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‘I’m very happy’: Designer of new Raiders jersey can’t wait to see them on the ice
On Saturday night, the Prince Albert Raiders will debut a new alternate jersey that has already been getting a ton of buzz from fans.The jersey features a newly designed logo that's modelled after the...
Mar 19, 2022

Multiple search warrants executed in Battlefords detachment area
A joint effort from multiple RCMP units resulted in significant seizures of numerous items in the Battlefords area.Early Friday morning, multiple search warrants were executed in relation to the ongoi...
Mar 19, 2022

Pandemic underscores value of culturally sensitive Indigenous health care: experts
Doctors and front-line agencies say COVID-19 has underscored the value of culturally sensitive and community-based health-care services for Indigenous people and the need to continue them past the pan...
Mar 19, 2022

Former GM of Clearwater River Dene First Nation enters guilty plea to fraud
A man responsible for defrauding a northern Saskatchewan First Nation, while employed as their general manager, has been placed on probation for 30 months and ordered to pay back $13,000.Jonny Cheecha...
Mar 19, 2022

4 US troops die in Norway plane crash; unrelated to Ukraine
HELSINKI (AP) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in a plane crash in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle during a NATO exercise unrelated to the Ukraine war, Norway's prime minister said Saturday. Jon...
Mar 19, 2022

Ukraine's leader warns war will cost Russia for generations
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces are blockading his country's largest cities to wear the population down into submission, but he warned Saturday that the strategy will fail ...
Mar 19, 2022

McNinch hat trick leads way, as Stars top Bombers in Game 1
Hats were raining from the stands Friday night at the Access Communications Centre, as captain Ryland McNinch scored his first career playoff hat trick to lead the Battlefords North Stars to a 7-3 win...
Mar 19, 2022

Thompson scores in OT as Sabres beat Flames 1-0
CALGARY - Tage Thompson scored the overtime winner and Dustin Tokarski made 24 saves as the Buffalo Sabres won 1-0 Friday night over the Calgary Flames. Buffalo (21-33-8) has split the first two games...
Mar 18, 2022

China reports first COVID-19 deaths in more than a year
BEIJING (AP) - China's national health authorities reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first recorded rise in the death toll since January 2021, as the country battles an omicron-driven surg...
Mar 18, 2022

Hall scores in third to lift Bruins to a 4-2 victory over Winnipeg Jets
WINNIPEG - Taylor Hall scored a power-play goal with 4:47 left in the third period to help lift the Boston Bruins to a 4-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Friday. Hall took advantage of a bouncing p...
Mar 18, 2022