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150 residents displaced after fire hits apartment building in New Westminster, B.C.
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NEW WESTMINSTER — Around 150 residents are without homes after a fire gutted an apartment…
Guggenheim Museum among NYC buildings that tested positive for Legionnaires’ amid disease outbreak
New York City’s famed Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was among a number of Manhattan buildings…
Why losing weight isn’t just about counting calories – and what to do about it
BOSTON (AP) — When it comes to losing weight, it turns out the simple math…
US citizen tests positive for Ebola in Congo
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A U.S. citizen working for a humanitarian organization in Congo has…
Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on…
Veteran mediator Vince Ready to step in to try to end B.C. nurses’ dispute
PRINCE GEORGE — Two mediators have been appointed to help settle the British Columbia nurses’…
B.C. to create another 132 involuntary care beds for severe mental health disorders
PRINCE GEORGE — British Columbia government is adding 132 more involuntary care beds for those…
How to stay safe and still enjoy produce this summer with the outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite
Scores of people in the United States have been sickened by a parasite commonly linked…
EPA promised a Make America Healthy Again agenda. It has yet to materialize, frustrating activists
WASHINGTON (AP) — Last December, after Make America Healthy Again activists drew up a petition…
Tofu vendor delivers much more than healthy food to an east Tokyo neighborhood
TOKYO (AP) — Akiko Sugaya wheels a cart through the alley-like streets of eastern Tokyo…
Diarrhea-causing parasite infecting more than 1,200 in Michigan has not spread to Canada: PHAC
TORONTO — The outbreak of a parasite that causes weeks of watery diarrhea and has…
Talks between B.C. nurses and employer at impasse, union wants the province to help
SURREY — The BC Nurses’ Union said Thursday that negotiations with the employer have broken…
Sturgis closure may be ‘first of more’ for Michigan rural hospitals
Beth Kelley spent most of her life working at Sturgis Hospital. For 32 years, the…
Suspected Ebola patient placed in Equatorial Guinea hotel with deportees from the US, lawyers say
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Migrants deported from the U.S. and detained in a hotel in…
Ebola death toll in Congo reaches 600, as new cases suspected in previously unaffected provinces
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — New suspected cases of Ebola have been reported in parts of…
An Italian region defies US pressure to end a Cuban doctors program
POLISTENA, Italy (AP) — Italy’s southern Calabria region is the rare place in Europe where…
What to know about protecting pets from the New World screwworm fly
Two New World screwworm cases in dogs are among more than 30 confirmed instances in…
Honolulu Homeless Services Program Too Disorganized To Assess, Auditor Says
An audit of a Honolulu homeless assistance initiative that came under fire for being ineffective…
Michael J. Fox among Canadian Emmy nominees after six-year acting break
Michael J. Fox has landed an Emmy nomination six years after stepping away from acting.…
Some health workers in Congo’s Ebola outbreak go on strike over pay issues as deaths near 600
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The healthcare workers at the epicenter of Congo’s Ebola outbreak are…
Parents of Bucknell football player who died say they appreciate criminal charges against coach
The parents of a Bucknell University football player who died after collapsing during the first…
B.C. nurses expand pickets and file labour board complaint, citing intimidation
VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s nurses union says it has received more than 1,400 reports of…
Former Dallas Cowboys defensive end Kneeland had early stage CTE at time of death
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland, who died by suicide…
State lawmakers to explore banning foreign nationals from using Texas surrogates
State lawmakers are exploring prohibiting foreign nationals from using Texas surrogates, elevating a niche fertility…