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Vintage Power Museum to take people back in time as they host a 'mini' festival
For those who are looking to take a ride on a steam engine tractor, watch a blacksmith do some work, or check out many antique items head on down to the Vintage Power Museum Mini Threshing Festival th...
Sep 17, 2021
Battlefords farmers markets reporting positive sales over summer
Battlefords area farmers markets are reporting a good response from the community attending this year's markets, as more people continue to stay close to home and shop local. This was the first summer...
Sep 17, 2021
Pricing changes to be made at Cooke Golf Course for future improvements
The Cooke Municipal Golf Course will be featuring an increase to prices next season to help with the cost of future improvements to the course.Next year the golf course will see a four percent increas...
Sep 17, 2021
High turnout of mail-in ballots, drop-offs available
As election day looms right around the corner, those who haven't mailed in their ballots have options to get them in on time, adding to another extremely high turnout of early voting.There were around...
Sep 17, 2021
Tenacious Belgium immigrant pioneered Canada's mussel industry in the 1970s
CHARLOTTETOWN - When Joe Van Den Bremt first floated the idea of producing cultured mussels on P.E.I. in the 1970s, the local fishermen laughed at him. "They were all telling me, 'We use that stuff fo...
Sep 17, 2021
Montreal Alouettes face B.C. Lions minus head coach Khari Jones in COVID-19 isolation
MONTREAL - With head coach Khari Jones in COVID-19 isolation, the Montreal Alouettes' play-calling Saturday will be by committee led by Andre Bolduc. The Alouettes (2-2) are at home to the B.C. Lions ...
Sep 17, 2021
Veteran TFC fullback Justin Morrow looks to keep making a difference post-soccer
TORONTO - Justin Morrow cost Toronto FC some US$100,000 in allocation money when he came over in a December 2013 trade with the San Jose Earthquakes. Back then, it was a fair chunk of change - a sourc...
Sep 17, 2021
NBCHS take senior football opener with stout defence, late heroics
Strong defence, solid special teams and timely offense was the recipe for success for the North Battleford Comprehensive High School (NBCHS) Vikings Thursday evening, as the senior football team won t...
Sep 17, 2021
Kane says he didn't know in 2010 about assault allegations
CHICAGO - Blackhawks star Patrick Kane said Friday he has participated in the investigation into allegations that a then-assistant coach sexually assaulted two players in 2010, adding that he did not ...
Sep 17, 2021
RCMP seeks search, access powers at Fairy Creek to safely execute expiring injunction
NANAIMO, B.C. - The RCMP says it needs more powers to search and exclude people at an old-growth logging protest area on Vancouver Island where about 1,000 arrests have already been made. A federal go...
Sep 17, 2021