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Shantel Kalika hits the home track in NASCAR Pinty’s series
Shantel Kalika is looking forward to Wednesday evening in Saskatoon. The Prince Albert native will be racing on her home track at the Wyant Group Raceway.It's a stop on the NASCAR Pinty's series where...
Jul 24, 2019 (Submitted photo/CKOM News)

Review: In Tarantino's latest, a radiant Hollywood fable
Quentin Tarantino has, for a while now, been reminding us what's so great about movies - or at least, what he thinks is so great about them. He's made an old-fashioned double-feature ("Death Proof," o...
Jul 24, 2019

Slow ratings start for CBS' O'Donnell after first week
NEW YORK - CBS chose the middle of the summer for Norah O'Donnell to debut as "CBS Evening News" anchor, so probably should not be surprised that not too many people noticed. The Nielsen company said ...
Jul 24, 2019

John Prine postpones shows due to stent surgery
NASHVILLE - Americana singer-songwriter John Prine is postponing several shows this summer so he can have surgery to insert a stent to prevent a stroke. A statement on Prine's website on Tuesday said ...
Jul 24, 2019

Stars to frame global poverty issues in new NatGeo series
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Common, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Hugh Jackman are enlisting in the Global Citizen movement. They're among the celebrities featured in a National Geographic docuseries highligh...
Jul 24, 2019

Waskesiu chamber against idea of a toll for the bridge in Prince Albert
Count Waskesiu among those against a toll for the Diefenbaker Bridge in Prince Albert.The city council in that city is considering the idea now that a report on the costs and potential revenues has be...
Jul 24, 2019 Prince Albert city council passed a motion to look into the possibility of tolling the Diefenbaker Bridge. (Jeff Labine/PaNOW)

Trump to host state dinner for Australian prime minister
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are hosting an official visit and state dinner in September for the prime minister of Australia, a conservative, who like Trump, defied...
Jul 24, 2019

Professional Bull Riders Classic just days away
North Battleford will soon play host to some of the top bull riding talent from as far as Mexico and Brazil as the Gold Eagle Casino PBR Classic hits the Civic Centre on Thursday.With 30 riders expect...
Jul 24, 2019 (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)

Indian celebrities protest attacks on dissent, minorities
NEW DELHI - Dozens of Indian celebrities have asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene and stop rising incidents of attacks on minorities, misuse of religion by Hindu hard-liners and intoleranc...
Jul 24, 2019

Crime rate rose in 2018 but country still safer than a decade ago, StatCan says
OTTAWA - The rate and severity of crime both ticked up in 2018, for a fourth year in a row, according to Statistics Canada. The national statistics agency said Monday the overall crime rate was u...
Jul 24, 2019