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US home sales jumped to 13-year high before viral outbreak
WASHINGTON - U.S. home sales jumped in February to their highest level in 13 years, a trend that will almost certainly be reversed as people stop showing their property out of fear of infection in the...
Mar 20, 2020
Fond du Lac travel ban in place, band members to receive financial assistance
A request for emergency funding by Fond du Lac Denesuline First Nation Chief Louie Mercredi has been approved by trustees of the Treaty 8 Benefits Trust. A letter written to the band members from the ...
Mar 20, 2020 The travel ban went into effect today. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)
Fed to boost lending to $1 trillion a day to ease credit
WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve moved with unprecedented force and speed Friday to pump huge amounts of cash into the financial system to ease disruptions that have escalated since the viral outbreak...
Mar 20, 2020
Netflix establishes $100 million virus relief fund
LOS ANGELES - Netflix said Friday it is establishing a $100 million relief fund for workers in the worldwide creative community affected by the coronavirus-caused halt of most film and television prod...
Mar 20, 2020
1st Ohio coronavirus death; 11 nursing home cases suspected
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine confirmed the state's first death from the coronavirus was a 76-year-old attorney from the Toledo area who recently travelled to California. Near Dayton, 11 resi...
Mar 20, 2020
You're already working from home, why not work out from home, too?
After having to close their gym Pure Athletics in Prince Albert due to COVID-19 concerns on Tuesday, Whitney and Josh Kapacila were shutting their doors on their only source of income. "The stress lev...
Mar 20, 2020 Staci Hayes (left) works out with her daughters Janaea and Kiera by using Pure Athletics’ livestreams. (Submitted photo/Staci Hayes)
Marble Madness! Obscure sports rule in coronavirus pandemic
PHILADELPHIA - Welcome to the Marble Universe, where the rushing of glass balls down race tracks, around sandy beach corners or getting thumped by fidget spinners has suddenly become as captivating as...
Mar 20, 2020
Toronto Blue Jays send Anthony Kay, Sean Reid-Foley to triple-A
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays have optioned left-hander Anthony Kay and right-hander Sean Reid-Foley to triple-A Buffalo. The moves come during an indefinite suspension of all professional baseball ...
Mar 20, 2020
USA Swimming urges USOPC to ask for delay of Tokyo Games
DENVER - The head of USA Swimming urged the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to push for a 12-month postponement of the Tokyo Games, signalling the first fissure between powerful American faction...
Mar 20, 2020
Two presumptive cases of COVID-19 in Prince Albert
Prince Albert has its first presumptive cases of COVID-19.The province's Chief Medical Health Officer said they were two individuals in their 60s who tested in Prince Albert following travel from Ariz...
Mar 20, 2020 The Government of Saskatchewan at its March 20 press conference.(submitted photo/Government of Saskatchewan)
