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Ex-ABA commish Mike Storen, dad of Hannah Storm, dies at 84
Mike Storen, a former ABA commissioner and multisport marketing whiz and the father of ESPN broadcaster Hannah Storm, died Thursday. He was 84. Storm said her father died at Emory University Hospital ...
May 07, 2020
Saskatchewan students will continue to learn from home
The provincial government has made it official; students will not be returning to the classroom this school year and in-class learning has been suspended until at least September.In an email to Regina...
May 07, 2020 Education Minister Gordon Wyant says he is pleased with how supplemental learning has been going. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
Lakeland Library Region seeing positive numbers for online use
Lakeland Library Region is seeing a healthy uptick in numbers for its online services and digital resource use while the library's branches remain closed to the public during the province's COVID-19 r...
May 07, 2020 The North Battleford Public Library is one of a number of branches in the Lakeland Library Region. (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Pandemic highlights existing barriers for those with communication disabilities
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted long-standing barriers preventing Canadians with communication disabilities from fully accessing the health-care system, according to advocates across the co...
May 07, 2020
Supreme Court to review Ontario ruling that jeopardized multiple verdicts
TORONTO - Canada's highest court agreed Thursday to review an Ontario ruling that could cause scores of criminal cases in that province to be thrown out over how changes ...
May 07, 2020
NBCHS Come Together first decade reunion moved to next year
For Patty Francescone who graduated North Battleford Comprehensive High School (NBCHS) in 1981, the days of her youth were a time for forming friendships and achieving new goals. She will join hundred...
May 07, 2020 Co-chairperson Bob Coates shown outside NBCHS. The Come Together NBCHS first decade reunion is now planned for July 30 to 31, 2021. (Submitted photo/Bob Coates)
Leafs forward Alexander Kerfoot looks back at up-and-down start in Toronto
TORONTO - Alexander Kerfoot has been waiting out the COVID-19 pandemic like most NHL players. There's been board games with family, backyard competition, workouts, Netflix, some reading and plent...
May 07, 2020
Texas salon owner jailed for defying governor's order freed
DALLAS - A Texas salon owner who was jailed for defying Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's public health orders walked out free to cheering supporters on Thursday, shortly after the governor weakened his m...
May 07, 2020
Presidential politics, sidelined by pandemic, poised for Trump-fuelled comeback
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's re-election efforts appear to be showing new signs of life despite lingering concerns about whether the accelerated reopening in parts of the United States could prompt a s...
May 07, 2020
Provincial COVID-19 total at 531, 19 new cases in northern half of Saskatchewan
All of the 19 new cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan are in the province's northern half, with 12 in the La Loche area outbreak.The new confirmed cases brings the provincial total to 531. Of that numbe...
May 07, 2020 Saskatchewan's Chief Medical Health Officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab. (Evan Radford/980)