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Vlhova denies Holdener 1st WCup slalom win; Shiffrin DNF'd
KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) - Petra Vlhova cemented her status as the leading female slalom skier of the season with her fifth win from six races on Sunday with just a month to go before the Olympic ...
Jan 09, 2022

Location chosen for Lloydminster arena project
The City of Lloydminster approved a location for a new event arena during a special council meeting this week.City-owned land, just east of 40th Ave and south of the Gold Horse Casino, is where the pr...
Jan 09, 2022

Efforts to establish First Nation school board in Yukon decades in the making
VANCOUVER - Parents at eight schools in Yukon are voting on a proposal that could put the control of education for their children in the hands of the territory's Indigenous bands, the result of an eff...
Jan 09, 2022

Will he stay or will he go? Djokovic's hearing looms large
After four nights in an Australian immigration detention hotel, Novak Djokovic will get his day in court Monday in a deportation case that has polarized opinions and elicited heartfelt support for the...
Jan 09, 2022

Broncos maintain home win record as they welcomed North Stars
The Humboldt Broncos earned their first win of 2022 following a visit from the Battlefords North Stars in Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) action Saturday night.The Green and Gold continue to ...
Jan 09, 2022

First Nation says Alberta is preventing it from taking control of child welfare
A First Nation in Alberta says it's been nearly three months since it was supposed to take legal control of its own child welfare but the provincial government won't recognize the arrangement made pos...
Jan 09, 2022

Survey finds oilsands environmental monitoring ineffective after 10 years
EDMONTON - Alberta doesn't have a good grasp of the overall environmental impacts of the oilsands a decade after implementing monitoring that was supposed to provide it, internal government documents ...
Jan 09, 2022

Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson will seek reelection
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, one of former President Donald Trump's most vocal supporters, said Sunday that he will seek reelection, avoiding a wide open GOP pri...
Jan 09, 2022

Biden shied away from news conferences, interviews in Year 1
WASHINGTON (AP) - In what's become a familiar scene President Joe Biden lingered after delivering a recent speech on the pandemic as reporters fired a barrage of questions. He bristled at a query abou...
Jan 09, 2022

Arizona's auto aspirations make for unlikely ally in Canada's EV tax-credit fight
WASHINGTON - From its arid desert climate to its mercurial, centre-right politics, the southern border state of Arizona hardly seems to have much in common with Canada beyond winter-wary snowbirds. Bu...
Jan 09, 2022