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Little Red River Park to host fire investigation training course
Prince Albert residents may have noticed smoke to the north of the city, as controlled burns took place in the upper plains area of Little Red River Park Wednesday afternoon.Officials from the Prince ...
Apr 28, 2021
'We miss her:' Father of Alberta teen who died convinced she had COVID-19 variant
MAGRATH, Alta. - Ron Strate says he has received about a thousand messages from people in Canada and around the world who have been touched by the story of his 17-year-old daughter, Sarah. The senior ...
Apr 28, 2021
Police: 4 people killed in German hospital, woman detained
BERLIN - Four people were found dead at a hospital in the eastern city of Potsdam late Wednesday and a woman was detained, police said. A spokesman for Brandenburg state police said officers were call...
Apr 28, 2021
Canada's Olympic swim trials pushed back because of Ontario's COVID-19 spike
TORONTO - Canada's Olympic swim trials have been delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic situation in Ontario. The primary means of selection for Canada's team bound for Tokyo this summer has been pu...
Apr 28, 2021
Senate votes to reinstate methane rules loosened by Trump
WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats are moving to reinstate regulations designed to limit potent greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas fields, as part of a broader effort by the Biden administrat...
Apr 28, 2021
Juror: Chauvin deliberations 'should have been 20 minutes'
MINNEAPOLIS - A juror who cast one of the unanimous votes to convict a white former Minneapolis police officer of killing George Floyd said deliberations were primarily spent trying to convince one pe...
Apr 28, 2021
Girl Scout cookies take flight in Virginia drone deliveries
Missing out on Thin Mints in the pandemic? A Google affiliate is using drones to deliver Girl Scout cookies to people's doorsteps in a Virginia community. The town of Christiansburg has been a testing...
Apr 28, 2021
'1619 Project' writer to join UNC journalism school faculty
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will join the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's journalism school in July as the Knig...
Apr 28, 2021
Wary Supreme Court weighs student's Snapchat profanity case
WASHINGTON - A wary Supreme Court on Wednesday weighed whether public schools can discipline students for things they say off campus, worrying about overly restricting speech on the one hand and leavi...
Apr 28, 2021
B.C. Supreme Court rejects Wet'suwet'en bid to toss LNG pipeline certificate
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Supreme Court has rejected a bid to quash the extension of the environmental assessment certificate for the natural gas pipeline at the centre of countrywide protests ...
Apr 28, 2021
