Sutter Medical Center in Santa Rosa has taken the entire Sonoma County health-care industry for a ride these past two years with its ever-changing plans to build a new hospital.

Elevator installation is a mature business, yet change is under way as office space and energy get pricey. Most buildings that are taller than four stories use traction elevators. A motor at the top of the shaft turns a sheave--essentially a pulley--that raises and lowers cables attached to the cab and a counterweight. Gears connect the motor and sheave in slower systems. Faster elevators are ...

Selecting the top news story of 2008 was an easy task for The Sun’s reporters and editors. The national economic malaise and its effect on our towns topped just about everyone’s list. After that, it was harder reaching a consensus.

Each year some stories grab the readers' attention more than others and 2008 was no exception. The following are the Sun-Sailor's list of the top five stories of 2008. Hopefully these are some of the stories that grabbed your attention.

People who hate negative news have to be rejoicing over the top Plymouth news story in 2008. The city was named "America's Best Place to Live" by Money magazine, whose August issue featured pictures and a story citing the reasons Plymouth was named to the No. 1 spot.

Jan 8 (Reuters) - The following were the top stories in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. * Delinquencies on mortgages for hotels, shopping malls and office buildings were sharply higher in the fourth quarter. * The chairman of Satyam Computer Services Ltd, one of India's largest technology companies said he ...

Among the earnings projection stories for Wednesday, Jan. 7, from AP Financial News: Top stories: HOPKINTON, Mass. -- Data storage company EMC says it expects fourth-quarter earnings to beat Wall Street expectations on growing sales.

"Rare is the industry story so far reaching that we know ahead of time that it is likely to repeat its entry on the list at a later date." This is what BOP prophetically (it's what we do) said on January 1, 2008. Guess what. We were right.

The chairman of an Indian technology giant resigned Wednesday just weeks after the World Bank admitted, in the wake of a series of stories by FOX News, that it had banned his firm as a vendor last February for improper financial dealings.

Year-end reviews of top news stories often reek of gloom and doom. Not so with top science/technology stories. Lists assembled by scientific organizations and publications tend to glow with discovery and promise. A small sampling makes the point. Major advances in geneticists’ ability to reprogram living cells made most of those ...