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After just four years in business in Melfort, the Emporium on Burrows is closing their doors.There are many compounding factors that have led to the decision to close up shop.Owner Gloria Carrier told...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Council members from the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in northern Alberta toured the areas affected by flooding last night. Regional fire Chief Jody Butz took Mayor Don...

SYDNEY, Australia - The head of the IOC's co-ordination commission for the Tokyo Olympics said Wednesday he disagrees with suggestions by some scientists and doctors that a vaccine for COVID-19 is nee...

The inmate discipline system at provincial correctional centres was among the key highlights of the Provincial Ombudsman's 2019 report.Under legislation, inmates are entitled to a full and fair hearin...

The Town of Nipawin is getting a bit more than they expected when it comes to their Water Treatment Plant project.Initially budgeted at about $20.8 million, the project came in at about $1.6 million u...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada reports nearly one-third of Canadian businesses who responded in a newly released survey have seen their revenues plummet by 40 per cent as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic...

WASHINGTON - The Navy will conduct a legal investigation of circumstances surrounding the spread of the coronavirus aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, a move that effectively delays a...

TOKYO - New rumours about Kim Jong Un pour in daily. The North Korean leader is dead. Or he's very ill. Or maybe he's just recuperating in his luxury compound, or isolating himself from the coronaviru...

OTTAWA - The House of Commons will be asked today to give rapid approval to legislation authorizing $9 billion in promised financial assistance for students facing bleak summer job prospects in t...

NEW DELHI - Irrfan Khan, a veteran character actor in Bollywood movies and one of India's best-known exports to Hollywood, has died. He was 54. Khan played the police inspector in "Slumdog Millionaire...