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Canada to ratify new NAFTA next week following U.S. Senate approval: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will move next week to formally approve North America's new, long-delayed free trade pact. Trudeau says the government will introduce a way...
Jan 21, 2020
Extreme cold hoped to have helped in fight against mountain pine beetle
Albertans may have survived last week's extreme cold snap, but experts are hoping mountain pine beetles did not.Temperatures in Jasper, Hinton and Sundre, key battlegrounds in the fight against pine b...
Jan 21, 2020
Paris couture climbs Mount Olympus, plumbs marine depths
PARIS - Female empowerment, controversies about race, and designs that plunged to the depths of the seas then climbed Mount Olympus were among themes to grace Paris Couture Week on its drama-filled fi...
Jan 21, 2020
Trump impeachment trial to begin with rules fight, long days
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's impeachment trial is set to unfold at the Capitol, a contentious proceeding over whether to remove him from office for pressuring Ukraine to investigate his Democ...
Jan 21, 2020
As virus spreads, anxiety rises in China and overseas
WUHAN, China - Face masks sold out and temperature checks at airports and train stations became the new norm as China strove Tuesday to control the outbreak of a new virus that has reached four other ...
Jan 21, 2020
Trump lauds US economy in Davos, says little on climate woes
DAVOS, Switzerland - President Donald Trump boasted Tuesday that he's led a "spectacular" turnaround of the U.S. economy and urged the world to invest in America, but had little to say about climate c...
Jan 21, 2020
Thunberg slams Davos elites on climate as Trump takes stage
DAVOS, Switzerland - Young climate activists including Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg told business and political elites gathered Tuesday at the World Economic Forum that they aren't doing enough to ...
Jan 21, 2020
Winfrey chooses the novel "American Dirt" for her book club
NEW YORK - Jeanine Cummins' "American Dirt," one of the year's most anticipated and debated novels, is Oprah Winfrey's new pick for her book club. "American Dirt," published Tuesday, tells of a bookst...
Jan 21, 2020
Bridge work starts Tuesday on Range Road 65
The County of Grande Prairie is beginning bridge maintenance work on Range Road 65 Tuesday morning between Township Roads 722 and 724, just east of Bear Lake.Traffic will need to detour using Range Ro...
Jan 21, 2020 The bridge which crosses Bear Creek will be closed until early March (Photo: County of Grande Prairie)
Pitt, Dern, 'Fleabag' win at Screen Actors Guild Awards
Brad Pitt, Laura Dern and "Fleabag" took home awards in the early going at the 26th Screen Actors Guild on Sunday. In an awards season with plenty of question marks, little has been more certain than ...
Jan 21, 2020