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Vikings duo primed for U16 West Challenge championship game
A pair of North Battleford Comprehensive High School (NBCHS) Vikings are a game away from a gold medal. Levi Koenig and Max Gubbe are each in their first year competing with Team Saskatchewan at the 2...
Jul 05, 2022

Snoezelen Room Dedication at BTEC
Mona Leece, Executive Director of BTEC was very pleased to show off our new state of the art Snoezelen Room which we are naming "the Corey and Jodi Chmelnyk Snoezelen Room" in appreciation of all the ...
Jul 05, 2022

‘They will be welcome here’: 230 Ukrainian citizens arrive in Sask.
It was mostly women, children and the elderly who got off a long flight from Poland to Regina on Monday evening - they were people fleeing the war in Ukraine.A couple of people waved Ukrainian flags o...
Jul 05, 2022

Wimbledon quarterfinalist Kyrgios due in court in Australia
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) - Wimbledon quarterfinalist Nick Kyrgios is due in court back home in Australia next month, and a lawyer representing him said Tuesday the "precise nature of" the allegations "...
Jul 05, 2022

Wickenheiser among three Maple Leafs promoted to assistant general manager
TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs have promoted Hayley Wickenheiser, Ryan Hardy and Darryl Metcalf to assistant general manager and hired Curtis Sanford as a goaltending coach. Wickenheiser, a four-ti...
Jul 05, 2022

'A crazy experience': Flames' Mangiapane recalls NHL draft roller-coaster
MONTREAL - Plenty of young hockey players are set to live out childhood dreams this week. The NHL's first in-person draft since 2019 will see teenagers hear their names announced inside the cavernous ...
Jul 05, 2022

Large amount of boots found on road near Lloydminster
Maidstone RCMP are investigating a possible mass theft of footwear.The detachment received a report on June 19 that there were around 20-25 steel toe, Viking Mining boots on the side of the road near ...
Jul 05, 2022

De Grasse hopeful he'll be back in top form at the world championships post-COVID
TORONTO - A month before the world track and field championships, Canada's fastest man was winded just walking up the stairs in his home in Jacksonville, Fla. Andre De Grasse recently returned to full...
Jul 05, 2022

July 4 parade shooting leaves 6 dead, 30 hurt; man detained
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) - A shooter fired on an Independence Day parade from a rooftop in suburban Chicago, spraying the crowd with gunshots initially mistaken for fireworks before hundreds of panick...
Jul 05, 2022

NATO nations sign accession protocols for Sweden, Finland
BRUSSELS (AP) - The 30 NATO allies signed off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland on Tuesday, sending the membership bids of the two nations to the alliance capitals for legislative appr...
Jul 05, 2022