Tensions are rising between Safeway and its Alberta workers as the company looks to claw back a wage increase after negotiations on a new collective agreement hit a standstill.

Albertsons Cos., which owns Albertsons and Safeway supermarkets, cited productivity needs in laying off 225 workers at an office in north Phoenix.

Albertsons Cos., which owns Albertsons and Safeway supermarkets, cited productivity needs in laying off 225 workers at an office in north Phoenix.

A KQED analysis revealed workers at the Safeway facility had the highest injury rate out of large warehouses in 2022, with incidents far exceeding the industry average.

Safeway supermarket along the Fillmore commercial corridor. Soon, shoppers will have to pick up their prescription medications elsewhere, too, as a pharmacy chain closes two nearby locations. Residents from three neighborhoods surrounding the soon-to-close supermarket at 1335 Webster St.

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Albertsons Cos. Inc., which includes Safeway, has laid off more than 200 employees from its corporate workforce in Phoenix.

A 43-year-old man accused of shooting and killing 53-year-old William McCreight last fall in a Millwood Safeway parking lot acted in self-defense and will not face a murder charge, according to Preston McCollam, Spokane County chief criminal deputy prosecutor.

A Fairbanks man convicted of killing one man and wounding another in a 2021 shooting at a local Safeway was sentenced this week to serve 85 years in prison. Joshua Eric Butcher, now 44, shot a customer outside and then walked into the Fairbanks store on Airport Road in November 2021 and sprayed the store with bullets from a 9 mm handgun,

Prosecutors dropped charges against a suspect in a 2024 drive-by shooting due to his death in a gang shooting at a Yakima grocery store parking lot.

Black History Month, a celebration of Black history, culture and education, kicks off on Feb. 1. Historian and author Carter G.

Green Day and Billie Eilish kicked off the FireAid benefit concert, a two-venue concert extravaganza that is raising money for Los Angeles-area wildfire relief efforts.