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The commonwealth reported more than 4,800 new cases as hospitals struggle to care for the increase in patients. The data showed a sharp rise in state cases.

COVID patients in ICU are at an all-time high with 466 people, with a significant percent of those patients being unvaccinated.

As most of the country’s theme parks reopen to visitors, operators look to regain momentum — and travel advisors have honed their advice for park-bound...

Summer Vacations Are Selling Out Fast. Here’s How To Outsmart The Crowds Demand for travel is sky high but many top hotels, resorts and rental homes are already booked for the season. Here’s where to look and what to book instead. In a normal year, planning a summer vacation weeks before Memorial Day weekend would leave a traveler spoiled for choice. But as the country awakens from its Covid-19 hibernation, this season is shaping up to be anything but normal. “The pent-up demand is real,” says Betsy O’Rourke, CMO for Xanterra, the country’s largest national park...

  HALIFAX -- Residents of a small town 250 kilometres east of Halifax are fighting to prevent the removal of a hunk of black metal that has been sitting offshore for the past 100 years. "It's just a big, rusty boiler," Rachel Langley, resident of Drum Head, N.S., said in an interview Monday. "Maybe it is an eyesore, but it means something." The boiler is an important feature of life in the community of 37 people, Langley said, adding that for years, the metal has been a point of interest for divers and fishers. The boiler is the last remaining piece of the Scotia, a steam-powered vessel...