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Today’s ACT budget will deliver measures to make the territory the first Australian jurisdiction to abolish stamp duty for all first home buyers, the ACT government says. Under the changes unveiled ahead of the budget today, no first home buyer in the ACT will have to pay stamp duty, beginning in July this year. The…
Less than three weeks after the Montreal Victoire celebrated the franchise’s first Walter Cup, teams across the PWHL have been shaken up like dice in a game of Yahtzee. Four new expansion teams in Hamilton, Detroit, Las Vegas and San Jose have signed five players each over the last week, as the league enters its…
The Rural Municipality (RM) of Corman Park is giving a northern Saskatoon-area planning district a six-month lifeline, following discussions of withdrawing earlier this year. In April, Corman Park’s planning committee considered a report from the RM’s administration on the status of its participation in the Saskatoon North Partnership for Growth (P4G) and the potential options…
Police have arrested a man 10 months after 28-year-old Brandon Yates was fatally stabbed in the Illawarra. The 28-year-old was found with stab wounds to his chest in the early hours of Sunday, August 17, 2025, at a unit on Crown Street in Wollongong. He died in hospital the following Saturday. At 6:30 this morning,…
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The lead developer of the Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas (LNG) project planned for the West Coast has announced benefit agreements…
One example: The school bought the yearbook committee state-of-the-art computers and a negative scanner, and a licence to then-cutting edge desktop publishing software QuarkXPress, chucked a manual at us and basically said, “figure it out.” Our “staff adviser” was a wonderful English teacher, a published poet, who I very much suspect had never used a…
BELFAST — Hundreds of anti-immigrant protesters took to the streets of Belfast on Tuesday, with some setting vehicles alight, after police charged a Sudanese man over a knife attack that left one person with serious neck and head wounds. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. British…
“We need to ensure that Iran comes out of this confrontation unable to reconstitute its own capabilities, as well as those of its proxies,“ said Orit Strock, a member of Israel’s security cabinet, referring to groups like Hamas in Gaza and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Interviewed on Israel’s Army Radio, she voiced hope that Tehran would not…
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The man who paid for a billboard urging Alberta leave Canada says the Town of Taber is ordering it be taken…
Residents in the US state of Mississippi are suing Elon Musk’s xAI and SpaceX, saying a power plant fuelling nearby data centres is blasting “omnipresent and inescapable” noise, eroding their health and home values. The lawsuit, made public in a federal court on Tuesday, local time, alleges Mr Musk’s companies negligently failed to curb the…