San Luis Obispo rang in the season with its 45th annual Holiday Parade on Friday night.
This year’s parade theme was California Dreamin’: “Celebrate the sun, the wine, the beach, and the sights.”
The parade featured colorful floats, dancers, marching bands and, of course, a visit from Santa himself.
Judges handed out awards for entries in the categories of most entertaining, most creative and best in theme.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles brought up another top hitting prospect Tuesday, recalling outfielder Heston Kjerstad from Triple-A Norfolk. The Orioles also announced that they optioned catcher David Bañuelos to Norfolk. Kjerstad is ranked 29th on MLB Pipeline's prospect list. He was the No. 2 pick in the 2020 draft and made his big league debut last season, hitting .233 with two home runs in 13 games. Although he did not make the opening day roster this year, he's hit 10 home runs
The upgrade comes after BCE's stock plummeted to its lowest intraday level in more than 10 years earlier this month.
Saint John is hoping to add new support for affordable housing developers at earlier stages of the building process. The city's growth committee voted Monday to recommend council adopt an affordable housing soft cost grant that would cover 15 per cent of pre-construction costs, up to $25,000. The incentive is part of the city's Housing Accelerator Fund action plan, according to a presentation to the committee from city housing manager Andrew Reid. "A couple of the things that I'm hearing often i
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Uber Technologies Inc. says it has brought its ridesharing platform to Newfoundland and Labrador. The U.S. tech company says its services will be available throughout the Avalon Peninsula with St. John's as the region's main service area. The company is asking people travelling in the province to be patient because wait times may be long as the service gets up and running. It says reliability will increase throughout the peninsula in the coming weeks and months as more drivers
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ÖSTERSUND, Sweden — Sweden's Rasmus and Isabella Wrana handed Canada's Kadriana and Colton Lott their first loss at the world mixed doubles curling championship on Tuesday. Sweden opened up a 4-1 lead midway through the game and held on for a 6-5 win over Canada in a battle for top spot in Group B at the 20-team tournament. The Wrana siblings improved to 6-0 with the win, while the Lotts fell to 5-1. Sweden scored one with the hammer in the opening end and followed with a steal of one in the sec
CVC and Recordati did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comments. A CVC-led consortium of investment funds had agreed to buy 51.8% of Recordati in a deal worth about 3 billion euros in 2018. Shares of Recordati have risen about 7.7% since the beginning of this year, giving the company a market capitalization of about 11 billion euros ($11.77 billion).
Nearly two years after overturning the constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court will consider Wednesday how far state bans can extend to women in medical emergencies. The justices are weighing a case from Idaho, where a strict abortion ban went into effect shortly after the high court's 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The case marks the first time the Supreme Court has considered a state ban since then, and comes as the justices consider another case — still pending — seeking to restrict access to abortion medication.
NEW YORK — The 2024 season of the Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage will officially kick off with a free concert performed by Andra Day in Central Park on June 1. The Grammy Award-winning singer is one of the featured headliners for this year’s outdoor performing arts festival, which will include close to 100 free and benefit shows across New York City’s five boroughs running from ...
The mayor of Grand Bay-Westfield says the town will be able to check off a climate adaptation goal after it received a $60,000 grant for electric vehicle chargers. The town was one of eight municipalities receiving EV charging stations in 2024 from the Charged for Change program led by Earth Day Canada with insurance firm Aviva Canada, according to a press release last week. The town will be installing four Level 2 chargers at the Saint John Transit stop near the River Valley Community Centre an
About six out of 10 working-age adults hit with a cancer diagnosis say it put real pressure on their financial survival, a new report finds.
The club have faced criticism after letting a 3-0 lead slip against second-tier Coventry at Wembley.
The family business ranked in Yelp’s 2023 list of “Top 100 Taco Spots” in the country.
In what amounted to incredibly damning testimony, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker laid out the 2015 deal he reached with Trump “to help the campaign.”
CVC Capital Partners is exploring options for its controlling stake in Italian pharmaceutical group Recordati SpA, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. CVC and Recordati did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comments. A CVC-led consortium of investment funds had agreed to buy 51.8% of Recordati in a deal worth about 3 billion euros in 2018.
Spring came early this year for Saint John's planning department. Building permits in the city during the first quarter up to the end of March were "very busy," growth commissioner Amy Poffenroth told the city's growth committee last week. The early months of the year usually see softer permit numbers because construction season has not yet begun. "We're seeing application numbers right now that we wouldn't typically see until April, May or June, which is typically our very busy time," she said.
Rarely in the recent past have England’s hooker stocks been more depleted. With the captain, Jamie George, as first choice and Theo Dan, his understudy at Saracens, the preferred bench man in the Six Nations, the front-line duo are respectable and balanced. Beneath them, however, there has been cause for concern.
Princess Beatrice, 35, was the epitome of spring as she stepped out in London to support her friend, nutritionist Gabriela Peacock
The owner and manager of the Dali container ship knew it had problems before leaving port March 26 and should pay full damages, city of Baltimore says
A man has been arrested after a nine-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped outside Harrods in London.
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