Navigation for News Categories Some rural communities fear the phasing out of cheques this year is coming too fast, too soon. BNZ, ANZ and Westpac are curtailing the use of cheques in a few months. Photo: 123RF They say reliable internet must come first before they rip up their chequebooks. Sharron-Davie Martin, who lives on…Continue Reading
Corn on the cube by Kate Gray 4 hours ago Mining in Minecraft is so 2020. We’re all about farming, now. Put aside your pickaxe and pick up your shovel; it’s time to get agricultural up in here. As part of Mojang’s lovely Community Celebration, they’ve been showcasing the very best that Minecraft players have…Continue Reading
Home News Small rural hospitals across the country are struggling to find enough space, staff and supplies. (Image: © Visoot Uthairam via Getty Images) It’s difficult to put into words how hard COVID-19 is hitting rural America’s hospitals. North Dakota has so many cases, it’s allowing asymptomatic COVID-19-positive nurses to continue caring for patients to keep the…Continue Reading
MUNCHIQUE, Colombia—The gunmen burst in without warning, tossing grenades and letting loose a burst of fire and that killed six young men in an abandoned house that served as a cockfighting ring.Days after the late September attack, townspeople in this remote hamlet stricken by rising violence marched along a rutted road past the house where…Continue Reading
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Bauchi, October 19, 2020- “Even though I knew my body needed rest from childbirth, I didn’t have any information on how to space my children and stop childbirth when I really wanted to. After my seventeenth delivery the new Community Health Workers posted to our primary healthcare center helped me to make an informed decision…Continue Reading
Jerome Antone said he is one of the lucky ones. After becoming ill with COVID-19, Antone was hospitalized only 65 miles away from his small Alabama town. He is the mayor of Georgiana — population 1,700. “It hit our rural community so rabid,” Antone said. The town’s hospital closed last year. If hospitals in nearby…Continue Reading
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. MEDFORD, Ore. — From the outside, it appears to be just another suburban allergy clinic, a tidy, tan brick-and-cinder-block building set back from a busy highway and across the road from an auto parts store. But inside the offices of the…Continue Reading
