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Raiders gain one point, lose second in shootout with Wheat Kings
The efforts have been steadily improving for the Prince Albert Raiders, but unfortunately, the points haven't been coming in the standings. The team earned one point but couldn't snag the second, fall...
Oct 30, 2021
Melfort's Smile helps fund the North Central Health Care Foundation
Through Tim Horton's smile cookie sales, funds were raised to support new hospital equipment in the northeast, so that the joy extends beyond the cookies. Tim Horton's across Canada sold smile cookies...
Oct 30, 2021
Canada Post investigating mailbox vandalism complaints
With the Christmas card season just around the corner, Prince Albert residents are being encouraged to be extra vigilant, and to check their mail regularly, following a number of vandalism related inc...
Oct 30, 2021
Facts about Manitoba Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Heather Stefanson
WINNIPEG - Heather Stefanson is a veteran member of the Manitoba legislature and has been a cabinet minister for five years. She is one of two candidates for the Progressive Conservative party leaders...
Oct 30, 2021
Decorations get super-sized for second pandemic-era Halloween
An unfamiliar noise hums in the late-October air on evening strolls through some Canadian neighbourhoods. It's not the whooshing of witches on brooms overhead, the howling of werewolves or the lament ...
Oct 30, 2021
Manitoba's governing Tories pick new leader during controversy over ballots
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's governing Progressive Conservatives are to choose a new party leader today who will become the province's next premier. Party members are deciding between former health minister ...
Oct 30, 2021
Sudan security forces shoot dead 2 protesters, doctors say
CAIRO (AP) - The Sudan Doctors Committee, a professional union, says security forces have shot dead two people during a mass protest against the country's recent military coup. Saturday's fatal shooti...
Oct 30, 2021
'We can hardly keep up': Education key to combat human trafficking, experts say
VANCOUVER - More education in human trafficking is needed across Canada to combat the growing issue, which has been made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic, experts say. Julie Jones, a former police detec...
Oct 30, 2021
Trudeau expected to add more doses to Canada's vaccine donations at the G20 today
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce added donations of vaccines today for developing countries at the G20 meeting in Rome. COVID-19 and climate change will dominate most dis...
Oct 30, 2021
Stars fall 5-1 to Broncos in NB
The Battlefords North Stars fell 5-1 to the rival, Humboldt Broncos Friday, in North Battleford. Dace Prymak scored the lone goal for the Stars with his sixth of the season, while Michael Harroch stop...
Oct 29, 2021