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President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One en route to Florida at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on Jan. 25.

Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more refugees and floats plan to ‘just clean out’ Gaza

The president told reporters on Air Force One that he discussed his vision with King Abdullah II of Jordan and would speak soon with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt.

Trump’s Q&A on Air Force One goes from the plane’s color scheme to the fate of TikTok and Canada

President Donald Trump waves to supporters after speaking at a rally at Circa Resort & Casino on Jan. 25 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Trump defends dismissal of dozen federal inspectors general

President Trump said that his sudden late-night purge of the independent officials was "a very common thing to do."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 15.

Pence wages lonely crusade against Kennedy over abortion

Former vice president Mike Pence, a longtime leader of the anti-abortion movement, is trying to defeat the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for health secretary. But he isn't making much headway.

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde speaks during the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

Bishop Budde has some nerve!

Our great and glorious leader was ambushed on Tuesday morning.

Solid ice. ‘This feels like old-timey New England’
Massachusetts is experiencing a cold snap like it hasn’t felt in years, and with it has come a proper outdoor skating season.

GOLF

‘Golf has been therapeutic.’ Noah Kahan talks about his game as he joins TGL’s Boston Common Golf as an investor

For Kahan, TGL’s format is something he hopes can grow the game with a younger audience.

Bobby Owens at Bay State Restaurant Products with the special bar-pizza pans the company sells.

How the bar pie craze made a Brockton man ‘America’s first and only celebrity pizza pan salesman’

Part of the appeal of the bar pizza phenomenon is that it existed for generations at dive bars south of Boston before foodies identified it as a unique regional delicacy.

COVID-19 likely started with a lab leak in Wuhan, China, the CIA now says

A new assessment by the CIA says that COVID-19 was likely the result of an accidental leak from a research laboratory in Wuhan, China. But a jump from a market is possible.

What we know about the people involved in a fatal shootout with Border Patrol in Vermont

Days after a highway shootout in Vermont, authorities have identified the two individuals at the center of the fatal traffic stop near the Canadian border.

Tactical gear, night goggles: Here's what was found in the car of the suspect in the fatal VT border shooting

Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone? The final JFK assassination records won’t end the controversy, experts say.
Experts on the John Kennedy assassination aren’t expecting any game-changing evidence, but rather the last pieces of an historical record that remains an unfinished jigsaw puzzle.

DOJ drops case against Texas doctor who shared transgender care data

The doctor, Eithan Haim, is accused of sharing personal patient information with a conservative journalist, who used that information to publish a story that Texas Children’s Hospital was secretly providing transgender care for minors.

Madison Chock and Evan Bates match the US record by winning their sixth ice dance national title
The pair easily captured their fourth consecutive US crown, while Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov were surprise winners in the pairs competition.

An airport piano was filthy and out of tune. He fixed it during a layover.

“I decided this is it — I’m going to tune that piano,” he said.

The intriguing phenomenon helping planes slingshot across the Atlantic at 800 mph

Jaylen Brown scored 22 points against the Mavericks and was credited in the Celtics' locker room for offering words of inspiration.

Celtics 122, Mavericks 107

Celtics tame Mavericks following slow start to score championship-level victory

All five Celtics starters scored 17 points or more, led by Jayson Tatum (24) and Derrick White (23). Boston returns home having won 3 of 4 on a road trip out West.

Dante Giusti poses with a poster after recording his 100th career win for Shawsheen, which won the Vo-Tech State Championship at Greater Lowell.

Six takeaways from a Saturday packed with hockey and wrestling milestones

After the basketball world saw two 1,000-point scorers and a 2,000-point scorer in a 24-hour window, it was hockey and wrestling’s turn to celebrate round numbers Saturday.

Billy Wagner got emotional after being elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame on the 10th try.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Fenway made a big impression on Billy Wagner while he was on the road to Cooperstown

Wagner had a 1.98 earned run average and struck out 22 of the 56 batters he faced in his 15 games for the Red sox in 2009.

Opinion

JEFF JACOBY

Back, at last, to the color-blind principle

Trump's executive order on racial preferences restores the ideal MLK dreamed of.

IDEAS | SHIRA SCHOENBERG

Israel feels very different from the place I once knew

EDITORIAL

Trump’s executive orders mean trouble for clean energy projects, immigrant parents, and transgender people

RENÉE GRAHAM

A bishop’s message of mercy rattled Trump but offered solace to a nation in peril

IDEAS | EVAN SELINGER

Excommunication sounds pretty good about now

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Gunfire and bandits make school an impossible dream for Haitian children
Haitian children, homeless, hungry and often targeted for recruitment by gangs, have become the overlooked victims of the violence that has crippled the country.

