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Registered occupational therapist Chelsea Surette (left) and registered physiotherapist Maria Wamback are co-owners of the newly opened Acadian Shores Health Centre. TINA COMEAU

'Community helped make this happen': Acadian Shores Health Centre looking to give back through its services

A new health centre in Yarmouth is feeling its community roots. Not only does it feel like it was helped along by the community in starting up and offering the services it does, but it also hopes to become involved in the community. “We are very ...

Updated Mar. 26, 2024 |6 min read

Tories pushing Antigonish consolidation through with amendments

Updated Mar. 25, 2024 |2 min read

Housing Minister John Lohr announces a five-year housing plan at One Government Place in Halifax on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. - Francis Campbell

Two people charged with drug and weapons offences in Stellarton, N.S.

Updated Mar. 25, 2024 |2 min read

RCMP have laid a third charge in connection to the homicide of Natacha Leroy. CONTRIBUTED

Fires in Kings County, P.E.I., believe caused by cigarette butts

Updated 6 minutes ago |3 min read

Lobster setting day in Northumberland Strait pushed to April 27

Updated 19 minutes ago |1 min read

Hearing from the electorate: Annapolis Royal, N.S., hosting meeting to discuss big projects

Updated 1 hour ago |4 min read

Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry takes part in the Canada-CARICOM Summit in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada October 18, 2023.

Haiti PM Henry steps down as transitional government takes power

Reuters |Updated 9 minutes ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned, his office said on Thursday, as a transitional council prepares to lead the country aiming to bring back tranquility amid the havoc caused by widespread gang violence. Henry's finance ...

Residents carry a bed they salvaged from flood waters after Athi River burst its banks and marooned their homes following heavy rainfall in Kwa Mang'eli settlement of Machakos county near Nairobi, Kenya April 24, 2024.

Kenyan military deployed as East Africa floods kill dozens

Reuters |Updated 29 minutes ago |2 min read

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's military was deployed on Thursday to rescue victims of heavy rains that have killed dozens of people across East Africa over the past month. At least 45 people have died in the floods in Kenya since March, including 10 ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting of the Supreme State Council of Russia-Belarus Union State in Saint Petersburg, Russia, January 29, 2024. Sputnik/Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Pool via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY./File Photo

Lukashenko talks up threats to Belarus to justify 'nuclear deterrence'

Mark Trevelyan |Updated 39 minutes ago |3 min read

By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) - Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday his country was facing grave threats internally and externally that had required it to change its security posture and allow Russia to deploy dozens of tactical ...

Town hall in Annapolis Royal is located St. George Street.

Annapolis Royal, N.S., mayor knows some tough decisions are coming with NSP grant in jeopardy

Jason Malloy · Lead editor Annapolis Valley Register |Updated 43 minutes ago |4 min read

Annapolis Royal councillors were able to pass the budget without raising the tax rate for the 2024-25 fiscal year but some big decisions loom. Council passed its $2.8-million operating budget April 17. It sees the tax rates remain at $1.70 ...

Italian President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa and Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanche attend political festival Atreju organised by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia) right-wing party, in Rome, Italy, December 16, 2023.

Italy's state TV journalists to strike over Meloni government's grip

Reuters |Updated 49 minutes ago |2 min read

MILAN (Reuters) - Journalists at Italian state broadcaster RAI will strike next month in protest against the "suffocating control" over their work by Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government, the reporters' trade union Usigrai said on Thursday. The ...

A view shows GlaxoSmithKline headquarters in London, Britain, January 17, 2022.REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo

GlaxoSmithKline sues Pfizer and BioNTech over Covid-19 vaccine technology

Blake Brittain |Updated just now |1 min read

By Blake Brittain (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline sued Pfizer and BioNTech in Delaware federal court on Thursday, accusing them of infringing GSK patents related to messenger RNA (mRNA) technology in the companies' blockbuster COVID-19 vaccines. GSK ...

Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, California, USA, 04 October 2022. Harvey Weinstein was extradited from New York to Los Angeles to face sex-related charges. Etienne Laurent/Pool via

Harvey Weinstein's conviction overturned by top New York court

Reuters |Updated just now |2 min read

By Johan Ahlander NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York's highest court on Thursday overturned the 2020 sex crimes conviction of former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, in the case that helped to create the #MeToo movement. In a 4-3 decision, the state ...

Crews from Bird Construction were onsite in late March to begin work on the Hampton Multipurpose Centre, the town said.
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'Surreal' to see construction on rec centre underway: Hampton, N.B., mayor

Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Andrew Bates Telegraph-Journal |Updated 1 hour ago |3 min read

Hampton Mayor Bob Doucet said it's "surreal" to see construction work underway on the town's new multipurpose facility. Doucet said crews from Bird Construction got going at William Bell Drive "quite a bit earlier" than they'd thought, setting up ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow, Russia April 25, 2024.

Russia says it may downgrade ties with US if its assets are confiscated

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |1 min read

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is considering downgrading the level of its diplomatic relations with the United States if Western governments go ahead with proposals to confiscate its frozen assets, state news agency RIA quoted Deputy Foreign Minister ...

A person prays in front of photos of hostages posted on campus near an encampment where students are protesting in support of Palestinians at Columbia University, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, New York, U.S., April 24, 2024.REUTERS/David 'Dee' Delgado/File Photo

US, 17 other countries urge Hamas to release hostages, end Gaza crisis

Reuters |Updated just now |3 min read

By Steve Holland and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and 17 other countries on Thursday issued an appeal for Hamas to release all of its hostages as a pathway to end the crisis in Gaza. "We call for the immediate release of ...