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Navigators announce newest recruit
Despite the sun shining and the ice out of many rinks in the Peace Region the teams in the North West Junior Hockey League continue to gear up for next season.Five of the six teams in the league have ...
Jul 9, 2019 (photo credit to the North Peace Navigators)
Construction zone speed this month's focus for Enforcement Services
July is construction zone road safety month for the Selected Traffic Enforcement Program, also known as STEP.Enforcement Services are using this month to remind drivers to use extra caution when drivi...
Jul 9, 2019
Afghan officials say car bomb kills 12, wounds scores
KABUL - The Taliban carried out a devastating suicide car bombing in central Afghanistan Sunday that killed 12 people and wounded over 150 others, said Afghan officials. The attack came as an all-Afgh...
Jul 9, 2019
US bomb from WWII defused in Germany after mass evacuation
FRANKFURT - A 500-kilo (1,100-pound) World War II bomb was defused near the Frankfurt headquarters of the European Central Bank hours after thousands of people were evacuated from the surrounding dist...
Jul 9, 2019
UK ambassador called Trump administration 'clumsy and inept'
LONDON - Britain's ambassador to the United States described the Trump administration as "diplomatically clumsy and inept" and said he doubted it would become "substantially more normal," according to...
Jul 9, 2019
Conservative party wins Greek election, ousts left-wing PM
ATHENS, Greece - Conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis comfortably won Greece's parliamentary elections Sunday, delivering a stinging blow to leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after a...
Jul 9, 2019
Tens of thousands in Hong Kong take message to mainlanders
HONG KONG - Tens of thousands of people, many wearing black shirts and some carrying British colonial-era flags, marched in Hong Kong on Sunday, targeting a mainland Chinese audience as a month-old pr...
Jul 9, 2019
In the news today, July 9
Five stories in the news for Tuesday, July 9 --- P.E.I., QUEBEC INTERVENE IN CARBON-TAX CASE Prince Edward Island and Quebec have joined as interveners in Saskatchewan's legal...
Jul 9, 2019
Amy McGrath to run for Mitch McConnell's US Senate seat
WASHINGTON - Amy McGrath, a Marine combat aviator who narrowly lost a House race to an incumbent Republican in Kentucky, has set her sights on an even more formidable target: Senate Majority Leader Mi...
Jul 9, 2019
'Back to zero:' Canada's premiers gather in Saskatoon, but none are women
SASKATOON - Canada's 13 provincial and territorial leaders are in Saskatchewan this week, but for the first time in years, the annual gathering won't have women at the table. "Symbolically, it's very ...
Jul 9, 2019