Tag Archives: Health

Lower-income families with school-age kids can get help from the federal government paying for groceries this summer, unless they live in one of the 14 states that have said no to joining the program ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) - Evelyn Jefferson walks deep into a forest dotted with the tents of unhoused Lummi Nation tribal members and calls out names. When someone appears, she and a nurse hand out the...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The ACLU of Virginia filed two lawsuits against the state Department of Education on Thursday, asking the courts to throw out Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin's policies on the trea...

SASKATOON - Saskatchewan's largest nurses union says overcrowding has reached dangerous levels in one of the province's major hospitals. Saskatchewan Union of Nurses president Tracy Zambory says the R...

The Saskatchewan Health Authority says it has added more than 100 community and hospital beds to Saskatoon and Regina through its Capacity Pressure Action Plan. The plans for Saskatoon and Regina were...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Another attempt to enshrine abortion rights in the New Hampshire Constitution failed Thursday, this time in the Senate. State law prohibits abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy ex...

CALGARY - Thirty-six law professors, legal researchers and other staff from Alberta's two largest universities are asking the province to reconsider policy changes affecting transgender youth. The ope...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A Republican proposal to legalize medical marijuana in Wisconsin is dead. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Thursday that there will still be a public hearing to build support for p...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba and Ottawa announced a deal Thursday to infuse $633 million into the province's health system, much of which they say will go toward hiring more front-line workers and improving ca...

Vancouver Coastal Health says it is no longer considering a stand-alone supervised consumption in Richmond, British Columbia. The decision was announced late Wednesday in a statement from VCH, which s...