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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

New grant to help affordable housing projects 'get off the ground'

Updated 20 minutes ago |3 min read

'Very busy' year so far for building permits, Saint John says

Updated 30 minutes ago |3 min read

More security needed in Charlottetown parks, councillors say, as city hires summer guards

Updated 35 minutes ago |6 min read

A view of German, French, Japanese, European Union, Italian, Capri and US flags blowing in the wind, ahead of the G7 Foreign Ministers summit, in Capri, Italy, April 17, 2024.

Explainer-How the West might use Russia's frozen reserves to help Ukraine

Reuters |Updated 5 minutes ago |5 min read

LONDON (Reuters) - The G7 group of nations are looking to use nearly $300 billion worth of Russian financial assets frozen by sanctions since 2022 to help support Ukraine, but how it will be done remains highly complex given it would set a ...

A sign marks the offices of Thermo Fisher Scientific offices in Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S., August 2, 2023.

Thermo Fisher lifts profit forecast as medical equipment demand improves

Reuters |Updated 17 minutes ago |2 min read

(Reuters) - Thermo Fisher on Wednesday beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit and raised its annual profit forecast, betting on improved demand for its products and services used in drug development and sending shares up about 4% ...

Members of the EU Parliament vote during a plenary session at the European Parliament in Starsbourg, France June 13, 2023.

Explainer-Why you should care about the European Parliament election

Reuters |Updated 44 minutes ago |2 min read

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union citizens will vote on June 6-9 in elections to choose 720 new members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for the next five years. WHY IT IS IMPORTANT The European Parliament is one of the three main EU ...

Biogen beats quarterly profit estimates, Alzheimer's drug sales jump

Reuters |Updated 5 minutes ago |2 min read

(Reuters) - Biogen beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Wednesday, helped by a series of cost-cutting measures as older drugs face fierce competition. The company also said its Alzheimer's drug Leqembi, developed with Japanese ...

Signage for Humana Inc. is pictured at a health facility in Queens, New York City, U.S., November 30, 2021.

Humana beats first-quarter profit estimates on strength of Medicare business

Reuters |Updated 5 minutes ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - Humana beat first-quarter profit expectations on Wednesday, helped by strength in its government-backed Medicare Advantage insurance business for older adults. On an adjusted basis, Humana reported a profit of $7.23 per share, ...

Jeffrey Donaldson, former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) charged with historical sex offences, arrives at the Newry Magistrates Court, in Newry, Northern Ireland, April 24, 2024.

Northern Ireland's Donaldson charged with rape, other sexual offences

Reuters |Updated 4 minutes ago |1 min read

NEWRY, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - The former leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Jeffrey Donaldson faces 11 historical sex offence charges, including one count of rape, prosecutors told a Northern Irish court on ...

FIEL PHOTO: A Palestinian woman bakes bread as children sit next to her, while Gaza residents face crisis levels of hunger and soaring malnutrition, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip January 24, 2024.

Gaza could surpass famine thresholds in six weeks, WFP official says

Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber |Updated 55 minutes ago |2 min read

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) - The Gaza Strip could surpass famine thresholds of food insecurity, malnutrition and mortality in six weeks, an official from the World Food Programme said on Wednesday. "We are getting closer by the ...

Boston Scientific raises annual profit forecast on strong demand for heart devices

Reuters |Updated 5 minutes ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - Medical device maker Boston Scientific raised its annual profit forecast on Wednesday as the company banks on resilient demand for its heart devices, with post-pandemic elective surgical procedures picking up pace. The company now ...

This four-level apartment building with six units per floor is proposed for 113 Blackmarsh Road. Courtesy of the City of St. John's

St. John's council moves forward on applications for apartment building on Blackmarsh Road, new cul-de-sac on Bay Bulls Road

Evan Careen · Multimedia journalist |Updated 56 minutes ago |3 min read

Housing, or the lack thereof for many, has been a hot topic across the country for some time now, and was the subject of multiple items in the city of St. John’s Committee of the Whole meeting on April 23. Council voted on two housing-related ...

King of Jordan Abdullah II speaks while making a joint statement with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, 16 February 2024. YOAN VALAT/Pool via

Jordan's king issues decree to hold parliamentary election, state TV says

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |1 min read

AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's King Abdullah issued a royal decree on Wednesday announcing that a parliamentary election will be held, state TV said. Under the constitution, the multi-party election is usually held within four months of the end of a ...