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  • CDC endorses updated COVID boosters, shots to begin soon

    September 01, 2022 - 5:05 PM

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday endorsed updated COIVD-19 boosters, opening the way for a fall vaccination campaign that could blunt a winter surge if enough Americans roll up their sleeves.

  • FDA authorizes 1st COVID-19 shots for infants, preschoolers

    June 17, 2022 - 2:11 PM

    U.S. regulators on Friday authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week.

  • Boris Johnson scraps remaining COVID restrictions in England

    February 21, 2022 - 12:37 PM

    LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is scrapping the last domestic coronavirus restrictions in England, including the requirement for people with COVID-19 to self-isolate, even as he acknowledged Monday the potential for new and more deadly variants of the virus.

  • ‘Take back life’: More nations ease coronavirus restrictions

    February 02, 2022 - 12:36 PM

    GENEVA - Late-night partying at clubs. Elbow-to-elbow seating in movie theaters. Going without masks in public, especially in Europe and North America: Step by step, many countries are easing their COVID-19 restrictions amid hopes the omicron wave may have passed its peak.

  • Tennessee won't incentivize COVID shots but pays to vax cows

    August 03, 2021 - 10:04 AM

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee has sent nearly half a million dollars to farmers who have vaccinated their cattle against respiratory diseases and other maladies over the past two years.

  • Chicago begins return to classrooms after bitter union fight

    February 10, 2021 - 9:28 PM

    Chicago parents Willie and Brittany Preston have spent nearly a year wrestling with online school schedules for their six children, often with everyone hovered over devices around the dining room table.

  • Biden boosting vaccine allotments, financing for virus costs

    February 02, 2021 - 12:44 PM

    WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden’s administration announced Tuesday that it is moving to expand access to COVID-19 vaccines, freeing up more doses for states and beginning to distribute them to retail pharmacies next week. The push comes amid new urgency to speed vaccinations to prevent the spread of potentially more serious strains of the virus that has killed more than 445,000 Americans.

  • COVID-19 cases, deaths climb despite restrictions; experts warn of 'cures'

    March 26, 2020 - 2:13 PM

    TORONTO - The unrelenting climb in COVID-19 cases in Canada continued Thursday amid tightening restrictions aimed at curbing the pandemic as experts warned against prescribing or using unproven cures for the disease that has killed 39 people and infected close to 4,000 others.

  • New Brunswick government tables surplus budget amid political sabre rattling

    March 10, 2020 - 12:30 PM

    FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's governing Progressive Conservatives tabled a $10.2-billion budget Tuesday that could prove to be their undoing, given their tenuous minority in the legislature.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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