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THE LAKE IS OPEN! SPRING IS HERE! Its always exciting news when the Anchor Bay ice disappears and open water can be seen. The writer has heard that crocuses are up, which means that tulips wont be far behind. Its been cold the past few days, but now that the ice has left and the blue wate… More Headlines

Show more In 1978, over 900 US citizens died at Jonestown, a remote settlement in Guyana. The vast majority were members of a community run by the charismatic Rev Jim Jones, taking their own lives with poison under armed guard on his orders. But how did a church known for racial integration and practical help for the poor come to such a destructive end? How could one man’s increasing paranoia have driven so many people, who had built a mission community from nothing in four ye...

Staff at Northlands port labelled absolute heroes by their boss Staff at Northlands port are being labelled absolute heroes by their boss, after working long hours to unload shipping containers that had to be diverted from Auckland 13 December 2020 Major congestion at Ports of Auckland saw twelve hundred shipping containers arrive further north. But operations were brought to a stop at Northport yesterday, with forklift drivers reaching their maximum number of working hours. Chief Executive...

FDA Grants PMTA Approval to Next-Generation IQOS Device RICHMOND, Va. — Altria Group Inc. received the green light to market IQOS 3 in the United States. On Dec. 7, the company announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized commercialization of the next generation of the IQOS tobacco heating system device. FDA authorization follows review of the IQOS 3 Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) submitted by Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI). Philip Morris ...

Peak Carbon Emissions Fall, But Faster Decline Needed Global carbon emissions peaked in 2019, but the world is heading for a 3.3-degree rise in temperature by 2100, Bloomberg research says. Dec092020 Image by Gerd Altmann via Pixabay The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted all industry sectors and all aspects of our lives. But one positive effect, research shows, was a substantial drop in energy demand, which is estimated to remove some 2.5 years’ worth of energy sector emiss...

Northport/Supplied The 261m Constantinos P, which berthed on Sunday, is Northports largest visitor, laden with Christmas cargo. However, a number of the trucks entering and leaving Northport on Friday morning were capable of carrying two or three containers, suggesting National Road Carriers’ estimates of truck movements were high. The port was busy, not only with container trucks but also with logging trucks supplying the ports main staple. Denise Piper/Stuff A large container truck, capab...