Health

ATCHAFALAYA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, La.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas bill banning transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports was vetoed by Democratic Gov.

HARRISON MILLS, BRITISH COLUMBIA — A community in British Columbia's Lower Fraser Valley is one step closer to having its own Indigenous-led health centre.

SAN JOSE, Calif.

Irvo Otieno had realized his passion: making hip-hop. He could write a song in less than five minutes. And he was streaming his music under the moniker “Young Vo,” while working toward starting his own record label.

A lawmaker who has been holding up the work of the Nebraska Legislature for weeks to protest a bill that would ban gender-affirming therapies for minors has paused her persistent filibuster in a deal that will see lawmakers debate the bill next week.

TORONTO — Ontario's long-term care minister says the province is giving $1.25 billion in the next fiscal year to homes for hiring and staff retention.

EDMONTON — The federal government has announced more than $80 million over five years toward the Canadian Critical Drug Initiative in Edmonton.

POND INLET, Nunavut — The Nunavut Department of Health has declared a tuberculosis outbreak in Pond Inlet. The territory's chief public health officer says there are currently five active cases and 22 latent cases of TB in the hamlet.

Hexo Corp.'s chief executive says he's seen a "price war" take shape over the last five months that could cause "significant" damage to Canada's cannabis industry. "No one wins in a price war," Charlie Bowman told analysts on a Friday call.