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Stanley Cup win by the Oilers would net Colorado sports bar owners nearly $600,000
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Oilers not only have the opportunity to bring the long-awaited Stanley Cup back to Canada, they also could bring a major financial windfall to two Colorado sports bar owners. An E...
Jun 07, 2024
New city funding means street performers festival will not have its first-ever deficit
The Grande Prairie International Street Performers Festival found itself in an unfamiliar position going into its 24th year in 2024.It was looking at its first-ever financial deficit before city counc...
Jun 07, 2024
Grande Prairie Pride Society celebrates Pride Month
Pride Month runs throughout June, meaning the Grande Prairie Pride Society is putting on multiple events. That included painting the Pride crosswalk. This year, for the first time the Pride Society pa...
Jun 07, 2024
Biden apologizes to Ukraine's Zelenskyy for monthslong holdup to weapons that let Russia make gains
PARIS (AP) - President Joe Biden on Friday for the first time publicly apologized to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a monthslong holdup in American military assistance that let Russia mak...
Jun 07, 2024
Yemen's Houthi rebels detain at least 9 UN staffers and others in sudden crackdown, officials say
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - At least nine Yemeni employees of United Nations agencies have been detained by Yemen's Houthi rebels under unclear circumstances, authorities said Friday, as the re...
Jun 07, 2024
Sunrise and Edmonton: Hockey cities with big malls meet up in Stanley Cup final
EDMONTON - The mayor of Sunrise, Fla., a city near the edge of the Everglades, home to the NHL Panthers and conspicuously named to avoid death, says it's not that different from Edmonton. They're two ...
Jun 07, 2024
A look at NHL final rival cities Edmonton and Sunrise, Fla.
The Edmonton Oilers are set to face the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup Final beginning Saturday. The Panthers host the first two games in the best-of-seven series in Sunrise, Fla. Here's a quick ...
Jun 07, 2024
Sunrise and Edmonton: Hockey cities with big malls meet up in Stanley Cup final
EDMONTON - The mayor of Sunrise, Fla., a city near the edge of the Everglades, home to the NHL Panthers and conspicuously named to avoid death, says it's not that different from Edmonton. They're two ...
Jun 07, 2024
A look at NHL final rival cities Edmonton and Sunrise, Fla.
The Edmonton Oilers are set to face the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup Final beginning Saturday. The Panthers host the first two games in the best-of-seven series in Sunrise, Fla. Here's a quick ...
Jun 07, 2024
Ibrahim Ali faces murder sentencing hearing at B.C. Supreme Court
VANCOUVER - A sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin this morning in Vancouver for Ibrahim Ali, who was convicted in December of the first-degree murder of a 13-year-old girl from Burnaby, B.C. Crow...
Jun 07, 2024