Summer temperatures are sweltering, trees are still green and the kids are not back in school yet, but health officials are advising everyone to get their flu shots now.

As far as Masconomet girls cross country Joe Casey knows, his memory isn’t giving out on him.

Fear gripped this province last fall. Long lines of anxious parents with small children and babes in arms waited for hours for the swine flu vaccine. So what went so horribly wrong?

Mill Valley’s Sue Glader knows firsthand what it’s like to be a young mother confronting a potentially devastating cancer diagnosis. Glader was 33 years old and the mother of a 1-year-old son when she found a small lump near her left armpit.

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ROCKFORD — What Winnebago County Health Department Administrator Mike Bacon refers to as the annual flu vaccination campaign is off to an early start this year, and for the first time authorities are urging nearly everyone to be vaccinated.

Now, the Cole County Commission has plans to put a new bunkhouse dormitory at the ambulance garage on Southbridge Drive. Commissioners said its one more enhancement to a facility that already features a unique benefit.

Swine flu has claimed 16 lives this winter, and a further 14 people are fighting it in intensive care units. read more

Swine flu has claimed 16 lives this winter, and a further 14 people are fighting it in intensive care units.

Just one year after the Bear Creek School volleyball team brought home an 8th-place trophy from their first-ever state tournament experience, the Grizzlies are ready and raring to make a return trip to Yakima.