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Average US gasoline price jumps 39 cents to $5.10 per gallon

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline spiked 39 cents over the past three weeks to $5.10 per gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the price jump comes amid higher crude oil costs and tight gasoline supplies. The average price at the pump is $1.97 higher than it was one year ago. Nationwide, the highest average price for regular-grade gas is in the San Francisco Bay Area, at $6.55 per gallon. The lowest average is in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at $4.43 per gallon. According to the survey, the average ...

German minister rejects calls to tax growing oil profits

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's finance minister on Tuesday rejected calls by some in the country's governing parties to tax what they call "excessive profits" earned by oil companies since Russia's war in Ukraine spiked energy prices. Suggestions for such a tax by some politicians in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats and the Greens have laid bare ideological differences between those two center-left parties and Finance Minister Christian Lindner's pro-business Free Democrats. A three-month cut in fuel taxes took effect last week as part of a wider package of measures aimed at ...

Oil industry prepares for restrictions to conserve bird

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — Lesser prairie chickens once numbered in the thousands throughout the American West, thriving on the prairielands of eastern New Mexico and the American West. But in recent years, the chicken's numbers declined amid growing development in the oil and gas and agriculture sectors throughout the region and conservationists worried the unique bird could be in danger of extinction. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed federal protections for the species last year under the Endangered Species Act, seeking an endangered listing for the bird in southeast New ...

Runnings to build new store in Canby

CANBY — “We’re not like any other Runnings” store, said manager Becky Moorse of the Canby Runnings location. The store was opened in 1972, and over the past 50 years, it has expanded into three additional buildings in Canby’s downtown. But still, space is tight in the interior and ...

NY girding for shark season with more drones, vigilance

MELVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A number of factors, including warming ocean temperatures, are contributing to an expected proliferation of sharks along the New York coastline this summer. In response, the state has expanded a drone program designed to keep track of them. The Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation bought two more drones over the winter and trained eight more people to operate them, and by July 4th will have bought three additional drones and trained 10 more operators, Newsday reported. Scientists say sharks are swimming north to cooler waters earlier than ...

Georgia mayor hopeful floats plan to rework long-closed mall

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A candidate in a runoff for mayor of Georgia's third-largest city is announcing a plan to redevelop a site where a long-vacant mall stood until 2020. Steven Kendrick of Augusta made the announcement last week, with several Augusta commissioners. The redevelopment plan for the Regency Mall's site would include 1,000 two-bedroom apartments, a K-12 school, a 300-seat performing arts center, a restaurant, a grocery store and a fitness center, news outlets report. "The growth and revitalization of South Augusta is just beginning," Kendrick told local news outlets ...