He's the man who relentlessly pushed a failed balanced budget amendment over and over for more than a quarter-century in Congress, and stuck by traditional resource industries even as the national environmental tide turned against them. So while the nation puzzles over Craig's continued efforts to avoid ending his career in the disgrace of a sex-solicitation scandal despite nationwide humiliation as the story drags on, scorn from his own party and the possibility of hurting its chances in...

The consensus that he is most interested in creating is a shared belief that he should continue as Prime Minister Andrew Rawnsley Sunday September 9, 2007 The Observer Before Gordon Brown moved into Number 10, there was a joke circulating among fearful civil servants and scared ministers. The consensus that he is most interested in creating is a shared belief that he should continue as Prime Minister Andrew Rawnsley Sunday September 9, 2007 The Observer Before Gordon Brown moved into...

The leaders said it was critical to achieve early progress in the contentious sectors of agriculture and industrial products, and said their ministers would resume talks on the basis of proposed compromises on agriculture and non-agricultural markets. Bush, who left the summit a day earlier to prepare for a key report on Iraq, said Washington was ready to be flexible and called the troubled Doha talks a "once-in-a-generation opportunity. Trade diplomats returned to the negotiating table...

Ten years ago they were gluing together pieces of wood veneer and brainstorming around the kitchen table with Bigsby's father and fourth entrepreneur. Gerlach and Bigsby resigned their teaching positions and in September 2005, with $900,000 in investments from friends, family and fellow teachers, moved out of the garage they were using and into a 15,000-square-foot, North Okanagan factory that was previously a wholesale bakery. It's cutlery that composts naturally and could lessen the...

There are 2,762 firefighters battling this blaze that is burning heavy timber with 80 percent slopes and extreme fire behavior. In the next 72 hours, a Southeast wind influence and lower humidity expected to continue, which could cause significant spread of the fire to the Southwest. Forest Service website, "Low humidity and critical fuel moisture levels are causing the fire to remain very active well into the night. Construction of fire line to the east continues, and numerous air tankers...