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Frustration aired at downtown parking feedback session
While some downtown users and business owners feel the parking situation is a mess at the best of times, others say the issue is artificial and can be easily solved.About 20 business owners, employees...
Jul 04, 2019 (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)

Tisdale 4-H Beef Club steers into Show and Sale weekend
A year's worth of work for young cattle raisers will be on display at the Melfort Agriculture Grounds.The Tisdale 4-H Beef Club will host their Achievement Day on Friday, July 5, where 28 of their mem...
Jul 04, 2019 Young cattle raisers aged six to 21 will showcase the cows, steers, and heifers they've raised for nearly a year during the Tisdale 4-H Beef Club Achievement Day and Melfort Regional Beef Show and Sale (Facebook/Tisdale 4-H Beef Club).

'You have your heart back:' Chief Red Pheasant's Treaty Medal returns home
Amidst the sound of beating drums, song and dance, a Chief Red Pheasant's Treaty Medal finally came home to rest at Cree Nation that bears his name after 134 years."It was very emotional and surreal.....
Jul 04, 2019 Red Pheasant Chief Clint Wuttunee holds former Chief Red Pheasant's Treaty Medal that was returned to the First Nation. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)

Sapego signs with Marlies
Defenceman Sergei Sapego is the latest Prince Albert Raider to sign a professional contract, inking with the Toronto Marlies on Thursday morning.After being passed over in the 2019 NHL Draft, Sapego e...
Jul 04, 2019 Sergei Sapego recorded 13 points in 23 playoff games with the Raiders this year, helping the team to the WHL Championship. (Jeff D'Andrea/paNOW Staff)

P.A. athletes heading to Austria
The team representing Canada at a prestigious gymnastics event in Austria next week has a number of Prince Albert connections.Dilynn Bell and Brent Ertman are among the participants, Prestyn Sogge is ...
Jul 04, 2019 For the first time ever, Team Saskatchewan will represent Canada at the International Federation of Gymastics (FIG) Gala (Facebook/ Gym Sask.)

Mexico buses home dozens of asylum seekers returned by US
MEXICO CITY - Dozens of Central Americans who had been returned to the border city of Juarez to await the outcome of their U.S. asylum claims were being bused back to their countries Tuesday by Mexica...
Jul 04, 2019

Ottawa QB Davis to face former team when Redblacks host Blue Bombers
Ottawa Redblacks quarterback Dominique Davis says he learned the a lot during his first two CFL seasons with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He has the opportunity to show just how much on Friday nigh...
Jul 04, 2019

Cartoonist behind anti-Trump image thinks online presence played role in contract ending
A recent editorial cartoon taking aim at Donald Trump may have brought an Atlantic Canadian artist to international attention, but the man behind the image does not believe th...
Jul 04, 2019

Boyle's lawyer says alleged victim lied to the court about legal advice
OTTAWA - Defence lawyer Lawrence Greenspon is suggesting former Afghanistan hostage Caitlan Coleman lied this week when she testified in her estranged husband's criminal trial she got approval from he...
Jul 04, 2019
Quake rattles Southern California; some damage far from LA
LOS ANGELES - A strong earthquake rattled a large swath of Southern California and parts of Nevada on Thursday, rattling nerves on the July 4th holiday and causing some damage in a town near the epice...
Jul 04, 2019