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Government rebates ‘good start,’ says electric vehicle advocate
You have to look pretty hard to find an electric vehicle in Saskatchewan.According to SGI data, there were barely more than 100 on the road as of February.Jason Cruickshank, founder of the advocacy gr...
May 02, 2019 (file photo/CKOM News Staff)
Convicted poacher back in court
A Prince Albert-area man who engaged in illegal hunting activities four years ago and was fined over $6,000, is again accused of hunting violations. Douglas Carl Risling, 59, appeared Tuesday at Princ...
May 02, 2019 (Dreamstime)
19-year-old director wins top award at Tribeca Film Festival
NEW YORK - Nineteen-year-old filmmaker Phillip Youmans has won the top award at the Tribeca Film Festival. "Burning Cane," which Youmans finished as a 17-year-old graduating high school, on Thursday t...
May 02, 2019
The Giants have landed
It might've been a comfortable flight for the Vancouver Giants, but members were hit with chillier temperatures when they landed in Prince Albert. The temperature at the time of their arrival was 7 Ce...
May 02, 2019 Prince Albert Mayor Greg Dionne helps welcome the Giants' team to Prince Albert. (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)
Raiders’ Brownlee rounds up the 2019 Raider draft
After winning the Scotty Munro Memorial Trophy, the Prince Albert Raiders had to allow the rest of the teams in the WHL have a chance to select before them in the 2019 WHL Bantam Draft. But according ...
May 02, 2019 The Raiders kicked off their draft by selecting Niall Crocker in the opening round of the 2019 WHL Bantam Draft. (Garrett James/Twitter)
City of Prince Albert owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid parking tickets
There are many things the cash strapped City of Prince Albert could do with a quarter of a million dollars.According to recent numbers provided to paNOW by city hall, there are 11,722 outstanding park...
May 02, 2019 By the end of March, there had been 226 parking tickets issued in Prince Albert. (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)
Former Miss Uruguay found dead at a Mexico City hotel
MEXICO CITY - A former Miss Uruguay pageant winner has been found dead at a Mexico City hotel. City prosecutors say a Uruguayan woman was found hanged in the bathroom of one of the hotel's rooms early...
May 02, 2019
Local hotel approved for new waterslide
A long-standing local hotel is getting a major upgrade.Renovations to the Prince Albert Inn are continuing, and the hotel is now getting a waterslide. Prince Albert City Council approved a development...
May 02, 2019 Part of the technical drawings for the planned 225-foot waterslide at the PA Inn. (Submitted Rob Gauthier)
Inspector in Kraft case says she saw evidence of trafficking
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A Florida health inspector testified Tuesday that she saw possible evidence of human trafficking at the massage parlour where police say New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft...
May 02, 2019
Psychiatrist on what doctors to consider when advising patients during Ramadan
VANCOUVER - A Canadian psychiatrist is advising doctors to help address the needs of mentally ill Muslim patients whose medication regimen could be affected by fasting during the upcoming re...
May 02, 2019
