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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

Chender proposes measures at convention to help with housing crisis in Nova Scotia

Updated 16 hours ago |3 min read

Man, 18, dead after crash in Upper Stewiacke

Updated 18 hours ago |1 min read

15-year-old youth dead, two injured after two ATVs crash in Beresford, N.B.

Updated 19 hours ago |2 min read

A drone view shows a flooded city center after people were evacuated in Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, May 4, 2024.

Death toll from rains in southern Brazil climbs to 66, over 100 still missing

Reuters |Updated 2 minutes ago |1 min read

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The death toll from heavy rains that have inundated Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to at least 66, local authorities said on Sunday. The number of people still missing rose to 101 and more than 80,000 ...

A Ukrainian serviceman attends an Orthodox Easter service in the town of Kostiantynivka, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near a front line in Donetsk region, Ukraine May 5, 2024.

Ukrainians in embattled east mark third Easter under fire

Dan Peleschuk |Updated 2 minutes ago |2 min read

By Dan Peleschuk KOSTIANTYNIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainians in the embattled east flocked to church on Sunday to mark their third wartime Easter as Russian troops inched closer to threatening some of the region's key cities. Fighting on the ...

Mourners as seen at the Central Methodist Mission, at the memorial service in honour of the Marshalltown fire victims, in Johannesburg, South Africa September 8, 2023.

South Africa inquiry blames authorities for neglect leading to deadly fire

Tim Cocks |Updated 32 minutes ago |2 min read

By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An inquiry into a fire that killed 77 people in Johannesburg last year blamed neglect by authorities for allowing a building to become a den for guns, murder, drugs and combustible trash, and failing to ...

Hamas claims responsibility for attack on Israel-Gaza border crossing, casualties reported

Reuters |Updated 52 minutes ago |1 min read

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza that local media reports said resulted in Israeli casuatlies. The Israel military ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Jerusalem, February 18, 2024.

Netanyahu says ending Gaza war now would keep Hamas in power

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hardened his rejection of Hamas demands for an end to the Gaza war in exchange for the freeing of hostages, saying on Sunday that would keep the Palestinian Islamist group in power and pose ...

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski speaks during a press conference with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, as part of celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of Poland's accession to the European Union, in Slubice, Poland, May 1, 2024.

Poland wants best ties with US no matter who's in power, minister says

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |1 min read

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland wants "the best possible relations with America, regardless of who is in power," Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said during a visit to Washington, according to a report by Poland's PAP newswire on Sunday."We will not ...

Four Lebanese civilians killed in Israeli strike on border village

Reuters |Updated 1 minutes ago |1 min read

AMMAN (Reuters) -An Israeli airstrike killed four members of a family in a house in a border village in southern Lebanon on Sunday, civil defence and security sources said. The four were killed in Meiss al Jabal, which has suffered extensive damage ...

A general view shows the Al-Jazeera headquarter building in Doha, Qatar, May 11, 2022.

Israeli cabinet moves to close Al Jazeera's local operations

Reuters |Updated 1 minutes ago |1 min read

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet voted unanimously on Sunday to close Qatari television network Al Jazeera's operations in Israel, according to a government statement, which did not stipulate when the decision ...

View of a swollen river near a safari lodge following heavy rainfall in the Talek region, of the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Narok County, Kenya May 1, 2024.

Death toll from Kenya floods rises to 228

Reuters |Updated 2 hours ago |1 min read

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The number of people killed by flooding and other impacts of the heavy rains battering Kenya has risen to 228, the interior ministry said on Sunday. The torrential rains that have caused widespread flooding and landslides ...

A police officer guards an entrance to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., February 9, 2024.

Ex-US Capitol cop, Jan. 6 rioter's runs for Congress illustrate a divided America

Richard Cowan |Updated 2 hours ago |4 min read

By Richard Cowan ELLICOTT CITY, Maryland (Reuters) - A former U.S. Capitol police officer who defended lawmakers during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and a man who served time in prison for joining the mob, could both be headed to Congress next year ...