U.S. President Barack Obama says the government will use "every element" of its power to prevent attacks on U.S. soil in the wake of an in-flight bombing attempt on a Northwest Airlines flight.
A wing of al-Qaeda has claimed it was behind the attempt to blow up a Christmas Day transatlantic flight, saying it was in retaliation for U.S. attacks in Yemen.
He made headlines in the Spring and continues to lead the news well into the New Year. The Quinte Broadcasting news team has selected Graham Scott…..the provincially-appointed Supervisor at Quinte Healthcare as its Newsmaker of the Year for 2009. In April, Scott was hired to address governance and financial issues at the hospitals in Belleville, [...] […]
2009 certainly could have been a better year on the local industrial scene in Quinte, but hope springs eternal. Despite losing some manufacturing plants, the C.E.O. of the Quinte Economic Development Commission, Chris King, says they and Loyalist College, are working hard to keep existing industry here. Chris King says there are several [...]
Brighton Mayor Chris Herrington has high hopes for the municipality in 2010. Herrington mentioned just a few of her goals in a year-end interview with our newsroom. Herrington also predicts a rebound in housing starts, to at least one-hundred in 2010, Brighton will recruit one more new doctor, and 75 per cent of the [...]
The Belleville Fire Department is crediting a carbon monoxide alarm with keeping a Kensington Crescent family healthy. The carbon monoxide alarm went off Saturday evening, and the fire department had the Mother and her two young children checked for CO2 levels at Belleville hospital. Only minimal traces were found in their blood. [...]
Soon after the exciting discovery of a method to transform human skin cells into stem cells in 2006 came the frustration of actually trying to make a sufficient amount of these induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells . The process is so inefficient that scientists typically only get 0.01 percent of a sample of human skin, or fibroblast, cells to form iPS cell c […]
Reports of maples on the march northward and butterflies flitting far afield are already flooding in, and climate scientists predict that with escalating temperature changes more species will need to either get out of dodge, or hope for emissions reductions that will help the planet dodge the climate bullet. [More]