UPDATE: Westmoreland County commissioners have decided to bring in the National Guard to assist at Westmoreland Manor.The role of the Guard will be to take over testing at the county-operated nursing facility, allowing management to return to normal duties.Commissioners met with Excela Health and the Regional Response Health Collaboration Program about the issue on Thursday.Of…
The burnt wreck of the vehicle of a witness in an investigation into a beneficiary of National Lotteries Commission. The cars of two key witnesses in an investigation relating to beneficiaries of the National Lotteries Commission were allegedly torched.The DA calls that all witnesses are protected.Both witnesses cooperated with the Department of Trade, Industry and…
Share on PinterestA large number of LGBTQ+ youths have encountered adversity and experienced mental health issues.Since 2019, the nonprofit organization The Trevor Project, who offer mental health and suicide prevention support to LGBTQ+ youths in the United States, have been running a nationwide mental health survey.The results of their 2020 survey paint a stark picture.…
Gallo Images/Darren Stewart Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said he was comfortable with how the Eastern Cape was responding to Covid-19.This is despite mounting calls from the public and politicians asking him to take over the running of the province's hospitals.The province's overwhelmed hospitals have been in disarray and the department dogged by blunders amid a…
Democratic Alliance MP Mat Cuthbert. Parliament's chief legal advisor found that the National Lotteries Commission's refusal to provide its beneficiary lists to Parliament wouldn't "withstand constitutional scrutiny".The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry now wants this information.The NLC previously published these lists but, after corruption allegations, said it would be illegal to publish them.The National…
Published: November 07, 2026, 9:48 pm The County of San Luis Obispo Department of Public Health is wrapping up its investigation into an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to Brookshire Farms in San Luis Obispo. Fifteen people are included in the outbreak – five who were laboratory confirmed. The county previously reported that
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Published: November 06, 2026, 10:41 pm Last updated: November 07, 2026, 12:20 am A California pumpkin patch and petting zoo associated with an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections reopened Nov. 6 with the owners saying environmental tests for the pathogen had come back negative. The San Luis Obispo county health department has not posted