Authorities say complacent city dwellers need to learn from their regional cousins and have an emergency kit ready for when a natural disaster strikes, including three days' worth of water.

Residents in Biloela call for a Tamil family currently on Christmas Island to be returned to the Queensland community of Biloela where they were living before they lost their asylum bid.

Intergenerational or 'ageless' playgroups are being rolled out across the country as part of a social experiment connecting young children with aged care residents.

STAN GRANT, PRESENTER: Now, when I say the word shanty town, what springs to mind? A slum in India, a refugee camp?

Central coast residents have launched a scathing attack on the NSW Government after recent works let tonnes of silt, clay and rocks wash into Bangalow Creek, renowned for its wildlife.

Another Bupa aged care home is sanctioned over what the Department of Health identified as a "severe risk to the health, safety and wellbeing of care recipients".

Cave-ins, bottomless pits filled with car bodies and cyanide-laced sandhills are just some of the remnants left behind from Parkes' long gold-rush history.

The City of Nettuno worked with IBM Human-Centric Solutions (HCS) to develop an interactive service providing real-time accessibility information via a smartphone application. Called "Accessibility City Tag" (ACT!), the service allows residents or visitors with disabilities to view accessibility information about Nettuno points of interest, filtered by their particular disability type, on their smart phone.

"When we have lots of folks coming up from the Front Range into the mountains, that flies in the face of everything we're trying to accomplish."

"Darn good," one resident shouted from her window.

"If we all do a little bit, no one has to do a lot."

William Brighenti, who founded the Berlin Property Owners Association, argued that the town can’t afford a new police headquarters, and police should look to clear space in their current building. He thinks one way to accomplish this is to get rid of tactical gear. Continue reading →

IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge program (@CitiesChallenge) will be sending teams of company experts to five municipalities through 2018 to provide pro bono consultative advice on issues such as affordable housing, economic development, immigration, and public safety.

With wildfire season already starting in some regions of the United States and around the corner in others, now is the time to start thinking about your physical and financial preparedness.  To help you be better informed, NFPA is hosting two free

Outraged community leaders joined staffers Tuesday outside the Linden Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, where demonstrators complained as many as 10 bodies were stored in an unrefrigerated fourth floor dementia unit where the dead reside among the living — and ailing residents are reportedly free to wander.

The Board of Trustees voted Monday night to approve the three new college chiefs for Queens College, Hostos Community College and The CUNY Graduate Center, officials announced.

L.A. County is offering residents a free subscription to Headspace, a mindfulness and meditation app.

Since FDR, presidents have taken on the role of comforter-in-chief in moments of national crisis.

Wear a mask when inside an essential business, or when riding a bus or train. The cities of Long Beach, Pasadena and L.A. have issued similar orders.

CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White and the presidents of the Northridge and East Bay campuses say they will stay on through fall 2020.

Two fatal shootings of black men by police and the death of a pregnant pedestrian struck by an officer resurface old scars for Indianapolis.

How many people have coronavirus in Carmel? The city soon may soon get a better picture — by testing residents' feces.

Indianapolis residents held a vigil for Dreasjon Reed, who was fatally shot by police. At least part of it was captured on a Facebook Live video.

They know more than anyone how difficult it is to get funding for colleges.

Cochrane RCMP say charges have been laid against two individuals in connection with an investigation that began with a firearms complaint.

The province is investing $1.5 million to support a housing project in Muskoka to help people with no place to call home.

A total of 27 Hong Kong residents who left Morocco on a chartered flight arranged by the Chinese Embassy in the Kingdom of Morocco arrived in Guangzhou today.

Among them, 26 people subsequently took the coaches arranged by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government to return to Hong Kong through the Shenzhen Bay Port and have arrived at AsiaWorld-Expo.

One Hong Kong resident chose to stay in Guangzhou for a 14-day isolation period for medical surveillance in accordance with the relevant requirements.

You can now add Fresno to the growing list of cities that are now requiring people to wear face masks in public places.

Despite being placed under strict restrictions and COVID-19 curfew measures, shoppers, commuters, motorists, and vendors in Montego Bay got a feel of Christmas on Wednesday, when they were showered with items as part of the COVID-19 giveaway by an...

Maybe because there's never been a great Democrat president?  And never will be.  They're all horrible.

In a small region of Vermont, a fierce debate raged over consolidating five tiny school districts into one.

The Nunavut government says there is no set limit on how much money it is prepared to spend on hotels for residents required to isolate before they return home.

A man is in police custody following an incident that briefly put the Burin Peninsula community of Lawn on high alert on Friday morning. 

Staff halted $100 service over pandemic concerns, forcing homeowners to private plumbers much more, and Danny Breen is urging them to contact the city.

Residents are cleaning up damage to hundreds of homes and businesses caused by floods in the northern Alberta hamlet of Fort Vermilion.

Three residents at a long-term care facility in Sault Ste. Marie have tested positive for COVID-19, prompting officials to declare an outbreak at Extendicare Maple View.

The last time Charlene Chiddenton saw her father in person was on March 7 — visitor restrictions at long-term care homes during the pandemic had kept them apart — and less than two months later, she was saying goodbye to her father by video call.

The Flint Registry is holding in-person enrollment across the city of Flint all week. Officials are trying to track the health of residents made ill by the Flint Water Crisis.

Some provinces are moving to allow people to double their so-called COVID-19 social bubbles. Chris Glover looks at why that's not yet happening in Ontario.

Ten properties, including homes and businesses, have already been evacuated as the community braces against rising water levels.

Although all residents progressively assume responsibility for clinical skills under the teaching and supervision of attending physicians, senior residents also assume responsibility for teaching and supervising. This leads to a dynamic negotiation of responsibilities, particularly on clinical work rounds.

A better understanding of how attending physicians and senior residents negotiate shared responsibilities for teaching and supervising, and the context in which this negotiation occurs, may clarify assumptions and set expectations for resident training. (Read the full article)

In 2011, the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education increased restrictions on resident duty-hours. Further changes have been considered, including greater work-hour restrictions and lengthening residency. Residents’ views about these policies are unclear.

This is the first systematic, national inquiry into resident opinions on reduced work-hours and longer residency. More pediatric residents support than oppose reduced hours, and a minority would add a year to residency to achieve them. (Read the full article)

Skills learned in standardized courses are estimated to last only a few months. Neonatal Resuscitation Program certification is mandatory for all pediatric residents and is valid for 2 years. Exact timing of when proficiency is lost is unknown.

Neonatal Resuscitation Program skills deteriorate immediately after certification, whereas knowledge is better retained. Significant skill deficits were seen at baseline raising concerns regarding the efficacy of the current course structure. Discrepancies in knowledge and skill retention may impact caregiver performance. (Read the full article)

Expedited partner therapy (EPT) is an effective method of partner treatment of sexually transmitted infections but is not used frequently. There are limited data on provider knowledge, practices, and comfort with EPT use in adolescents.

California pediatric residents have knowledge gaps and discomfort providing EPT and presence of an adolescent medicine fellowship is associated with increased EPT knowledge, use, and comfort among residents. Our findings support the need to improve EPT education in pediatric residencies. (Read the full article)

Physicians have little knowledge of health care costs and charges. Studies suggest that education and awareness of hospital finances can decrease unnecessary utilization of resources. Little is known about pediatricians’ awareness of the economics of health care delivery in the inpatient setting.

Both general pediatric attending physicians and trainees acknowledged a limited understanding of hospital finances, and they demonstrated a lack of awareness of costs, charges, and reimbursements for inpatient care. (Read the full article)