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Library offers tips to help children learn to love reading
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Medicine Hat Public Library says parents have a role to play to help their children develop a love of reading.Monday marks Family Literacy Day around the world, with families be...
Jan 27, 2020 Lauren Danroth reads to her daughter Sheriden at the Medicine Hat Public Library on Monday - Photo by Alex McCuaig
2 arrested in SC bar shooting that killed 2 and wounded 4
HARTSVILLE, S.C. - Police have arrested two suspects in a weekend shooting that killed two people and wounded several others at a South Carolina bar, authorities said. The suspects were taken into cus...
Jan 27, 2020
Brazil downpour displaces 30,000, bracing for more rain
RIO DE JANEIRO - Over 30,000 people have been displaced by heavy rains in southeast Brazil that also killed 54 people and left 18 missing. The storms in recent days caused floods and landslides, subme...
Jan 27, 2020
China virus outbreak rams global tourism, costing billions
Business around the world that have grown increasingly reliant on big-spending tourists from China are taking a heavy hit, with tens of millions of Chinese residents restricted from leaving their coun...
Jan 27, 2020
Regional landfill doubles waste volume, generates cash from out-of-town trash
Redcliff, AB - The Redcliff-Cypress Regional Landfill is busy these days as the facility has doubled its tonnage of waste intake over the past 12 months, but it's not due to locally generated garbage....
Jan 27, 2020
Lakers' next game postponed after Kobe Bryant's death
LOS ANGELES - The NBA has postponed the Los Angeles Lakers' next game against the Clippers on Tuesday night after the deaths of retired superstar Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others in a helico...
Jan 27, 2020
MHPSD switching to online registration from paper
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Parents no longer have to use a pen to sign their kids up for school in the Medicine Hat Public School Division.The division is making the switch from paper to online registration s...
Jan 27, 2020
At Sundance, Clinton warns of voter suppression in election
PARK CITY, Utah - Since losing the 2016 election to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has released a memoir about that defeat, launched a political action committee and penned another book about "gutsy wo...
Jan 27, 2020
RCMP intelligence official faces new charges in secrecy case
OTTAWA - The federal prosecution service says a senior RCMP official faces three new charges for alleged secrecy breaches. Cameron Jay Ortis, director general of the RCMP's National Intellig...
Jan 27, 2020
Dominic LeBlanc back in Commons for first time since cancer diagnosis
OTTAWA - Veteran Liberal MP and cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc took his front-bench seat in the House of Commons on Monday for the first time since he was diagnosed with a form of blood ca...
Jan 27, 2020