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Hershey's first new factory in its hometown in more than 30 years, a 250,000-square-foot plant that makes the chocolate for Reese's, Kit Kat, Symphony and Special Dark, opened with Governor Josh Shapiro. It is Hershey's first fully integrated digital plant and brings more than 125 jobs.

Hershey closed its acquisition of organic popcorn and puffs maker LesserEvil, paying $769 million in cash up front with up to $200 million more if earnings targets are met. The brand joins SkinnyPop and Dot's Pretzels and lifted Hershey's salty snacks sales by about 22% in the second quarter of 2026.

The Middle East's largest liquids-rich shale gas play came on stream with a first phase of about 450 million cubic feet a day, the start of a ramp to 2 billion cubic feet a day of sales gas by 2030.

The light rail line runs almost 11 kilometres from Finch West station on Line 1 at Keele Street west to Humber College Station, with 18 stops along the way. The TTC runs it day to day, with trains every six and a half minutes at rush hour.

Oregon opened its commercial Dungeness crab season on 16 December 2025 from Cape Falcon to the California border, 15 days after its 1 December target, while the north coast waited for Washington crab to fill out.

Copenhagen pledged in 2009 to become the world's first carbon-neutral capital city by 2025, aiming to offset its remaining emissions with a waste-to-energy plant's carbon-capture system.

The first Six Flags park in Asia opened outside Riyadh with 28 attractions across six themed areas, among them Falcons Flight, billed as the world's tallest, fastest and longest roller coaster. Qiddiya Investment Company awarded a $1 billion construction contract to Almabani General Contractors and Bouygues Batiment International in December 2021.

The last section of the 57.7-kilometre Mexico-Toluca commuter railway, from Santa Fe into the rebuilt Observatorio terminal, was inaugurated, finishing a line that had been opening in stages from Zinacantepec since 2023. Its estimated cost climbed from $38.6 billion MXN in 2014 to $73.72 billion MXN by 2019.

The 82.15 km semi-high-speed corridor from Sarai Kale Khan in Delhi to Modipuram in Meerut, with 16 stations, two depots and Alstom trainsets running at 160 km/h, became fully operational, covering the distance in under an hour. Deutsche Bahn's Indian subsidiary runs it for the National Capital Region Transport Corporation.

The opening night of Bruno Mars' five-show Toronto stand, the most any artist has booked at Rogers Stadium on one tour, was called off for bad weather on 23 May and moved to 31 May.

An IndiGo flight from Lucknow landed on the first day of scheduled service at the National Capital Region's second airport, whose first phase has one 3,900 m runway and a 101,590 sq m terminal for 12 million passengers a year, designed by Grimshaw with Nordic, Haptic and STUP. Zurich Airport International holds the 40-year concession, and the DGCA granted the aerodrome licence on 6 March 2026.

Morocco's wind-powered Dakhla seawater desalination plant (112,000 m3/day, 60 MW wind farm) was due to open at the end of 2025, then mid-2026; on 21 May 2026 its reverse osmosis units were installed and membranes still being fitted, and no start of operations had been reported by 19 October 2026.

Enel North America began building the Ables Springs project in Kaufman County, Texas, in March 2024 with 186 MW of solar and a 115 MW / 169 MWh battery; no project cost has been published and the solar side is still shown as planned in federal data.

The first TM-B Launch Edition e-bikes reached US riders in the week of 3 August 2026, about six weeks later than the spring ALSO promised at the bike's unveiling. The Rivian spinout's Class 3 debut runs to 100 miles on a charge and swaps its Top Frame from cargo to passenger duty in under three seconds.

The only man ever charged in Tupac Shakur's 1996 drive-by killing went on trial in Las Vegas, where jury selection began nearly 30 years after the shooting and more than two years after the first trial date.

Sable Offshore expects the Hondo platform offshore California to come back online by the end of September 2026, the third Santa Ynez Unit platform restarted after Heritage and Harmony. On its August earnings call management said the 45-year-old platform needed about 50% more work than expected and that it was "hoping" to hit the September timing. Hondo is expected to produce lower-sulfur crude that should bring field-wide sulfur content back to normal levels.

ENGIE is building the 200 MW Anson 2 solar plant in Jones County, northwest of Abilene, Texas, with Meta buying its energy and attributes; originally due late 2025, now listed for 2026, cost not published.

Qualcomm's breach-of-contract and interference case against Arm is set for a jury trial before Judge Maryellen Noreika in Wilmington, seven months later than first scheduled.

Paul Hyon Kim, who shot out cameras and firebombed Teslas at a Las Vegas Tesla Collision center in March 2025, is due to be sentenced by Judge Jennifer Dorsey after pleading guilty to arson and a destructive-device charge that carry at least five years in prison.

LAX’s $3.34BN Automated People Mover - the driverless train meant to finally connect the airport’s terminals to LA’s Metro system - has slipped years past its original target and still has no confirmed opening date.

Vitis Energy is building the 200 MW / 400 MWh Apache Hill Energy Center battery beside the Comanche Peak nuclear plant in Hood County, Texas (ERCOT); a 155M USD credit facility closed in 2025, no total project cost has been published, and online dates have slipped from July to about November 2026.

Jupiter Power's Callisto II battery in Houston, Harris County is filed with Texas regulators as a 300 MW two-hour system and sits in ERCOT's queue at about 406 MW; a 258 million USD construction facility closed in April 2026 jointly with Pamela Heights I, and no project-only cost is published.