The only person in the world with a functioning pig organ is thriving after 2 months
An Alabama woman is doing well a record 61 days and counting after receiving a pig kidney, a new milestone in the quest for animal-to-human transplants.

ICE Boston arrests suspected gang member with 17 criminal convictions in Mass., officials say

Officials said 25-year-old Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles entered the US legally in 2013, but was convicted of 17 crimes between August 2022 and August 2024.

D.W. Field Park in Brockton is closed due to suspected avian flu outbreak

A potential avian flu outbreak caused the closure of D.W. Field Park in Brockton, a week after more than 60 geese, swans, and ducks were found dead at a Plymouth pond 25 miles away.

Hamas frees 4 female Israeli soldiers in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners as ceasefire holds

Hamas militants have handed over four captive female Israeli soldiers to the Red Cross in Gaza City after parading them in front of a crowd.

Would the ‘Frasier’ reboot have made it on a broadcast channel?

Longtime fans of the show might not have looked for it on Paramount+.

In wake of Steward collapse, new state law takes aim at private equity in health care
The first-in-the-nation legislation prohibits hospitals from selling their primary campus to outside investors and establishes financial oversight of investors in a health care provider.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Denzel Washington plays Macrinus in "Gladiator II."

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What’s on your mind? Tell Love Letters.

Kathy Griffin performs at Symphony Hall on Jan. 31.

‘I do every show like it might be my last show’: Kathy Griffin is grateful to be back onstage after Trump photo backlash

Mairead McGonagle and Mark Machesky grew up just minutes apart in Plymouth, but didn't meet until both moved home during the pandemic. They married at Lambert's Cove Inn and Resort in West Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard in November.

The beauty of an off-season wedding on Martha’s Vineyard

Special Projects

Seventh-graders at the Curley School on the first day of school in 1975. (Ulrike Welsch/Globe staff)

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

The Boston Globe explores the legacy of Boston’s busing era.

An Ambulance passed Glenwood Regional Medical Center in West Monroe, La.

A Globe Spotlight Team report on Steward Health Care

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team review found the Steward Health Care hospital system plagued by staggering neglect at the hands of executives.

The Boston Globe’s Best of the Best

Our ultimate guide to more than 200 winners for Boston's best food, drinks, and fun things to do.

Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

An ambulance was parked outside what was Carney Hospital in Boston in the wake of hospital closures in the Steward Health Care system. Steward previously sold its Massachusetts real estate in a sale-leaseback deal that left the hospitals paying onerous rents.

Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt

How to prevent the next Steward Health Care crisis

All five members of the Siman Tov family were murdered by Hamas on Oct 7, 2023, and their home was destroyed.

IDEAS | SHIRA SCHOENBERG

Israel feels very different from the place I once knew

A person types at a backlit keyboard arranged in Danbury, U.K., on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

RENÉE GRAHAM

Why there are no reader comments on my Globe columns

A flag promoting LGBTQ rights sat on the desk of Kansas state Representative Jo Ella Hoye, a Democrat, in the House chamber as Republicans prepared to push for a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

The battle to protect LGBTQ rights is winnable — but will take a fight

Governor Maura Healey left the State House press briefing room after announcing her annual budget plan on Wednesday.

EDITORIAL

Healey’s budget: Candy tax, hospital closures, and a big investment in the T

The photos on these banners in a Beirut suburb say a lot about the governance of Lebanon. On the left is the speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri. On the right is Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by an Israeli strike on Sept. 27. Lebanon hasn’t had a president for two years because Hezbollah keeps blocking candidates.

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Lebanon’s biggest problem is not Israel

Metro

‘Darkness at Midnight:’ Boston University, City of Boston commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Ten days after what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s 96 birthday, around 250 people gathered at Boston University for an event meant to highlight the lesser-known aspects of King’s legacy.

Solid ice. ‘This feels like old-timey New England’

Massachusetts is experiencing a cold snap like it hasn’t felt in years, and with it has come a proper outdoor skating season.

D.W. Field Park in Brockton is closed due to suspected avian flu outbreak

A potential avian flu outbreak caused the closure of D.W. Field Park in Brockton, a week after more than 60 geese, swans, and ducks were found dead at a Plymouth pond 25 miles away.

Tactical gear, night goggles among trove found in fatal Vermont border shooting suspects’ car

Authorities investigating the scene of the fatal shooting of a US border patrol agent at the Vermont border this week discovered a trove of weapons and tactical gear in the suspects’ car.

