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Camarillo, Calif. – September 25, 2026 -- Gold Coast Health Plan (GCHP) has awarded $2,087,811 in one-year grants to seven providers and community organizations in Ventura County to help Medi-Cal members retain coverage ahead of new federal eligibility rules taking effect in 2027.

GCHP's RISE program brings cumulative community investment past $13 million

The 2026 round is the second year of GCHP's Resilience, Innovation, Sustainability & Equity (RISE) Grant Program, following $11.3 million distributed across 16 grants in 2025. The program has now invested more than $13 million into local providers and community groups since launch.

Chicago – September 25, 2026 -- RND Automation will run a live vertical pouching demonstration and unveil an expanded packaging-equipment lineup at PACK EXPO International 2026, scheduled for October 18-21 at McCormick Place in Chicago. The company will occupy Booth N-5115 in the North Hall, positioning itself as a supplier of configurable automation platforms rather than one-off custom machinery.

KANGA Poucher runs live throughout the four-day show

RND's KANGA Poucher will operate continuously at the booth, packaging a multitool that attendees can take home. The packaging web for the demonstration is supplied by Amcor. The company says the live run is designed to show a repeatable packaging platform that can flex across different products and package formats without requiring ground-up engineering.

Lexington – September 25, 2026 -- Kentucky American Water restored water service to approximately 200 homes in Harlan County within 50 hours after flash flooding tore water lines from the ground in the Ages and Brookside communities.

Crews replace damaged mains after flood destroys Black Mountain Utility District infrastructure

Company crews and contractors deployed to assist Black Mountain Utility District, replacing damaged water mains, service lines and other infrastructure while clearing several tons of mud from the affected system. Kentucky American Water also distributed bottled water to residents during the crisis.

Toronto – September 25, 2026 -- LUG Sports Group Inc. has placed No. 146 out of 375 companies on Report on Business magazine's 2026 list of Canada's Top Growing Companies, marking its second consecutive year on the ranking.

LUG posts 174% three-year revenue growth to secure repeat ranking

The list ranks Canadian businesses on three-year revenue growth, and LUG qualified with a 174% increase over that period and a 239% growth rate over five years. The company also placed No. 5 on the Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation category list.

Bethesda, Md. – September 25, 2026 -- Stayntouch has completed a phased migration of all seven Imperial London Hotels properties onto its cloud property management system, culminating in the cutover of the 1,379-room Royal National Hotel, the largest hotel in Western Europe.

Royal National Hotel becomes largest property on Stayntouch's EMEA platform

The Royal National Hotel's onboarding marks the largest property to join Stayntouch in EMEA to date, demonstrating the platform's capacity to run enterprise-scale operations alongside boutique properties within the same portfolio.

Los Angeles – September 25, 2026 -- Stand8 has expanded its nearshore operations in Mexico to deliver 24x7 Service Desk, Network Operations Center, and technology operations support for large enterprise clients, aligning bilingual technical teams with U.S. operating hours and global service schedules.

Stand8 deploys bilingual Mexico-based teams to cut pressure on onshore support staff

The nearshore model integrates directly into clients' existing platforms, service-level agreements, and governance frameworks, giving enterprises continuous coverage without ceding visibility or control over service delivery. Teams operate within established client workflows, tools, and escalation paths rather than replacing existing structures.

New York – September 25, 2026 -- The Taiwan Tourism Administration (TTA) launched a three-city U.S. workshop series in New York, drawing more than 70 local travel industry representatives and media, before continuing to Chicago and Los Angeles.

Taiwan returns to the Midwest travel trade after a seven-year absence

The delegation, comprising Taiwanese travel agencies, hotels and airlines, marked Taiwan's re-entry into the Chicago market for the first time in seven years as part of the workshop tour.

U.S. arrivals to Taiwan hit 710,000 in 2025, a record for tourism-purpose travel

More than 710,000 U.S. visitors traveled to Taiwan in 2025, with nearly 60% citing tourism as their purpose -- a record high for the destination. Taiwan's air connectivity underpins this volume, with more than 200 weekly round-trip flights linking the island to 13 major North American cities.

New York – September 25, 2026 -- The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) has opened registration for a new public speaker program, "FIT Future//Forward Conversations," pairing sitting executives from Kering, Givaudan and Spin Master with President Jason Schupbach and industry journalists in a bid to position the SUNY-affiliated college as a hub for creative-industry dialogue.

The initiative splits into two tracks: a Presidential Speaker Series featuring CEOs and presidents in one-on-one conversation with Schupbach, and an Innovation Speaker Series pairing journalists with designers and creators. Both are free, open to the public, and will be livestreamed with recordings archived for remote audiences.

Springfield, Mass. – September 25, 2026 -- Baystate Health has become the first hospital in the United States to enroll patients in the PIONEER trial, a national study evaluating Balt Corporation's Silk Vista Baby flow-diverting stent for unruptured brain aneurysms in small blood vessels, treating its first three patients within days of receiving approval.

Baystate enrolls first three U.S. patients in national aneurysm device trial

The PIONEER study is a prospective, multicenter, single-arm trial spanning 35 leading centers in the United States and 5 in Canada, designed to assess the safety and efficacy of the Silk Vista Baby device. Balt Corporation launched the trial to satisfy FDA requirements for broader U.S. market access after the device received full approval from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services following a prolonged review process.

Lowell, Massachusetts – September 25, 2026 -- Infrasense, Inc. has completed a 3D Ground Penetrating Radar investigation covering approximately 1.37 miles of Route 133 pavement in historic Lowell, mapping dowel bars, tie bars and subsurface voids across the full corridor width.

Survey spans both travel directions, shoulders and center turning lane

The engineering team scanned the westbound and eastbound lanes, both shoulders and the center turning lane along the Route 133 corridor to evaluate pavement conditions and structural components.

20-channel sensor captures continuous five-foot-wide subsurface swaths

Data collection was performed with a Kontur DXG1820 sensor, which uses 20 independent channels to gather three-dimensional subsurface information across a continuous five-foot-wide swath, in contrast to traditional single-channel GPR systems.