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Sports Year in Review: Mustangs memorable run to SJHL Finals
northeastNOW is taking a look back at the biggest and most interesting sports stories of 2019, as selected by our sports reporters Mat Barrett and Aaron Schulze:--The Melfort Mustangs trip to the Sask...
Dec 25, 2019 The Mustangs swarm goalie Noah Giesbrecht after winning Game 6 of the semi-finals in Estevan on April 7, punching their ticket to the finals. (Mat Barrett/northeastNOW Staff)
Local sports highlights from 2019 (Pt. 1/2)
It was a big year for local sports in 2019, with a number of championships won, and memorable moments made. Here is Part 1 of a battlefordsNOW series highlighting some of the top stories from the past...
Dec 25, 2019 There was no shortage of exciting and intriguing storylines around the local sporting world through 2019. Pictured top left to right: BMF Bucks, Levi Scherman and Cory Wouters,. Pictured bottom left to right: Chance and Wyatt Fennig, Biggar Nationals. (File photos/battlefordsNOW)
Sports Year in Review; Gavel wins Parapan Am gold
Prince Albert's Erica Gavel winning Parapan Am gold makes our Top Sports Stories for 2019. Gavel and Team Canada defeated the United States 67-64 on Aug. 30 to win the Women's Wheelchair Basketball go...
Dec 25, 2019 Erica Gavel (top middle) with her Parapan Am gold medal. (Twitter/Canadian Wheelchair Basketball)
ESPN college football reporter Edward Aschoff dies at 34
BRISTOL, Conn. - ESPN college football reporter Edward Aschoff, known for his outgoing and friendly personality, dapper dress and great love of sports, has died. He was 34. The sports network announce...
Dec 25, 2019
N.S. sawmills seeking new markets in wake of announced Northern Pulp closure
HALIFAX - The outlook for Nova Scotia sawmills after the closure of Northern Pulp is one of troubling uncertainty and, so far, few answers from the provincial government on ho...
Dec 25, 2019
Conservative party's fundraising boss takes over temporary helm of party
OTTAWA - The director of fundraising for the federal Conservatives has taken over as acting executive director of the party as it continues to grapple with the fallout from the resignation of leader A...
Dec 25, 2019
Student who saved classmates from shooting honoured as Jedi
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A North Carolina college student hailed by police as a hero for preventing more injuries and deaths after a gunman opened fire in a classroom has now been immortalized as a Jedi by t...
Dec 25, 2019
Former Conservative MP Lisa Raitt to help run race to replace Scheer
OTTAWA - A high-profile Conservative who lost her seat in the last election will help lead the effort to elect a replacement for party Leader Andrew Scheer. The Conservative Party has announced t...
Dec 25, 2019
A look at some of the players to watch at the world junior hockey championship
The 2020 world junior hockey championship starts Thursday in Ostrava and Trinec, Czech Republic. The Canadian Press takes a look at some of the players to watch at this year's under-20 tournament. &nb...
Dec 25, 2019
2019 a year of women in hockey flexing collective muscle for a pro league
The women's hockey landscape didn't just tilt in 2019. It was turned upside down and shaken like a Polaroid picture. From the folding of the Canadian Women's Hockey League to the upending of the estab...
Dec 25, 2019