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More opportunities to help businesses survive the COVID-19 pandemic
Battlefords area businesses have some new opportunities to help them improve their bottom line during the COVID-19 pandemic.Battlefords Chamber of Commerce Chief Operating Officer Linda Machniak said ...
May 29, 2020
Partygoer at Missouri's Lake of Ozarks positive for COVID-19
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. - Health officials said Friday that they were seeking to "inform mass numbers of unknown people" after a person who attended crowded pool parties over Memorial Day weekend at Missouri...
May 29, 2020
Minneapolis protest misinformation stokes racial tensions
CHICAGO - The false social media posts started just hours after protesters first began chanting and carrying banners around the Minneapolis neighbourhood where George Floyd, an African American man, d...
May 29, 2020
Local NDP candidate hopes to see more accountability from province
While the province will be resuming the legislature next month, the Battlefords NDP candidate says the Saskatchewan Party government delayed too long before reopening after the COVID-19 closure.Amber ...
May 29, 2020
Oilers' Draisaitl reflects on Art Ross Trophy win: 'You dream of these things'
Leon Draisaitl had just wrapped up a phone call with Alphonso Davies. The German hockey star and the Canadian soccer sensation have a lot in common. A dominant centre for the Edmonton Oilers, Dra...
May 29, 2020
Kylie Jenner, Forbes spar over story on billionaire status
LOS ANGELES - Forbes magazine, which once declared Kylie Jenner a billionaire on its cover, says she no longer deserves the title, but Jenner is pushing back. Forbes said in a story posted Friday that...
May 29, 2020
'Never Have I Ever' brings rare voice, and a newcomer, to TV
LOS ANGELES - When Mindy Kaling was growing up in the Boston area, few classmates looked like her, and her television choices ranged from angsty white teenagers to funny white teenagers. It helps expl...
May 29, 2020
Luminaries Lost: A look at some of the artists lost to virus
A comedian whose faces made generations laugh. The cinematographer behind E.T's glowing finger and moonlight flight. A jazz guitarist of legendary poise and precision. In the third installment in a se...
May 29, 2020
Senate joins House of Commons in extending suspension until mid-June
OTTAWA - The Senate is staying closed for two more weeks, not planning to sit again until June 16. The upper chamber is following the lead of the House of Commons, which doesn't have a ...
May 29, 2020
AP sources: No consensus yet on NBA return-to-play plan
The NBA Board of Governors met again without a consensus opinion emerging on how many teams should be back on the floor for the planned late-July resumption of the pandemic-interrupted season, three p...
May 29, 2020