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Noteworthy and influential people who've died this year
September 03, 2025 - 11:18 AM

August saw the death of Stella Rimington, the first female head of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency.
Increasing the danger: Journalist killing in Gaza sends a chilling message
August 13, 2025 - 11:28 AM

Israel's targeted killing of an Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza over the weekend was noteworthy even for a conflict remarkably blood-soaked for journalists, leaving some experts to marvel that any news at all emerges from the territory.
Brooklyn’s Black church choirs persist amid attendance decline, gentrification
August 08, 2025 - 5:46 PM

NEW YORK (RNS) — On Sunday mornings in Brooklyn, nicknamed the borough of churches, the muffled sounds of choir singers, hand-claps and Hammond organs can be heard from the sidewalks. The borough still has a church on nearly every block, but over the years, the number of people in the pews has thinned.
Documentaries on sex work, whistlers, aeronauts join Toronto's film festival lineup
August 06, 2025 - 8:26 AM

TORONTO — Sex workers, champion whistlers and hot air balloon adventurers star in the documentaries bound for the Toronto International Film Festival.
Noteworthy and influential people who've died this year
August 04, 2025 - 1:36 PM

July saw the death of heavy metal godfather Ozzy Osbourne, the Black Sabbath lead singer whose influence in the genre spans generations.
Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97
July 27, 2025 - 5:39 PM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died. He was 97.
In 'Youth Group' comic, evangelical kids sing silly songs about Jesus, fight demons
June 10, 2025 - 7:20 PM

(RNS) — When he was a teenager in the 1990s, Jordan Morris was always up for a bit of mischief — as long as it didn’t involve sex or drugs, two things he was sure would kill him.
Inside a historic church painted with murals that reflect searing social commentary
June 05, 2025 - 4:16 AM

MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) — When the scaffolding came down inside the unassuming hilltop church near Pittsburgh, it revealed a raging storm of biblical proportions.
What it takes to clean industrial soot and grime from a Pittsburgh church's murals
June 05, 2025 - 4:09 AM

MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) — How do you conserve 80-year-old murals that have accumulated decades' worth of soot, salt and other deterioration?
British writer Bernardine Evaristo receives accolade for breaking literary boundaries
June 04, 2025 - 1:01 AM

LONDON (AP) — Bernardine Evaristo doesn't like boundaries.
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JONESIE: Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas just can't help himself
OPINION People are going to start to think I don’t like Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas, since I really haven't had anything good to say about him. That’s not really true. I will say this: He’s been Kelowna’s b

New $1.2M renovation lets beverage makers experiment in Penticton
Drink makers are going to be able to head to the newly renovated lab at Okanagan College's Penticton campus to work on innovative beverages. Okanagan College has spent $1.2 million to renovate its Beverage Technology Access Centre with

Penticton 'potio' weed lounge going strong despite stifling regulations
A cozy, clean patio with picnic tables where Penticton’s potheads can gather outside a dispensary to get stoned is a surprisingly rare space. As of February 2024 cannabis shops in BC could have outdoor lounges for people to smoke, but

BC tenant's misconduct nets him $57,000, until landlord finds out
A BC tenant has been ordered to pay $3,500 to his landlord after he hoodwinked the Residential Tenancy Branch about why he'd been evicted, which led to the landlord being ordered to pay the tenant $57,000. According to a Sept. 11 BC Sup

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Noteworthy and influential people who've died this year

Increasing the danger: Journalist killing in Gaza sends a chilling message

Brooklyn’s Black church choirs persist amid attendance decline, gentrification

Documentaries on sex work, whistlers, aeronauts join Toronto's film festival lineup

Noteworthy and influential people who've died this year

Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97

In 'Youth Group' comic, evangelical kids sing silly songs about Jesus, fight demons

Inside a historic church painted with murals that reflect searing social commentary

What it takes to clean industrial soot and grime from a Pittsburgh church's murals

British writer Bernardine Evaristo receives accolade for breaking literary boundaries

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