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Cubs acquire rights to forward Bast, add new equipment manager
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Some added firepower is joining the Medicine Hat Cubs ranks, as the team has brought forward Ryley Bast into the fold.The Cubs announced on Thursday they had acquired the rights to ...
Aug 17, 2019 Photo courtesy of Edson Aeros
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson comes out as gay after 40 years
OTTAWA - After 40 years, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has come out as gay. In a column published in the Ottawa Citizen on Saturday, Watson writes that it was a "mistake" not coming out ...
Aug 17, 2019
The sky is the limit to souping up your hotrod at Cars and Guitars
Medicine Hat, AB - The gates are open at the Canalta Centre's Cars and Guitars with a blinding array of chrome-laden, Detroit steel made cars, station wagons, vans and trucks on display looking to wow...
Aug 17, 2019 Photo by Alex McCuaig - A '68 Ford Falcon on display at the Cars and Guitars show at the Canalta Centre.
Lakers' Cousins tears ACL in left knee, awaiting surgery
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - DeMarcus Cousins is facing rehab from another major injury, and the Los Angeles Lakers have endured their first big problem of a season with championship expectations. Cousins was...
Aug 17, 2019
Okotoks Dawgs capture first WCBL championship in a decade
OKOTOKS, AB - It was a championship a decade in the making, as the Okotoks Dawgs were crowned kings of the Western Canadian Baseball League on Friday night.The Dawgs erased years of playoff disappoint...
Aug 17, 2019 Photo courtesy of AB Dugout Stories / Twitter
Liverpool wins again despite Adrian mistake; Pukki hat trick
An embarrassing mistake by goalkeeper Adrian failed to stop Liverpool racking up a second straight win to open the Premier League, and Norwich hat-trick star Teemu Pukki enhanced his reputation as a p...
Aug 17, 2019
Northerners applaud funding for long-awaited road through Arctic tundra
Two federal announcements this week are expected to kick-start a long-awaited road into the heart of the Canadian Arctic that would lower grocery costs for northern families and unlock billions o...
Aug 17, 2019
Canadian Crop Hail Association receives more than 10,000 damage claims this year
Grande Prairie, AB - The Canadian Crop Hail Association says more than 10-thousand damage claims have been received by its member companies so far this year.It says at the mid-point of the year, Saska...
Aug 17, 2019
Red Deer man convicted in fatal crash to be sentenced next month
Red Deer, AB - An apology in Red Deer Court of Queen's Bench Thursday from a young man convicted in a fatal crash that killed two teens on Canada Day 2016.Dylan James Beauclair, 21, of Red Deer, told ...
Aug 17, 2019 Red Deer Courthouse
Sea-to-Sky Gondola in British Columbia likely out of commission until 2020
SQUAMISH, B.C. - The operators of the Sea-to-Sky Gondola say the popular tourist attraction near Squamish, B.C., likely won't reopen until early next spring. In a message on the company...
Aug 17, 2019