Leaders of homeowner groups here, disappointed in efforts to close the controversial BKK landfill, were already looking with a jaundiced eye at an agreement reached late last week among five state regulatory agencies, the city and BKK Corp. on how to control environmental problems at the dump.
of the Warsaw Pact and claimed that socialism has preserved peace in Europe for 40 years.
In a move both hailed as a compromise and denounced as the prelude to a "peacock holocaust," the City Council this week voted to allow residents offended by the city's roaming peafowl to trap and remove them from their property on a controlled basis.
A group of predominantly non-union contractors says a labor agreement in the construction of General Motors Corp.'
Clarence Pendleton, chairman of the U.S.
The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers accepted Amoco's proposal for a two-year pact, which union
General Dynamics Corp., rebounding from a Pentagon suspension, on Friday won a $1-billion contract to build all four nuclear-powered attack submarines authorized for the current fiscal year.
The Kings, coming off their best National Hockey League season since 1981, will open training camp Friday in Victoria, Canada.
Britain and Ireland today were reported to have concluded an agreement on troubled Northern Ireland that is sure to inflame Protestants who fear that it will be a first step toward reunification with the Catholic south.
Maronite Catholics in Lebanon declined to endorse a peace agreement between warring militias, saying they need more time to review the Syrian-brokered accord.
In an optimistic world report, Secretary of State George P.
with the district's 2,800 teachers following overwhelming approval of the pact by the teachers last week.
Twenty-seven California legislators, setting the stage for a meeting Tuesday with Interior Secretary Donald P.
The United Steelworkers said Saturday that its members overwhelmingly ratified a contract containing 16% pay cuts, ending a 98-day walkout against financially crippled Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp.
Cointel, a Calabasas pay-telephone distributor, said it signed a $7.8-million agreement to sell telephones to Coinphone Services, a Miami company that plans to install the equipment in Florida, Texas, New York and elsewhere.
The City Council has given final approval for a Torrance-based company to build the $130-million Towne Center development, which is expected to create 4,420 jobs and pump millions of dollars into the local economy over the next century.
A unit of the Irvine-based Fluor Corp. has been awarded a contract by the Department of Commerce to play a "significant part" in the federal government's $500-million program to improve National Weather Service facilities, according to Fluor spokesman Rick Maslin.
The Orange Unified School District's 1,100 teachers voted Friday to accept the district's latest contract offer, averting a strike that had been called for Monday.
Fluor Constructors Inc., a subsidiary of the Fluor Corp., will receive $10 million over a two-year period from the Florida Power Corp., a subsidiary of the Florida Progress Corp., to provide what a Fluor spokesman described as "standard maintenance and improvements to the performance and efficiency" at Florida Power's nuclear...
Hormel meatpackers overwhelmingly approved a tentative contract to end a bitter, yearlong strike that fractured the union, labor leaders announced Friday night.