Sports

Golf

After watching TGL’s five other teams compete, Boston Common Golf is finally on the tee come Monday night

Rory McIlroy, Keegan Bradley, and Adam Scott will square off against a threesome from Jupiter Links featuring legend Tiger Woods.

TGL is played indoors, specifically in one 250,000-square-foot building constructed on the campus of Palm Beach State College near West Palm Beach, Fla.

Golf

What to know about the new TGL golf league and its rules of play

There is one match per week, with three players, one sitting out.

Tackle Christian Barmore was expected to be a huge contributor on the Patriots defensive line, but a battle with blood clots led to the veteran only playing four games this season.

POSITIONAL ANALYSIS | DEFENSIVE LINE

Patriots defensive line, expected to be a strength, was regularly torn apart. Where do they go from here?

New coaching staff and strategy, along with better health and talent, could return this group back into one of the feared units in the NFL.

GARY WASHBURN | ON BASKETBALL

With Jrue Holiday and Derrick White back to their old selves, Celtics rebound from listless loss to Lakers

BC 2, BU 0

No. 1 Boston College men complete weekend sweep in shutout of Hockey East rival Boston University

High schools

Boys’ hockey roundup: Brookline’s Owen Lacy buries winner in Bay State Conference upset of No. 15 Braintree

Business

Trump defends dismissal of dozen federal inspectors general

President Trump said that his sudden late-night purge of the independent officials was "a very common thing to do."

Trump’s crypto venture divides the industry he aims to support

President Trump's promotion of a speculative digital coin left some crypto investors feeling blindsided earlier this month, while others saw it as a gimmick that undermined the industry’s credibility.

Families sue TikTok in France over teen suicides they say are linked to harmful content

BOLD TYPES

National Development’s succession plan takes effect, as cofounder Ted Tye prepares to retire

magazine

Globe Magazine

Meet the social media influencer in Brookline covering good news only (one rule: ‘no politics’)

Miss Conduct

For goodness’ sake, send thank-you notes! Advice from 20 years of Miss Conduct.

PERSPECTIVE

I considered Boston my only home. Then I visited Ireland.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We talked about our “weirdest” traits’

metro

Law enforcement follow a hearse carrying fallen border patrol agent David Maland from the UVM Medical Center morgue to a funeral home in Burlington, Vt., Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025.

What we know about the people involved in a fatal shootout with Border Patrol in Vermont

Bishop Budde has some nerve!

Boston City Hall, a polarizing building to many people, achieves historical landmark status

sports

Madison Chock and Evan Bates put forth another flawless dance at the US Figure Skating Championships Saturday in Wichita, Kan., earning their sixth national title by finishing nearly 10 points clear of second place.

Madison Chock and Evan Bates match the US record by winning their sixth ice dance national title

Harris English holds off Sam Stevens by a shot in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines

Jets agree to terms with Broncos executive Darren Mougey to be their general manager

business

A fire engulfing Sudan's largest oil refinery north of Khartoum, Sudan, on Jan. 24.

Fighting in Sudan’s civil war sets ablaze the country’s largest oil refinery, satellite photos show

IRS expands its free tax filing option

Netflix raised prices again. Here’s how to save money on streaming.

politics

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President Trump's pick to be Secretary of Homeland Security, is sworn in before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for her confirmation hearing.

Senate confirms Kristi Noem as Trump's homeland security secretary

Trump uses mass firing to remove independent inspectors general at a series of agencies

Trump fires at least 12 inspectors general in late-night purge

Nation

Workers secure a net to prevent mudslides over the burned side of a mansion in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, on Jan. 24.

Southern California rain helps firefighters but creates risk of toxic ash runoff

The tech arsenal that could power Trump’s immigration crackdown

DOJ drops case against Texas doctor who shared transgender care data

World

Rapid Support Forces soldiers on a motorbike drive by a destroyed tank belonging to the defeated Sudanese Armed Forces, in Al-Geneina.

Some 70 people killed in attack on hospital in Sudan’s Darfur region, WHO chief says

New leaders in Lebanon face test as Israel is poised to keep troops stationed in the country

Trump’s Q&A on Air Force One goes from the plane’s color scheme to the fate of TikTok and Canada

opinion

The water in the Gulf of Mexico off of East Beach in Galveston, Texas, in June 2023.

No, they can’t take ‘Gulf of Mexico’ away from me

Did Trump just save DEI?

Trump’s new immigration playbook

lifestyle

What’s on your mind? Tell Love Letters.

We’re on a break – but for how long?

