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Northwest Territories reinstates mask mandate over growing COVID-19 cases
YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories has issued its first territorywide mask mandate in the face of growing COVID-19 numbers. Chief public health officer Dr. Kami Kandola said masks will be mandato...
Aug 25, 2021

Lawyers allied with Trump penalized over Michigan lawsuit
DETROIT (AP) - Nine lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump face financial penalties and other sanctions after a judge Wednesday said they had abused the court system with a lawsuit that cha...
Aug 25, 2021

Blue Jays reinstate Soria from injured list, Biggio week to week with ligament sprain
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays reinstated reliever Joakim Soria from the 10-day injured list Wednesday and optioned fellow right-hander Connor Overton to triple-A Buffalo. Soria, acquired from the Ar...
Aug 25, 2021

Boil water advisory issued for Foremost
FOREMOST, AB - Alberta Health Services has issued a boil water advisory for the Village of Foremost as a precautionary measure. All residents and businesses are advised to bring water to a rolling boi...
Aug 25, 2021

Province records more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases, 62 in Medicine Hat
There are 533 active cases of COVID-19 in Medicine Hat on Wednesday and the province has topped 1,000 new daily cases for the first time since the end of the third wave.Medicine Hat has had 2,200 tota...
Aug 25, 2021

Man in prison for killing of woman in Edmonton hotel appeals conviction, sentence
EDMONTON - A former long-haul trucker from Ontario who is in an Alberta prison for killing a woman in an Edmonton hotel room a decade ago is appealing his conviction and sentence. Bradley Barton was s...
Aug 25, 2021

Montreal police urged to be vigilant after officers allegedly targeted by bullets
Montreal police officers are trained to be alert for danger, but after two officers were allegedly targeted by bullets earlier this week, members of the force are being urged to be extra careful, Insp...
Aug 25, 2021

Excitement before and after opening of new nature playground
MEDICINE HAT, AB - More than two years in the making, the nature playground in Kiwanis Central Park is an early hit with the neighbourhood."It's always packed and people were waiting for this to open,...
Aug 25, 2021

One presumed dead, one injured in collapse at B.C. construction site: RCMP
VANCOUVER - The RCMP say one person is believed to be dead and another is in hospital after part of a building collapsed in North Vancouver on Wednesday. Sgt. Peter DeVries says fire and rescue person...
Aug 25, 2021

Man gets 6 years in prison in Michigan governor kidnap plot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A man upset over state-ordered coronavirus restrictions was sentenced to just over six years in prison Wednesday for planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a sig...
Aug 25, 2021