Liberal-National Coalition and centre-left Labor Party running neck and neck in election focused on rising prices.

Liberal-National Coalition and centre-left Labor Party running neck and neck in election focused on rising prices.
Annual inflation rose to 6.8% last month, up from 6.7% in February, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday in Ottawa.
Government plans would allow first home buyers to dip into their retirement savings for a deposit.
The rapid mortgage rates jump is locking many would-be homebuyers out of the market.
State media reports a tenth survivor has been pulled from the rubble nearly a week after incident in Changsha.
Existing home sales fell 2.7 percent from February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.77 million, data shows.
Mortgage-rate locks to buy second homes dropped last month to the lowest level since May 2020, according to Redfin.
Hundreds of residents of Petropolis in southeastern Brazil remain displaced after devastating flash floods this month.
There are so few homes for sale in Canada that people are starting to call it a housing crisis.
Survivors recall horror of fire that killed 17 people, including eight children, in a Bronx apartment building.
The hottest markets were Phoenix, Arizona (up 32.3%), Tampa, Florida (28.1%) and Miami, Florida (25.7%).
Architect Josephine Malonza tackles Rwanda’s urban housing needs while learning from the country’s painful past.
A new pilot project in Oakland, California will allow unhoused people to co-govern their community.
The average rate on the 30-year benchmark loan jumped to 3.1% from 2.98% last week, Freddie Mac said on Thursday.