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Drinkers must brace for sobering price rises this Christmas as cost of festive tipples soars
DRINKERS are being told to brace for sobering price rises this Christmas as the cost of festive tipples climbs. Booze has pushed up inflation, contributing £3 to every £100 of UK price rises, research by the Scotch Whisky Association shows. Sign...
Business news: Franciscan offers suicide prevention course and VU, Harper College establish pathway
PNW math instructor named to NASA project Purdue University Northwest mathematics faculty member Grethe Hystad, associate professor of Statistics in the College of Engineering and Sciences, has been selected to join a team of multidisciplinary...
Food pantries see more people amid SNAP benefit suspension
CABELL COUNTY, W.Va . (WSAZ) - Nov. 1 is the first day of the suspension of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. It is leaving people across the region wondering where their next meal is coming from. As the second-longest...
Weekly Cotton Review: Markets remain stable amid favourable business environment
KARACHI: Domestic markets have witnessed an overall trend of stability in cotton prices while the business environment has remained favourable. Internationally, cotton prices displayed a mixed trend which also impacted local markets. The...
Varun Beverages in talks with partner PepsiCo for its foray into hard drinks
New Delhi: PepsiCo and Varun Beverages (VBL), its largest bottling partner outside the US, are in discussions to expand their partnership to distribute and sell alcoholic drinks in India. "We are talking to PepsiCo if we can start with some of...
SGBC Business Summit announces weekend lineup
VALDOSTA – The Southern Georgia Black Chambers announces the full weekend lineup for the 2025 Small Business Summit & Expo. SGBC’s 2025 Summit & Expo, Presented by Langdale Hyundai, Offers Free Public Access to Experts on AI, Government Contracts,...
From perfect beer with a pasty to tipple to pair with Greggs sausage rolls… best drinks to match to ‘picky bits’ snacks
FROM scampi fries to pork scratchings, we’ve all got our favourite pub snacks. But when it comes to drinking at home, there’s a whole range of pairing combinations that you probably haven’t thought about. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Thank...
Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water for 6m people
Esme Stallard,Climate and science reporter, BBC News and Becky Dale and Wesley Stephenson,Senior data journalists, BBC Verify ShareSave Water companies have been ordered to tackle potentially harmful levels of so-called forever chemicals in...
OREGON: Hazelnut Orchard Buy Could Save City Drinking Water
EUGENE, Oregon, October 31, 2025 (ENS) – The Upper Willamette Soil & Water Conservation District, UWSWCD, is planning to acquire a 200+ acre hazelnut orchard located on the lower McKenzie River to protect the drinking water of Eugene, a college...
Birkin International Hotel Launches Food Bank Program and Achieves ASEAN Record for ESG Systems Deployment at Opening
MALACCA, Malaysia, Nov. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Birkin International Hotel today marked a historic milestone with the official launch of its Food Bank Program and the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Secretariat of Domestic...
“Super Bowl of food distribution” for CalFresh SNAP recipients most in need
As Californians began to feel the reality of no CalFresh SNAP benefits, this weekend, there was an unannounced, by invitation, mass food distribution in the parking lot of Snapdragon Stadium Sunday. The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank...
Fort McMurray's Play 103.7 and Cruz FM collect 582 pounds of food in Trick or Eat campaign
Fort McMurray Trick or Eat collects 582 pounds of food for local food bank FORT McMURRAY — A Halloween food drive led by local radio stations and supported by industry partners brought in hundreds of pounds of donations for the Wood Buffalo Food...
The woes of business travel: Strategies for travel lag and jet lag
Naples airport. Image by Tim Sandle What is the difference between travel lag and jet lag? After identifying this, what can business travellers can do to reduce the negative impact? To help answer this, Digital Journal has heard from Laura Busby,...
Evanston food drive overwhelms 'in the best possible way' as SNAP recipients face uncertainty
Valerie Khan stood in the Evanston Township High School parking lot Sunday afternoon trying to figure out more places to send food, toiletries and other supplies she and others had been taking in from hundreds of donors in the few hours they had...
GPA donates food items, shoes to nonprofits as it wraps up Public Power Week
The Guam Power Authority wrapped up its 2025 Public Power Week community donation drives, closing out a month-long effort to collect food and shoes for local nonprofit partners supporting Guam’s most vulnerable families and children. GPA, in a...
Nonprofit launches countywide food drive in wake of SNAP suspensions
White Pony Express vans on display during the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new WPE headquarters at 2470 Bates Ave. in Concord on Aug. 23, 2024. WPE delivers surplus food to organizations serving those in need. (Photo by Ray Saint Germain/Bay...
Lowndes 411, Second Harvest releases food resource lists
VALDOSTA – Lowndes County 411 and Second Harvest of South Georgia is providing food resource lists for those in need. Lowndes County 411 has released a list of how and where food can be obtained for those in need. Second Harvest of South Georgia...
NGOs warn inaction on food waste is ‘feeding climate change’
Inaction on food waste and loss by many nations is "seriously risking food security, whilst feeding climate change", a group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have warned. They have highlighted that global food loss and waste is estimated...
Nonprofit in Montgomery County offers food donations for furloughed federal
Around 1/3 of Montgomery County's workforce consists of federal employees or contractors. 68,000 people in the county rely on SNAP benefits. NORTH BETHESDA, Md. — Finding food is something many federal workers and contractors in Montgomery County...
New comfort food chain to open in Kingston soon and it could operate until 4am
A comfort food chain is set to open a new branch in Kingston in the coming weeks, according to one of the site's builders. Cheatmeals, which will be located in 54 Fife Road, dubs itself as "Your Cheat Day Destination with Branches in London and...