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What to know about Boulder, Colorado, the Sundance Film Festival's new home

What to know about Boulder, Colorado, the Sundance Film Festival's new home

The Sundance Film Festival is Boulder bound, leaving its home of four decades in Park City, Utah, for a new chapter in neighboring Colorado. Organizers announced their decision Thursday after a yearlong search in which numerous U.S.
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RCMP take down large, 'complex' cannabis network in Ontario, seize 17,000 plants

RCMP take down large, 'complex' cannabis network in Ontario, seize 17,000 plants

TORONTO — Ontario RCMP announced Thursday they have charged six people and destroyed nearly 17,000 cannabis plants across three large-scale illegal grow sites in the province, part of a "complex illicit cannabis production and distribution network.
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Alberta aims to regulate online gambling market, capture lost revenue under new bill

Alberta aims to regulate online gambling market, capture lost revenue under new bill

EDMONTON — Alberta's government is looking to regulate private online gambling websites and apps in a move it says will capture lost revenue and protect bettors.
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Florida lawmakers defy DeSantis in rift over state budget

Florida lawmakers defy DeSantis in rift over state budget

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Once floated as the heir to Donald Trump’s GOP, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is used to getting his way in Tallahassee.
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Mexican drug lord charged with killing DEA agent could face death penalty

Mexican drug lord charged with killing DEA agent could face death penalty

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors are considering seeking the death penalty against Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero in a sprawling case that includes the 1985 killing of an agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Assistant U.S.
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3D printed and factory-built homes could help tackle housing crisis

3D printed and factory-built homes could help tackle housing crisis

DENVER (AP) — As Americans struggle under backbreaking rental prices , builders are turning to innovative ways to churn out more housing, from 3D printing to assembling homes in an indoor factory to using hemp — yes, the marijuana cousin — to make bu
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Virginia's governor is again at odds with Democrats as he vetoes labor and gun reform

Virginia's governor is again at odds with Democrats as he vetoes labor and gun reform

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has vetoed a slew of bills reforming labor and gun laws, blocking Democrats’ attempts to reintroduce legislation nearly identical to what they proposed unsuccessfully last year.
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Astros release first baseman Jon Singleton

HOUSTON (AP) — First baseman Jon Singleton was released Tuesday by the Houston Astros. Singleton had hit .171 with a .239 on-base percentage, no homers and two RBIs in 17 spring training games. The 33-year-old batted .234 with a .
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Republican truck driver Ed Durr ends bid to be New Jersey governor and backs Bill Spadea

Republican truck driver Ed Durr ends bid to be New Jersey governor and backs Bill Spadea

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Republican Ed Durr, the delivery truck driver who defeated the top Democratic lawmaker in 2021, said Monday he's ending his bid to win the GOP nomination in this year's governor's race.
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Some voters are pushing back on lawmakers' efforts to overturn citizen ballot initiatives

Some voters are pushing back on lawmakers' efforts to overturn citizen ballot initiatives

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — One by one, each of the more than 50 people seated on folding chairs at a public library explained why they were there. “I'm just really upset about our voting rights being taken away from us,” one woman said.
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