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New Michael Moore-backed doc tackles alternative energy
LOS ANGELES - What if alternative energy isn't all it's cracked up to be? That's the provocative question explored in the documentary "Planet of the Humans," which is backed and promoted by filmmaker ...
Aug 09, 2019
Hanus earns another Pan Am swimming medal for Canada with silver
LIMA, Peru - Danielle Hanus had a bounce-back performace on her second day in the pool at the Pan Am Games. Hanus won a silver medal on Wednesday in the women's 100-metre butterfly, a day after&n...
Aug 09, 2019
Dinner-concert fundraiser planned for September to benefit hospital, humanitarian effort
Those who love the golden oldies tunes will be in for a treat with an upcoming dinner-concert fundraiser.Organizers are planning an event called Rock And Rattle at the Alex Dillabough Centre in Battle...
Aug 09, 2019 Colin Baillargeon shown holding his son Jackson, right, as grandad Charles Baillargeon, left, looks on during their performance of Cat's in the Cradle the Aug. 4 show. A concert-dinner fundraiser is planned for Sept. 28. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Two Battlefords area boys heading to Western Canadian Baseball Championships
Two boys from the Battlefords area will be swinging for the fences later this month.That's as they are headed to the Western Canadian 15U Baseball Championships in Lloydminster from August 15 to 18.Le...
Aug 09, 2019 Cory and Levi with their provincial medals (supplied photo/Michelle Scherman)
Meadow Lake resident recalls spotting B.C. murder suspects, informing RCMP
As coroners in Manitoba perform autopsies on two bodies believed to be that of Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky, the resident who spotted them in Meadow Lake is now reflecting on the interaction.RCMP ...
Aug 09, 2019 Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky were both wanted on Canada-wide warrants. (supplied/RCMP)
Fred Light Museum offers family fun for all
There may have been a little bit of rain sprinkling through the morning Friday, but that didn't put a damper on some old-fashioned family fun in the community. The Fred Light Museum hosted its first-e...
Aug 09, 2019 A young boy hammers in a nail at the Fred Light Museum’s inaugural Family Fun Day (Martin Martinson/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Walmart pulls violent game displays but will still sell guns
NEW YORK - Walmart has ordered workers to remove video game signs and displays that depict violence from stores nationwide after 22 people died in a shooting at one of its Texas stores, but the big bo...
Aug 09, 2019
Man cooking in Walmart lot sets van on fire, killing girl
MINNEAPOLIS - A 70-year-old man camping in a Walmart parking lot put a hot cook stove in his van, causing it to catch fire and spread to another van, burning two young sisters and killing one of them,...
Aug 09, 2019
Virginia transgender bathroom case: Judge favours ex-student
NORFOLK, Va. - A federal judge in Virginia ruled Friday that a school board's transgender bathroom ban discriminated against a former student, Gavin Grimm. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Arenda Wri...
Aug 09, 2019
Police: El Paso shooting suspect said he targeted Mexicans
EL PASO, Texas - The man accused of carrying out last weekend's deadly mass shooting at a Walmart in the Texas border city of El Paso confessed to officers while he was surrendering and later explaine...
Aug 09, 2019