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Candlelight Processional brings area's best singers, musicians together for holiday tradition
Many vocalists and musicians from around the Battlefords will light up the Dekker Centre this year with their upcoming performance of The Candlelight Processional.A holiday tradition, the show feature...
Oct 28, 2019 Jo Carter is shown on piano with many of the vocalists during a recent rehearsal for the Candlelight Processional show. (Submitted photo/Paul Sayers)
Multiple homicides, shooting ramp up pressure on Winnipeg police resources
WINNIPEG - The police chief in Manitoba's capital says a deadly weekend has strained resources as investigators deal with three homicides and a shooting that left four people, including an infant, in ...
Oct 28, 2019
Campaign to collect feminine hygiene products for YWCA
A new campaign is hoping to help the Prince Albert YWCA and challenge a social taboo in the process.From Oct. 28 to Nov. 9, Lake Country Co-op will be collecting feminine hygiene products for the YWCA...
Oct 28, 2019 (Mike Stewart/The Canadian Press)
RCMP, feds pressed to find missing reservist with alleged links to neo-Nazis
OTTAWA - A Manitoba army reservist accused of harbouring ties to neo-Nazis remains unaccounted for two months after he was first reported missing. Master Cpl. Patrik Mathews disappeared at t...
Oct 28, 2019
Roughriders, Stampeders still battling for first in West Division standings
They've been a fixture atop the West Division standings since 2010, but the Calgary Stampeders will need help to finish there this season. Calgary (11-6) enters the final weekend of the regular s...
Oct 28, 2019
Accused in $100,000 meth bust make first court appearance
One of two men charged following a massive methamphetamine bust in Prince Albert has been released from custody with conditions including abiding by a curfew and not possessing any firearms. Norman We...
Oct 28, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
Man accused in newspaper shooting is changing his plea
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - An attorney for the man accused of killing five Maryland newspaper employees last year told a court Monday that he will plead guilty but not criminally responsible by reason of insani...
Oct 28, 2019
Robert Evans, iconic producer of 'Chinatown,' dies at 89
NEW YORK - Robert Evans, the protean, fast-living Hollywood producer and former Paramount Pictures production chief who backed such seminal 1970s films as "Chinatown," ''The Godfather" and "Harold and...
Oct 28, 2019
McKerracher receives CJFL Rookie of the Year
La Ronge's Justin McKerracher is making a name for himself in the Canadian Junior Football League.He was recently selected by the Prairie Football Conference as the Rookie of the Year for his strong p...
Oct 28, 2019 Justin McKerracher (second on the left) finished his first season with Regina Thunder. (submitted photo/Justin McKerracher)
Utility says power lines may have started 2 California fires
SAN FRANCISCO - The Pacific Gas & Electric Co. utility says its power lines may have started two wildfires over the weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area. The company reported the incidents near t...
Oct 28, 2019