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Consider climate impact on infrastructure suffering repeated flooding: experts
With key infrastructure in the Maritimes and Quebec again threatened by surging waterways, flooding experts say it's past time for fixes that consider worst-cas...
Apr 25, 2019
City of Ottawa declares state of emergency due to threat of flooding
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has declared a state of emergency over flooding along the Ottawa River and other waterways. In the declaration, the mayor's office says the water levels pos...
Apr 25, 2019
City of Ottawa declares state of emergency due to threat of flooding
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has declared a state of emergency over flooding along the Ottawa River and other waterways. In the declaration, the mayor's office says the water levels pos...
Apr 25, 2019
Local community organization gets funding for anti-gang initiatives
The provincial government is funding anti-gang strategies across the region, including one here at home in Prince Albert. Ten community-based organizations will receive funding as part of the province...
Apr 25, 2019 file photo/paNOW Staff
About one per cent of deaths in Canada medically assisted, Health Canada says
OTTAWA - Almost 7,000 Canadians have received medical help to end their lives since Canada legalized assisted dying three years ago. According to the latest interim report compiled by Health Cana...
Apr 25, 2019
About one per cent of deaths in Canada medically assisted, Health Canada says
OTTAWA - Almost 7,000 Canadians have received medical help to end their lives since Canada legalized assisted dying three years ago. According to the latest interim report compiled by Health Cana...
Apr 25, 2019
Judges: Michigan must redraw congressional, legislative maps
LANSING, Mich. - A three-judge federal panel ruled Thursday that Michigan's congressional and legislative maps were unconstitutionally gerrymandered for partisan gain, ordering the state Legislature t...
Apr 25, 2019
Judges: Michigan must redraw congressional, legislative maps
LANSING, Mich. - A three-judge federal panel ruled Thursday that Michigan's congressional and legislative maps were unconstitutionally gerrymandered for partisan gain, ordering the state Legislature t...
Apr 25, 2019
Update: Fire east of Moosomin First Nation burns into night
A fire east of the Moosomin First Nation, which is about 30 kilometres north of North Battleford, burned into the night.A view of the fire's smoke from Highway 378 Thursday evening. (Tyler Marr/battle...
Apr 25, 2019 Smoke from a fire burning east of the Moosomin First Nation hung in the sky well after sunset. (Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Employment needs, infrastructure among local chamber's concerns shared at roundtable talk
Employment for grads, mental health needs, improved infrastructure and challenges with the carbon tax.These were a few of the key issues discussed when the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce members sat ...
Apr 25, 2019 Linda Machniak (Battlefords Chamber of Commerce), centre, with Elissa LaLiberte, left, and Joshua Kurkjian, right, (both of the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce), shown following Wednesday's roundtable meeting in North Battleford. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)