Brightline West must raise $400 million of equity by 2 November under its fifth amended deal with bondholders, the same day its $2.5 billion of bonds face a mandatory tender, while it waits on a $6 billion federal loan.

Jonathan Rinderknecht goes before a new jury on a superseding two-count indictment that separates the New Year's Day Lachman Fire from the Palisades Fire, after his first trial ended 10-2 for acquittal.

Consumers Energy's 1960s-built J.H. Campbell coal plant in West Olive, Michigan, was due to retire on 31 May 2025 but the Department of Energy has forced it to keep running under six emergency orders, the latest through 14 November 2026; a federal appeals court vacated the first order on 11 September.

Rockstar's return to Vice City, the most anticipated game release in years, after slipping from an earlier 2026 target. Announced date.

After seven years and nine planetary flybys, the joint ESA/JAXA mission separates into two orbiters to study Mercury. Scheduled date.

The FDA extended its action date for Capricor's Duchenne muscular dystrophy cell therapy deramiocel from 22 August to 22 November 2026 after the company filed new HOPE-3 data and a narrower upper-limb indication.

PAHO's Regional Verification Commission will decide in November 2026 whether the United States and Mexico, each a year into sustained measles transmission, keep their elimination status; Canada and the Americas region already lost theirs in November 2025.

The first stretch of Paris Metro Line 18, the region's first new metro line in thirty years, can start carrying passengers from 30 November 2026, with the opening expected the first week of December. It slipped from 1 October 2026.

Black Mountain Energy Storage pitched an 85 million USD Backbone Creek battery near Max Starcke Dam in Burnet County, Texas; EIA data lists 121 MW and ERCOT 124.1 MW, with operation expected December 2026.

Renewable Properties is building Althea Avenue Solar Phase 2, a 5.02 MWdc (3.9 MWac) array in Fresno County for PG&E's Solar Choice program; phase 1 (6.42 MWdc) is already online and cost is not published.

Oriden Power, a Mitsubishi Power Americas company, is developing the 20 MW Abes Run solar farm on a 92-acre site in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, under a 20-year agreement with the City of Philadelphia; no project cost has been published.

China's biggest aerospace and defence show, the 16th China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition, runs from 7 to 13 December 2026 at the Zhuhai International Airshow Center, its 30th-anniversary edition after a move from November.

The new federal hemp definition, capping finished products at 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container, starts on 11 December 2026 after Congress pushed it back a month from 12 November.

Germany's long-delayed underground through-station replaces the Stuttgart terminus after two decades of construction. Estimated date.

A 30-metre segmented-mirror telescope stalled for a decade by opposition to building on Mauna Kea, with La Palma as the alternate site. Estimated date.

Line 22, built as the Pinggu line, is the first inter-provincial metro line between Beijing and Hebei: 81.82 km and 22 stations from Dongdaqiao in Chaoyang through Tongzhou and Sanhe in Hebei out to Pinggu, using 8-car Type D trains at up to 160 km/h. Empty trial running between Hongmiao and Pinggu began on 25 August 2026; Jintai Xizhao and Dongdaqiao are held back to 2029.

The EU's Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles is expected to vote on extending the Dutch approval of Tesla's FSD (Supervised) to all 27 member states; it needs 15 states with 65% of the EU's population.

Alo Yoga's first Paris store, a 2,120 m² flagship in the former Zara unit at 92 avenue des Champs-Élysées, promised for early 2026 and still unopened.

Ørsted installed the 65th and final turbine at the 704 MW Revolution Wind off Rhode Island on about 18 September 2026 and now expects full commercial operation by the end of 2026, a year later than first planned; the farm has fed power to the New England grid since March.

Chery and its Spanish partner Ebro said they expect to begin producing Chery-brand Omoda and Jaecoo models at the former Nissan plant in Barcelona's Zona Franca at the end of 2026 or early 2027, after repeated delays from a 2024 start.

Sungei Bedok opens as the terminus of Thomson-East Coast Line Stage 5 and of the Downtown Line 3 extension, making it the interchange between the two lines. It sits above the East Coast Integrated Depot, the world's first depot stacking three rail lines and a bus depot on one site, and opens alongside Bedok South and Xilin stations.

The first 8.4 km section of the Phase 4 Golden Line, from Tughlakabad to Sangam Vihar, is targeted to open in December 2026; the rest of the 29.785 km Delhi Aerocity-Tughlakabad corridor, 19 stations with 12 of them underground, follows in phases. By April 2026 civil work was 78 per cent done with five tunnel boring machines still at work, and trainsets had begun arriving at the modified Sarita Vihar depot.

PLDT's ePLDT plans to sell up to 49% of VITRO REIT, eight data centres with about 24 MW, for up to ₱24.2 billion at up to ₱11 a share; the 12 October listing has been pushed back while cornerstone investors are lined up.

WHO South-East Asia's target to eliminate measles and rubella by 2026 reaches its deadline on 31 December, after being moved from 2020 to 2023 to 2026. The Regional Verification Commission warned in June that the target "may not be achieved" as outbreaks rise in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Thailand and Maldives.

BYD's first European car plant in Szeged, Hungary will begin assembling the Dolphin Surf in the fourth quarter of 2026, a year later than the end-2025 start BYD had promised.

Norway's plan to blast the world's first full-scale ship tunnel through the Stad peninsula has cleared its funding hurdles, with construction now set to begin in early 2027.