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Plans for a short-term replenishment of a federal fund for highway and mass-transit projects moved a step forward as the U.S. Senate passed legislation that would largely concede to a competing House version. The 79-18 final vote late yesterday on an $8 billion proposal by Senators Tom Carper of Delaware and Barbara Boxer of California, both Democrats, provides enough money …

The Bank of Canada is making a molehill out of a mountain. The central bank had claimed that its new plastic $10 bank notes included an image of majestic Mount Edith Cavell, a prominent peak in the Canadian Rockies south of Jasper, Alta. But a sharp-eyed professor in Toronto, who had hiked the mountain with his family, thought something was …

Having too much to drink and losing your lunch in a taxi can now cost you more than your dignity; you could be hit with a clean-up fee. The general rule has actually always been in place, but Carolyn Bauer with the Vancouver Taxi Association says there is now a set $75 fee.

Former Fresno IRS employee Viririana Hernandez, 30, has been charged with an identity theft conspiracy that used information stolen from the files of other IRS employees, says U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner.

Fewer Canadian firms are preoccupied with cost-saving and outsourcing production to nations like China and more are focused on growth, according to a new report from consulting firm KPMG.

US stocks have surged higher as strong Google earnings and a large pharmaceutical deal offset worries about worsening international crises in Ukraine and Gaza.

Electric car enthusiasts got a fresh jolt Thursday as Tesla Motors opened its first B.C. supercharger station in Squamish.

Canada’s central bank decided to keep its benchmark interest rate at one per cent today, the same level it has been at for almost four years. The Bank of Canada announced in its latest policy decision on Wednesday that it will keep its target for the overnight rate — the yardstick against which most consumer loans are based — steady …

Canadian banks are behind their American counterparts in offering smartphone banking apps to customer, but that is about to change, say experts. Smartphone banking apps promise to be the next big thing in consumer banking, holding the promise of everything from fewer trips to the local bank branch or ATM to the convenience of tap-and-go payments at retail outlets. But …

The National Energy Board will review proposals by Chevron Corp. and Imperial Oil Ltd. for alternatives to same-season relief wells in future Arctic drilling, in the first tests of a recent change to long-standing policy.

Statistics Canada says its new housing price index rose 0.1 per cent in May, following five months of gains. The agency says the increase was largely the result of higher new home prices in the Prairie region.