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For many public school districts now every meal, like this Mandarin Chicken at Compass Elementary in Kansas City is the culmination of a kind of treasure hunt to source food.

Your public school kid's lunch might be served on a pizza slice box. Here's why

Labor issues are making staples of school dining hard to find, triggering the worst supply chain headaches these institutions have faced in years. "It's like a ginormous hurricane," one official says.

Inventors Show Off Their Wares At Maker Faire San Diego

The inaugural Maker Faire gets underway this weekend in Balboa Park. San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer has named it the Fall Centennial Event of 2015.

With the holidays ahead, supply chain issues will get worse before they get better

Supply chain backups are snarling ports — and are only expected to get worse before they get better.

This evidence photo from the criminal complaint of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts v. Ashley Bigsbee for illegal possession of a stolen firearm on Nov. 15, 2015, in Suffolk, Mass., shows one of ten M11 semiautomatic handguns that former Army Reserve member James Morales stole from the Lincoln Stoddard Army Reserve Center in Worcester, Mass.

Congress plans fixes for US military's AWOL weapons problems

America’s armed services will have to keep better track of their guns and explosives under changes Congress is set to require. It's one response to an AP investigation that showed firearms stolen from U.S. bases have resurfaced in violent crimes.

An ambulance crew weaves a gurney through the halls of Sparrow Hospital's emergency department in Lansing, Michigan. Overcrowding has forced the staff to triage patients, putting some in the waiting rooms and treating others on stretchers and chairs in the halls.

ERs are now swamped with seriously ill patients — but many don't even have COVID

Patients who couldn't see a doctor earlier in the pandemic or were too afraid to go to a hospital have finally become too sick to stay away. Many ERs now struggle to cope with an onslaught of need.

Katie Ruiz's ofrenda at the San Diego Botanic Garden

San Diego weekend arts events: 'Peter and the Wolf,' Katie Ruiz, Best Practice and more

This weekend in the arts: an ofrenda at San Diego Botanic Garden, Gill Sotu joins the Symphony and more.

A man works at an Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York. The retail giant faces a major labor battle with a unionization vote planned at a similar warehouse in Alabama.

Amazon Warehouse Workers To Decide Whether To Form Company's 1st U.S. Union

Although the company has unionized workers in Europe, it has held off organizing efforts here. About 6,000 workers at an Amazon facility in Alabama can cast a mail-in ballot starting Feb. 8.

Several people killed at protest held by Hezbollah supporters in Beirut

Tensions that had been building for months in Lebanon erupted in violence Thursday in Beirut. Several people were killed at a protest being held by Hezbollah supporters.

Containers are seen at the Port of Los Angeles on Sept. 28. A record number of cargo ships are stuck floating and waiting off the southern California coast amid a supply chain crisis that the Biden administration is hoping to ease.

There's a backlog at U.S. ports. Here's how Biden hopes to get you your goods, faster

President Biden addressed ongoing supply chain problems, as major retailers warn of shortages and price hikes during the upcoming holiday season.

The price of glass jars to hold pasta sauce and other products has soared during the pandemic. Sauce maker Paul Guglielmo in Rochester, N.Y. has absorbed some of the increase, but he's also raised prices for consumers.

Cargo traffic jams affect glass bottles too. Your pantry staples could cost more

Makers of everything from pasta sauce to vinegar say it's getting harder to find glass bottles for their products, and it's leading to higher prices.

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