Gardening isn't just a summer hobby. According to Peter Grobe, who owns Grobe Nursery, there's still a lot of work to be done in the backyard this fall.

Grade 11 Bishop Reding Secondary School student Ritvik Manicka took an interest in plastic pollution early on, and when he found a University of Toronto page examining plastics in our waterways, he collaborated with them on a student-led project that helped him figure out how much plastic is really in some of our rivers.

Tupperware filed for bankruptcy last week, after long facing challenges and its shares tumbling to their lowest level on record. Longtime salesperson Myrtle Mitton says the company allowed her to teach others and to socialize.

Dundas author Cheryl Isaacs recently wrote The Unfinished, a book that tells the tale of residents in a sleepy town called Crook's Falls who start to go missing. Indigenous folklore points to monsters that might be lurking in a nearby pond, as athlete Avery tries to uncover what is going on. Isaacs talks about her new book on CBC K-W's The Morning Edition.

As students return to the classroom, kids may be more likely to catch colds. Two doctors talk about whether sending kids to school when they're sick is OK and how attitudes around colds have changed since the pandemic.

Some families in Waterloo region have been left without child care just days before the start of school due to a software malfunction connected to the One Human Service Network's online registration program.

A University of Guelph course called The Canadian One Health Training Program on Emerging Zoonoses, or COHTPEZ, is set to study how to best combat the next pandemic through the One Health approach.