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Dayton Sutherland Closing In on Battle of the Rockies Title
Dayton Sutherland is one good run away from his second straight Battle of the Rockies title. The Grande Prairie driver put up a 12th place finish on Saturday night, to stretch his aggregate lead at th...
Aug 18, 2019
Canadian Tyler Mislawchuk wins World Triathlon Olympic test event
TOKYO - Tyler Mislawchuk became the first Canadian man to win a World Triathlon Series race when he claimed gold in an Olympic test event on Friday. The 23-year-old from Oak Bluff, Man....
Aug 18, 2019
Lights One Win Away From Westerns Final
Northern Lights U18 baseball team are one win away from a berth in the final of the Western AAA championships in Red Deer. After a 4-3 loss to Saskatoon on Friday, the Lights bounced back with a 4-1 w...
Aug 18, 2019 photo courtesy Northern Lights Baseball Facebook page
Police make arrest, Canadian 'shocked' after fiance's murder in New Zealand
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand police have charged a man with murder after a tourist was killed in a seemingly random attack on a van that sparked a large manhunt after the victim's Canadi...
Aug 18, 2019
Neudorf Keeps Busy During Productive Summer
It's been a busy and successful summer for a 16-year-old horsewoman from Grande Prairie.Peace Wapiti Academy student Jennifer Neudorf swept four youth categories and was named Derby Champion at the Na...
Aug 18, 2019 photo courtesy National Reining Horse Association Facebook page
Andrew Scheer calls on Liberal MPs to further probe SNC-Lavalin affair
OTTAWA - Federal ethics commissioner Mario Dion says he's willing to testify about his scathing report on Trudeau's handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair - if he's invited to do so by the ...
Aug 18, 2019
RCMP Musical Ride comes to Valleyview
Valleyview and Districts Agricultural Society will be hosting the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride next week. It will take place on Tuesday August 20 at the Valleyview & Districts Agricu...
Aug 18, 2019 RCMP riders during Canada Day celebration in Ottawa on July 1, 2007
Police seek to question man in NYC rice cooker bomb scare
NEW YORK - Three abandoned devices that looked like pressure cookers caused an evacuation of a major New York City subway station and closed off an intersection in another part of town Friday morning ...
Aug 18, 2019
Gibraltar rejects US pressure to hold Iranian oil tanker
MADRID - Authorities in Gibraltar say they are rejecting the United States' renewed request that the British overseas territory not release an Iranian supertanker. The vessel has been detained for ove...
Aug 18, 2019
French police suicide rate climbs, French govt is flummoxed
PARIS - Three riot police officers, a police commander, a police academy teacher - all are among eight French police officers who have killed themselves recently. That makes 64 so far this year - and ...
Aug 18, 2019