The Delta News

Russia has delayed, for at least a few months, starting construction of their fourth Borei class SSBN .

Delta Air Lines Inc. and its SkyTeam alliance partners said that they would provide a $1.02 billion funding package to ailing carrier Japan Airlines Corp.

On Nov. 4, the Legislature passed the most important water reform legislation in a quarter century.

Switching and rolling positions forward contributed to mixed settlements last week as cotton futures posted losses in nearby contracts and gains in deferred deliveries.

A strike at a parts supplier in India has forced General Motors Co.'s Lansing Delta Township plant to temporarily shut down next week.

Last week, I published an opinion piece about why swine flu shouldn't fly . No sooner had my post hit cyberspace than I received a copy of a letter sent by the husband of an infected passenger who had been socked with a $200 fee to change her tickets.

The Delta Airlines direct link between Malaga and New York, re-launched in June 2008, is to end for the winter, although the company foresees restarting the route at the end of March 2010.

California lawmakers are closer than they have ever been to a water deal that could bring real relief to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and improve the state's use of water.

State Assemblyman Bill Berryhill recently sent out a "Berryhill Bulletin" blasting the peripheral canal.

In 2004, music writer Elijah Wald released Escaping The Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues , which trenchantly revised decades of mythology masquerading as history.

IS WORKING TO GET MORE AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES IN COLLEGE. MISSISSIPPI DELTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE JUST RECEIVED A $600,000 GRANT FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO HELP INCREASE THE PRESENCE OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES ON THEIR CAMPUS.

Check out The Kennedys tonight at the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship. The concert is part of The Minstrel Acoustic Concert Series, which The Folk Project hosts Friday nights all year long.

Chippewa Falls businessman Tim Callahan is enthusiastic that Chicago may soon replace Minneapolis as the daily hub out of the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport.

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It's been said many times: Delta levees are crumbling. A big earthquake could swamp multiple islands, some of which won't be worth reclaiming.

The White House has released the transcript of President Obama's highly controversial back-to-school speech to be given Tuesday morning.

Yesterday, Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes promised federal involvement and more public discussions regarding the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan.

College students are increasingly paying more for their education, but it appears they are not getting the same value in return.

So, NASA's proposed Ares rockets are not the only way to get people and cargo to the moon.

The city last year dabbled in the idea of a downtown concert series. This year it's getting serious about it.