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Create new coast-to-coast energy corridor to get pipelines built: Scheer
TORONTO - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says Canada needs a coast-to-coast energy corridor where it would be easy to build pipelines and power lines. In a speech laying out his economic vision bef...
May 16, 2019

St. Brieux Senior Boys Basketball team wins sportsmanship banner to conclude historic season
Since Head Coach Ryan Trumbley and Assistant Coach Erin Bernherd took over the St. Brieux School Senior Boys Basketball team nearly two years ago, they had two goals for their boys: win HOOPLA as prov...
May 16, 2019 The St. Brieux Senior Boys Basketball team and SHSAA Executive Director Lyle McKellar (far left) pose with the HOOPLA Provincial Championship and Sportsmanship Award banners. (Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff)

2019 Memorial Cup: A look at each of the four teams at this year's tournament
HALIFAX - It's down to the final four. A season that began with 60 eligible teams spread across nine provinces and four states competing for the Canadian Hockey League's biggest prize is down to ...
May 16, 2019

NTSB: Autopilot was in use before Tesla hit semitrailer
DETROIT - A Tesla Model S involved in a fatal crash with a semitrailer in Florida March 1 was operating on the company's semi-autonomous Autopilot system, federal investigators have determined. The ca...
May 16, 2019

Head coach George Burnett still searching for first Memorial Cup title
HALIFAX - Guelph Storm general manager/head coach George Burnett won't call it the most difficult road a team has ever taken to get to the Memorial Cup. But he sure followed a much easier path&nb...
May 16, 2019

Carnival worker accused of killing 2 missing women, teen
Two missing women and a missing teenage girl were shot to death by a carnival worker who met them through the travelling show, authorities in Virginia say. James Michael Wright, 23, is accused of kill...
May 16, 2019

Saskatchewan Roughriders sign veteran punter Jon Ryan to one-year deal
REGINA - Punter Jon Ryan has returned home. The 37-year-old Regina native signed a one-year deal with the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Tuesday. The six-foot, 217-pound Ryan returns to the CFL following...
May 16, 2019

Trudeau says U.S. state abortion bans are 'backsliding on women's rights'
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is deeply disappointed in a "backsliding on women's rights" happening in American states moving to ban abortion access. Alabama's legislature p...
May 16, 2019

Woman tells Winnipeg murder trial drugs blossomed into romance
WINNIPEG - One of five women who lived with a man now accused of first-degree murder testified she met him buying methamphetamine but it soon turned romantic. Perez Cleveland, who is 46, has plea...
May 16, 2019

Final preparations begin for community powwow
Over 3,000 people are expected to fill Kinsmen Park later this month for the second annual "Heart of the Youth" community powwow, according to the event's coordinator.Liz Settee, who is also Elder for...
May 16, 2019 (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)