BEIJING, Feb 10 (Reuters) - China and Russia are still in protracted price negotiations for a tentative gas supply deal, the official China Daily reported on Wednesday, citing a Russian official. The world's largest natural gas producer signed a gas supply agreement in October 2009 to supply 70 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year to China from Siberia and the Russian Far East, including ...

University officials are preparing to propose housing rate increases at the Board of Regents meeting next week. The Board of Regents, the highest decision-making body of the university system, typically does not turn down a proposal by university administration. The raise will be 2.5 percent for rooms at residence halls, 3 percent for apartments and 2.5 percent for meal plans, according to the ...

The Town of Lockport Industrial Development Agency is considering extending Lockport Energy Associates property tax-exempt status a while longer.

COCOA Voters in May will head to the polls for a special election after council members tasked with appointing a representative to a vacant District 3 seat deadlocked Tuesday.

ELBURN After a decade of operating on separate channels, the villages police might soon gain an easier means of communication with Elburns firefighters and paramedics.

Prime Minister George Papandreous drive to get Greeces ballooning budget under control will be challenged in the streets today as striking labor unions shut down schools, hospitals and flights.

Legislation for the Healthcare Identifiers Bill has today been introduced into parliament.

Dubai apartment prices may fall by 20%

SAN BERNARDINO A massive solar project planned near the California-Nevada border projected to generate 1,000 construction jobs wont move forward without resistance from San Bernardino County supervisors. On Tuesday the county Board of...

As construction crews drive in the pilings for the new Henry Mayfield Elementary to be built off U.S. Highway 190 in Slidell, a committee is doing its own work to hammer out the boundaries for the school.

Gov. Ed Rendell unveiled a $29 billion spending plan Tuesday that would funnel more money in 2010-11 to schools, prisons and health care for the poor, while not increasing taxes, but local state legislators are already questioning where the money will come from.

CLEVELAND Cavaliers guard Delonte West is still awaiting medical clearance to play.

COQUILLE -- Coos County commissioners say they have no intention of selling the Beaver Hill Disposal Site to a private trash collection company.

Vodacom hopes Icasa will respond quickly to its plan to cut mobile termination rates.

Photo by Keri Wood - California High-Speed Rail Authority Deputy Director Dan Leavitt, left, discusses the section of Californias planned high-speed rail system between Sacramento and Merced. One currently proposed route would go through Elk Grove, and another would go through Sheldon and Wilton.

Pennridge School District plans to begin offering more information to local residents on how the pension crisis may impact them directly.

With objections raised to having Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents Day and Good Friday as snow days, Midland Independent School District trustees approved the 2010-2011 calendar in a 4-3 vote.

Just two years after JetBlue opened its gleaming $743 million terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the airline is poised to move its headquarters possibly out of the state.

The 122nd International Olympic Committee session kicks off with a cultural event in downtown Vancouver and recognition of the efforts put forth by organizers John Furlong and the late Jack Poole.

China will strive to integrate its regional cable TV operators and work out a draft plan of its national cablevision network firm which is considered an uphill task due to regulatory overlap, analysts said.

Congratulations to the 6th grade boys CVAA Basketball Team for winning the Bowring tournament. They were undefeated, taking home the first place trophy.

LONDON (SHARECAST) - Northern Rock is preparing to remove the blanket guarantee on its deposits in a key move that will help to prepare for the sale of the nationalised bank.

The Bartlesville City Council was updated on a number of projects during a meeting earlier this week.

DES MOINES A pair of proposals to change the structure of the Iowa Supreme Court spring from their sponsors sense there is a disconnect between Iowans and their court.

CALGARY, Canada, February 10 /PRNewswire/ -- (TSX - PMT.UN) - Paramount Energy Trust ("PET" or the "Trust") is pleased to confirm that its distribution to be paid on March 15, 2010 in respect of income received by PET for the month of February 2010, for Unitholders of record on February 23, 2010 will be $0.05 per Trust Unit. The ex-distribution date is February 19, 2010. The February ...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) Voters would elect a state secretary of agriculture every four years under legislation awaiting a committee hearing in the South Dakota House.

With costs coming in at about $1.5 million less than was originally anticipated, the Township Committee unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday to authorize a contract with P&A Construction Inc. for the Claremont sewer project and subsequent paving of roads in the area, with a projected starting time of the end of February.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Gov. Ed Rendell on Tuesday presented lawmakers with a $29 billion spending plan that would devote more money to schools, prisons and health care for the poor while taxing the sale of many services for the first time.

Claudia and Phyllis Francis Queens track and field answer to that other sisterly-combo, Venus and Serena Williams are fast becoming the busiest women in high school sports.

The earliest look at a local school budget for next year in Indiana County came Monday evening at the Indiana Area school board meeting.