The key to feeling less lonely? Getting older.

food & dining

Top Mix puts a Latin spin on the growing Cambridgepark Drive area

During Dry January, business also dries up for restaurants and bars. N.H. has a solution: Mocktail Month.

Café Saint Germain brings French all-day dining to Somerville

travel

The Nikon Prostaff P3 binoculars are tough, made of drop-resistant rubber armor, and are waterproof to 3.3 feet.

Don’t leave home without these travel accessories

Family adventures at Sun Peaks: A journey from snowshoes to snowmobiles

Melissa Manchester on manners, Chopin by the ocean, and ‘Funny Girl’

Arts

Boston City Hall, in all its architectural glory.

Boston City Hall, a polarizing building to many people, achieves historical landmark status

At the Museum of Science, a sonic self-portrait brings neurology to life

Zilia Sánchez, painter who found fame late in life, dies at 98

Books

These books circulated at Brandeis for decades. A trove of Holocaust history was hidden in the pages.

The women of transcendentalism deserve their time in the spotlight

Author readings around Boston through Feb. 1

Movies

Here’s what’s new and good on streaming this weekend

Oscar noms snubs and surprises: ‘Emilia Pérez’ scores a lucky 13 nods, ‘Wicked’ proves popular with 10

Oscars 2025: See the full list of nominees

Television

From left: Host and musical guest Timothée Chalamet and Sarah Sherman during "Saturday Night Live" promos in Studio 8H on Thursday.

Watch: Timothée Chalamet hosts and performs on ‘Saturday Night Live’

Netflix raised prices again. Here’s how to save money on streaming.

Would the ‘Frasier’ reboot have made it on a broadcast channel?

music

Marilyn Manson, whose legal name is Brian Warner, posed for a photo in 2020.

Rocker Marilyn Manson won’t be charged after long investigation of sexual assault allegations

Morgan Wallen announces two shows at Gillette Stadium, part of his summer ‘I’m the Problem’ tour

These are the big concert tours you’ll want to see in Boston this year

Theater/Dance

Mark Morris Dance Group's “The Look of Love” is in Boston through Jan. 26.

Mark Morris’s ‘The Look of Love’ is an upbeat salute to Burt Bacharach and Hal David

‘I do every show like it might be my last show’: Kathy Griffin is grateful to be back onstage after Trump photo backlash

‘Peter Pan’ fails to soar at the Opera House

Health

Tyler Bourne, a developmentally disabled man at Community Connections adult day care program. Staff member Jade Silva helped care for him as Christmas events were being held at the day care facility in December 2023.

Pandemic-era staff shortages ease among Mass. developmental disability service providers

Facing ‘rampant burnout,’ Beth Israel doctors in training vote to unionize

Tell us: What are your pandemic memories, photos and videos?

Obituaries

Charles Longsworth and his wife, Polly, bicycling across the Hampshire College campus in the 1970s when he was president.

Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more refugees and floats plan to ‘just clean out’ Gaza

Trump defends dismissal of dozen federal inspectors general

Pence wages lonely crusade against Kennedy over abortion

Bishop Budde has some nerve!

Solid ice. ‘This feels like old-timey New England’Massachusetts is experiencing a cold snap like it hasn’t felt in years, and with it has come a proper outdoor skating season.

‘Golf has been therapeutic.’ Noah Kahan talks about his game as he joins TGL’s Boston Common Golf as an investor

How the bar pie craze made a Brockton man ‘America’s first and only celebrity pizza pan salesman’

COVID-19 likely started with a lab leak in Wuhan, China, the CIA now says

What we know about the people involved in a fatal shootout with Border Patrol in Vermont

Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone? The final JFK assassination records won’t end the controversy, experts say.Experts on the John Kennedy assassination aren’t expecting any game-changing evidence, but rather the last pieces of an historical record that remains an unfinished jigsaw puzzle.

DOJ drops case against Texas doctor who shared transgender care data

Madison Chock and Evan Bates match the US record by winning their sixth ice dance national titleThe pair easily captured their fourth consecutive US crown, while Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov were surprise winners in the pairs competition.

An airport piano was filthy and out of tune. He fixed it during a layover.

The intriguing phenomenon helping planes slingshot across the Atlantic at 800 mph

Celtics tame Mavericks following slow start to score championship-level victory

Six takeaways from a Saturday packed with hockey and wrestling milestones

Fenway made a big impression on Billy Wagner while he was on the road to Cooperstown

Back, at last, to the color-blind principle

Israel feels very different from the place I once knew

Trump’s executive orders mean trouble for clean energy projects, immigrant parents, and transgender people

A bishop’s message of mercy rattled Trump but offered solace to a nation in peril

Excommunication sounds pretty good about now

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Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle.Commemorations are being held Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops.

