HIV warning to older women as infections increase
The Blue Sky Trust charity reacts to a rise in HIV infections among heterosexual women.
Flu jabs offered in pub in vaccination drive
Regular pop-up vaccination clinics are available at The Bevy community pub in Brighton.
Flu jabs offered in pub in vaccination drive
Regular pop-up vaccination clinics are available at The Bevy community pub in Brighton.
The Florida Legislature is not your friend
Ever get the feeling the Florida Legislature hates you? It does. Unless you’re a developer, a lobbyist, or a fetus. Members are filing hell-born bills for the 2026 session, many apparently designed to torment you, rob your children of their futures, and reduce this state to an ICE-filled, disease ridden, constantly flooding, unaffordable autocracy. Perhaps […]
Massive fire damages popular banquet hall in Lower Saucon Township
A large fire broke out Saturday evening at The Moon of Saucon Valley, formerly known as The Meadows, a popular banquet and event facility in Lower Saucon Township, just outside Hellertown.
A citizen reporter strayed onto a police gun range. Cops sought a warrant for his online newspaper.
The trouble started one wet Friday morning in late October when Jarom Smith walked past a weathered red gate in a brushy area near the southwest corner of the Emporia city limits. Smith, a citizen journalist, wanted a couple of photos of the old police shooting range inside to post for his readers. “I simply […]
Budget 2025: What's the best and worst that could happen for Labour?
Three days in, after a tax U-turn and partial climbdown on workers' rights, Laura Kuenssberg looks at what impact Budget week might have.
As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste
The U.S. government has caused massive food waste during President Donald Trump’s second term. Policies such as immigration raids, tariff changes and temporary and permanent cuts to food assistance programs have left farmers short of workers and money, food rotting in fields and warehouses, and millions of Americans hungry. And that doesn’t even include the administration’s actual destruction of […]
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Adrienne Murray meets the engineers designing icebreaker ship technology for the Arctic.
Robotics, AI the answer to dwindling labor population, UF researcher says
Artificial intelligence and robots have potential to boost agricultural production — and their possibilities are only beginning, a University of Florida researcher told the Florida Senate last week. UF broke ground this month on the Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture at the Gulf Coast Research and Education Center in Hillsborough County. According to […]
Israel releases Florida teen after more than nine months in prison over allegations of rock throwing
A 16-year-old Palestinian American youth from Brevard County was released from an Israeli prison Thursday after being held since February on allegations of rock throwing in the West Bank. The U.S. State Department confirmed the release of Mohammed Ibrahim in a statement sent to the Phoenix on Friday. “The Department of State welcomes the news […]
‘Confused and frustrated’: Kansas social work advocate loses job in national group’s restructure
TOPEKA — A national organization supporting social workers restructured, stripping Kansas of its local executive director and leaving a long-time system advocate without a job. Becky Fast, who has led the Kansas chapter of the National Association of Social Workers since 2017, was let go from her position when NASW announced internally two weeks ago […]