Fire service decides on cutbacks
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A fire service authority is expected to announce cuts due to the reduction of local authority funding.
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US emergency cut in response to weakening economic outlook and recession fears
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Government safety regulators are considering a new fire safety standard for mattresses that officials say could save hundreds of lives a year.
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With the firesâ advance slowed by a decline in the Santa Ana winds and with cooler weather moving in, another phase of firefighting has begun.
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The government is considering a reduction in the current number of  district councils from 26 to seven.
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Social services could bear the brunt of cutbacks as an under-fire council looks to put right its education service.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The Governor General is cutting back on winter parties, staff training courses and renovation plans.
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Chief Constable Hugh Orde makes his decision on the future of the full-time police reserve.
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After a five-year fight, the U.S. government has dropped its effort to prevent a volunteer firefighter killed at the World Trade Center from receiving a federal death benefit for public safety officers who die on the job.
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The announcement angered many employees, who are threatening to strike, but the British Broadcasting Corporation said the cutbacks were necessary.
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Fire crews work to minimise damage after blaze at Europe's largest cancer hospital
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Some businesses in California will likely be forced to cut electricity use on Thursday because hot weather and high air-conditioning use could prompt the state's power grid manager to call a "Stage 2 power emergency."
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Kodak said the reductions are because of the increasing popularity of digital photography. The cutbacks are part of the three-year program Kodak announced in January to reduce its
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By GILLIAN FLACCUS RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A blaze that killed five federal firefighters last year has emboldened those who question the cost of saving the ever expanding number of homes on the fringe of wilderness.
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Federal land management agencies are being asked to make more employees available to fight wildfires because crews and equipment have been stretched to the limit by nearly 60 major blazes around the West.
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The reduction of a little more than 6 percent of its work force was part of a cost-cutting program designed to save $700 million by 2009.
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Natural gas service had been turned off nearly two years ago at a house where a woman and six children died in a fire and another person was seriously injured, officials said Sunday.