Gunfire and bandits make school an impossible dream for Haitian childrenHaitian children, homeless, hungry and often targeted for recruitment by gangs, have become the overlooked victims of the violence that has crippled the country.

The only person in the world with a functioning pig organ is thriving after 2 monthsAn Alabama woman is doing well a record 61 days and counting after receiving a pig kidney, a new milestone in the quest for animal-to-human transplants.

ICE Boston arrests suspected gang member with 17 criminal convictions in Mass., officials say

D.W. Field Park in Brockton is closed due to suspected avian flu outbreak

Hamas frees 4 female Israeli soldiers in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners as ceasefire holds

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Beth TeitellHow Dry January became High JanuaryWith the relentless bad news about alcohol, cannabis retailers are wooing drinkers. “Relax & unwind without the hangover,” reads one come-on.

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Culture & Lifestyle

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What’s on your mind? Tell Love Letters.

‘I do every show like it might be my last show’: Kathy Griffin is grateful to be back onstage after Trump photo backlash

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Israel feels very different from the place I once knew

Why there are no reader comments on my Globe columns

The battle to protect LGBTQ rights is winnable — but will take a fight

Healey’s budget: Candy tax, hospital closures, and a big investment in the T

Lebanon’s biggest problem is not Israel

Metro

‘Darkness at Midnight:’ Boston University, City of Boston commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Solid ice. ‘This feels like old-timey New England’

D.W. Field Park in Brockton is closed due to suspected avian flu outbreak

Tactical gear, night goggles among trove found in fatal Vermont border shooting suspects’ car

Sports

After watching TGL’s five other teams compete, Boston Common Golf is finally on the tee come Monday night

What to know about the new TGL golf league and its rules of play

Patriots defensive line, expected to be a strength, was regularly torn apart. Where do they go from here?

With Jrue Holiday and Derrick White back to their old selves, Celtics rebound from listless loss to Lakers

No. 1 Boston College men complete weekend sweep in shutout of Hockey East rival Boston University

Boys’ hockey roundup: Brookline’s Owen Lacy buries winner in Bay State Conference upset of No. 15 Braintree

Business

Trump defends dismissal of dozen federal inspectors general

Trump’s crypto venture divides the industry he aims to support

Families sue TikTok in France over teen suicides they say are linked to harmful content

National Development’s succession plan takes effect, as cofounder Ted Tye prepares to retire

Meet the social media influencer in Brookline covering good news only (one rule: ‘no politics’)

For goodness’ sake, send thank-you notes! Advice from 20 years of Miss Conduct.

I considered Boston my only home. Then I visited Ireland.

Blind date: ‘We talked about our “weirdest” traits’

metro

What we know about the people involved in a fatal shootout with Border Patrol in Vermont

Bishop Budde has some nerve!

Boston City Hall, a polarizing building to many people, achieves historical landmark status

sports

Madison Chock and Evan Bates match the US record by winning their sixth ice dance national title

Harris English holds off Sam Stevens by a shot in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines

Solid ice. ‘This feels like old-timey New England’
Massachusetts is experiencing a cold snap like it hasn’t felt in years, and with it has come a proper outdoor skating season.

Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone? The final JFK assassination records won’t end the controversy, experts say.
Experts on the John Kennedy assassination aren’t expecting any game-changing evidence, but rather the last pieces of an historical record that remains an unfinished jigsaw puzzle.

Madison Chock and Evan Bates match the US record by winning their sixth ice dance national title
The pair easily captured their fourth consecutive US crown, while Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov were surprise winners in the pairs competition.

Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle.
Commemorations are being held Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops.

Gunfire and bandits make school an impossible dream for Haitian children
Haitian children, homeless, hungry and often targeted for recruitment by gangs, have become the overlooked victims of the violence that has crippled the country.

The only person in the world with a functioning pig organ is thriving after 2 months
An Alabama woman is doing well a record 61 days and counting after receiving a pig kidney, a new milestone in the quest for animal-to-human transplants.

In wake of Steward collapse, new state law takes aim at private equity in health care
The first-in-the-nation legislation prohibits hospitals from selling their primary campus to outside investors and establishes financial oversight of investors in a health care provider.

Beth Teitell
How Dry January became High January
With the relentless bad news about alcohol, cannabis retailers are wooing drinkers. “Relax & unwind without the hangover,” reads one come-on.

TRAVEL
Family adventures at Sun Peaks: A journey from snowshoes to snowmobiles
What we love so much about Sun Peaks are the many activities for all ages that make a family adventure here so much fun.