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In just under two weeks, Peachland, B.C., residents will be able to vote on whether they want to borrow up to $17.5 million for a new protective services building and pay the tax increase. The current fire hall is over 60 years old, and the Peachland fire chief, Dennis Craig, says the department has outgrown the building.Crews have to maneuver through tight spaces while gearing up for calls. The garage has little to no room for crew members to walk around the trucks or open engine doors all the way.During the day, the fire chief and deputy chief as well…

Chair of Royal Australia College of General Practitioners, NSW and ACT branch, Dr Charlotte Hespe says there is an “immediate need” to boost patient rebates and have an “incentive to do bulk billing”. General practice leaders are calling for an immediate boost to bulk-billing incentives and patient rebate, following a crisis summit to revitalise the sector. Source: Sky News

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Moving forward! Tia Mowry was spotted out and about without her wedding ring — just one day after she filed for divorce from husband Cory Hardrict.  Mowry, 44, kept it casual but cute as she ran errands on Wednesday, October 5, sporting lavender leggings with a matching pullover. The Sister, Sister alum accessorized the look with a pair of black sunnies and gold earrings. The gold band, however, was missing from her left ring finger.  The Game alum announced on Tuesday, October 5, that she and the All American: Homecoming Star, 42, had called it quits after 14 years of…

DEA agents seized more than 3,500 pounds of methamphetamine and 145 pounds of cocaine from a stash house in Norco, California, this week. The drug bust marks the largest seizure of meth by the DEA’s Los Angeles field division in history.  “Synthetic drugs like methamphetamine are highly addictive, dangerous and killing people at alarming rates,” DEA Los Angeles Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner said in a statement. NY DEA LARGEST ‘RAINBOW FENTANYL’ BUST TO DATE UNCOVERS CANDY-COLORED PILLS IN LEGO CHILDREN’S TOY BOXInvestigators had been monitoring a stash house that they believe is linked to the Sinaloa Cartel, which uses the…

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Hurricane Ian made landfall in south Florida last week as a category 4 hurricane — causing many people to lose their home and belongings. A group of nuns experienced this devastation firsthand. Fr. Adams, Sister Mary Frances and three other nuns joined “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday morning, Oct. 5, 2022, to discuss the damage that their monastery endured — and how one family helped them during a time of need. HURRICANE IAN: FOX NEWS’ STEVE HARRIGAN CARRIES SURVIVOR TO SAFETY WHILE REPORTING FROM FLORIDAFather Adams, pastor of Church of the Ascension in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, said they knew they were in…

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A federal appeals court determined that the Obama administration didn’t have the authority to institute the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program but declined to dismantle it, allowing more than 600,000 immigrants to continue to enjoy its protections.The 5th U.S. Circuit ordered a review of new changes by the Biden administration to DACA, telling a Texas federal judge to review the program.A three judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled that while the Obama administration lacked the authority to create the immigration policy which affects over 600,000 people, it didn’t dismantle the program, and people…

Three scientists were jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing a way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to explore cells, map DNA and design drugs that can target diseases such as cancer more precisely.Americans Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless, and Danish scientist Morten Meldal were cited for their work on click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions.”It’s all about snapping molecules together,” said Johan Aqvist, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that announced the winners at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.Sharpless, 81, who previously won a Nobel Prize in…