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Northeastern provincial park closing early after heavy winds damage trees
A provincial park in northeastern Alberta is closing early for the season after wind toppled more than 100 seemingly healthy trees.Gregoire Lake was badly burned in the ferocious 2016 wildfire that de...
Aug 28, 2019 Gregoire Lake
Viola Davis set to play Michelle Obama in proposed series
LOS ANGELES - Viola Davis is set to portray Michelle Obama in a Showtime series under development about America's first ladies. Davis also is an executive producer on the project, which Showtime said ...
Aug 28, 2019
Bombers facing more adversity heading into showdown with Roughriders
Head coach Mike O'Shea and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers have more adversity to deal with. The West Division-leading Bombers (8-2) will open an important home-and-home series with the Saska...
Aug 28, 2019
Nishikori loses focus but not match to advance at US Open
NEW YORK - Kei Nishikori lost his focus. At least he didn't lose the match. The seventh seed from Japan dropped a set, blew a lead in another and let four match points slip away before finally downing...
Aug 28, 2019
Back at US Open, Serena beats Sharapova for 19th time in row
NEW YORK - Serena Williams was not about to let Maria Sharapova make a match of this. So facing a break point early in the second set, Williams conjured up a backhand passing shot so good, so powerful...
Aug 28, 2019
The unusual suspects: British Columbia's middle-class gang problem
SURREY, B.C. - At the end of a tranquil cul-de-sac in a pleasant neighbourhood, a tall stucco house overlooks a well-kept lawn and lush flowerbeds. The home is in the Metro Vancouver city of Surr...
Aug 28, 2019
Placido Domingo concert opening sports complex in Hungary
SZEGED, Hungary - Opera legend Placido Domingo was set to appear Wednesday at a concert in southern Hungary to inaugurate a sports and youth complex for a local Catholic diocese, continuing his calend...
Aug 28, 2019
Actor McConaughey named professor at University of Texas
AUSTIN, Texas - Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey will join the University of Texas as a professor who this fall will teach in the university's Department of Radio-Television-Film. McConaughey h...
Aug 28, 2019
Alberta's first geothermal power plant coming to M.D. of Greenview
Alberta's first commercial grade Geothermal facility is coming to the M.D. of Greenview.The project was given the green light to move forward as it was announced Friday in Nisku that a grant from the ...
Aug 28, 2019 Minister of Natural Resources Amarjeet Sohi announced the grant funding for the project Friday in Nisku (Photo: Facebook / Amarjeet Sohi)
Court orders women accused of defaming author to share emails, online posts
VANCOUVER - A B.C. Supreme Court judge has awarded author Steven Galloway access to emails between a woman who accused him of sexual assault and staff at the University of British Columbia in&nbs...
Aug 28, 2019