the need arises in negotiations to end the strike in the construction industry.

The Chinese aggression to control markets in Africa and gain a foothold on the mineral wealth of the continent, is gaining notoriety, especially in Ghana, as foreign nationals, believed to be Chinese, are taking advantage of the remoteness of the

Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Wednesday moved to end boardroom wars between ministers and their permanent secretaries over the hiring of parastatal chiefs.

The man who was convicted in a fatal amusement park stabbing in Ottawa's east end has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

People looking up to the skies in Ottawa Wednesday afternoon could get a glimpse of some funnel clouds, Environment Canada has said. If those clouds form, there is a chance they could touch down in the form of a weak

A new report about young people and skin cancer has one Ottawa councillor calling for a minimum age requirement at Ottawa's tanning salons.

The nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ont. - normally a major world supplier of medical isotopes - will be out of service until at least late 2009, AECL officials said Wednesday.

Drivers making their way through one Gatineau, Que., neighbourhood will have to press a little harder on their brakes this year.

A Boston subway trolley driver investigators say was sending a text message when the car he was operating plowed into the back of another train has been indicted.

A former New York City nightclub bouncer has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the brutal murder of a graduate student from Boston.

Carmen "The Cheese Man" DiNunzio, the reputed underboss of the New England mob, will spend the next six years in federal prison.

I can't imagine why someone so little known would want to use up one of their few guaranteed bursts of media attention by announcing their intention to run during one of the slowest news weeks of the year.

Massachusetts is suing the federal government over a law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.