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LACOMBE, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - May 20, 2009) - Mr. Blaine Calkins, Member of Parliament for Wetaskiwin, today announced federal support for the Lacombe and District Family and Community Support Servi...

The Oregon Economic and Community Development Department has awarded $27.8 million in federal stimulus cash to 18 Oregon community water systems that will help improve drinking water throughout the state.

A recent study funded by the Connecticut Legislature based on surveys of 6,268 Connecticut residents and 500 long-term care providers, found that community-based services such as home care were inadeq...

American Electric Power Co. Inc. and Duke Energy Corp. joined other businesses and environmental groups today in announcing their unified support for provisions for protecting tropical forest in cap-and-trade legislation.The coalition reached an agreement [pdf] with two major facets. The groups support using 5 percent of valuable greenhouse gas emission allowances under the bill's cap-and-trade system to prevent tropical deforestation and reduce international forest emissions. They also want companies to receive credits for tropical forest protection activities. [More]

A coalition of Latino organizations said Tuesday that teen pregnancies in their community wouldn't drop without more help from parents.

Wilma Stephenson's culinary arts course at Philadelphia's Frankford High School is not your mother's home-economics class. Stephenson and her students are the subject of the new documentary Pressure Cooker. The teacher explains her high demands in the classroom. Stephenson is joined by one of her former students, Fatoumata Dembele.

New research suggests that exempting bars from community smoking bans makes no economic difference in terms of preserving bar employment, and that even the most comprehensive clean indoor air policies do not lead to a reduction in hospitality jobs.

The former NFL quarterback joins a long list of disgraced celebrities and sports stars who faced an uphill struggle to rebuild their public images. The road back is a multistep process, experts say.

Yangon - Diplomats and a handful of journalists were permitted Wednesday to attend the third day of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's trial, providing a rare opportunity for her to meet with the international community. I have been seeking p...

Scotland moves step closer to target of generating 50% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020Europe's largest onshore wind farm, which is already powerful enough to meet Glasgow's electricity needs, is to expand by more than a third as part of a major green energy initiative by Scottish ministers.The first minister Alex Salmond announced that the 322MW Whitelee wind farm south of Glasgow had been given permission to increase its capacity to 452MW, as he officially switched on the wind farm this morning.The disclosure came as plans for an even larger scheme, to build a vast community-owned 150 turbine, 540MW scheme on Shetland, were lodged with the Scottish government.Both projects would significantly boost Salmond's plans for half of all Scotland's electricity to come from green sources by 2020. The interim target - to generate 31% of electricity from renewable sources by 2011 - has already been surpassed, officials said.Salmond said Scotland had the theoretical potential to