Betty Nollen squirts disinfectant onto a metal drawer, grips a rag in her rubber-gloved hand and scrubs, erasing all signs of Prairie Creek.The cleaning of truckloads of file cabinets and desks has kept Nollen, 47, of Cedar Rapids, in a positive state-of-

COATBRIDGE and Airdrie have often been described as building sites - mostly for all the wrong reasons. Not so long ago, with Carbuncle Award nominations and empty brownfield sites round every corner, the Monklands area hardly looked healthy.

Two grants totaling nearly $15,000 have been awarded to East Central University’s Social Work Program to encourage more graduates to work with older adults.

A coalition of health-care groups this month unveiled a code of ethics it hopes will protect nurses from other countries from abusive employment practices when they take jobs in the United States.

Beijing - Hundreds of children have been forced to work in factories in southern China for low wages and long hours, Chinese newspaper reports said Wednesday. Authorities are trying to find and free them while also arresting the people involved in th...