B.C. postpones some surgeries due to shortages caused by unvaccinated workers: Dix
VICTORIA — British Columbia hospitals are postponing some surgeries due to staffing shortages created by unvaccinated health-care workers who have been put on unpaid leave, says Health Minister Adrian Dix. Dix said Monday that 3,325 health-care work...
Judge temporarily halts road project near Montreal due to endangered frog
MONTREAL — A Quebec environmental group attempting to block a road construction project south of Montreal that it says would damage the habitat of an endangered frog said it’s pleased with a recent court order. Geneviève Paul, executive director of the...
New York votes: Top contests in Tuesday’s election
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — It may lack the drama and high-stakes of last year's presidential election, but New Yorkers are still making important decisions Tuesday in elections to pick mayors, prosecutors, county leaders and other local positions.
Images of vulnerable Afghans removed from Pentagon website
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon on Monday said it has temporarily removed from its visual information website tens of thousands of photo and video images of Afghans who supported the U.S. war effort and were deemed vulnerable to Taliban retaliation.
High court: NY abortion case ruling should be revisited
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is telling a lower court to take another look at a case in which the lower court upheld a New York regulation requiring health insurance plans to cover abortions. The regulation exempts certain religious
Hydro-Québec project facing ‘green’ opposition in Maine ahead of Tuesday’s referendum
AUGUSTA, Maine — A plan to export hydroelectricity from Quebec to Massachusetts is facing opposition from environmental groups in Maine — where a 233-kilometre transmission line would be built — despite the promise of major greenhouse gas reductions. M...
EXPLAINER: Why Saudi Arabia is upset, lashing out at Lebanon
BEIRUT (AP) — A televised remark by a game show host turned Cabinet minister in Lebanon about the war in Yemen has taken the country’s crisis with Saudi Arabia to new depths.
Judge limits new California law protecting vaccination sites
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out California's new 30-foot buffer zone designed to restrict protests at coronavirus vaccination sites, though his ruling left in place other parts of a new state law despite arguments that it
Treasury says plans to borrow $1.02 trillion this quarter
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department said Monday it plans to borrow $1.02 trillion during the current quarter, the largest amount since the government began passing trillion-dollar rescue packages for the economy in the spring of 2020.
South Dakota ethics board wants more information on Noem
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota's Government Accountability Board called Monday for more information in at least one ethics complaint against Gov. Kristi Noem as it weighed multiple requests from the attorney general to consider whether the gover...