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Placido Domingo concert opening sports complex in Hungary
SZEGED, Hungary - Opera legend Placido Domingo was set to appear Wednesday at a concert in southern Hungary to inaugurate a sports and youth complex for a local Catholic diocese, continuing his calend...
Aug 28, 2019
Actor McConaughey named professor at University of Texas
AUSTIN, Texas - Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey will join the University of Texas as a professor who this fall will teach in the university's Department of Radio-Television-Film. McConaughey h...
Aug 28, 2019
Majority of Alberta opioid overdoses related to fentanyl poisoning
EDMONTON -- A new report says more than 4,300 drug overdoses have been reversed with a 100-per-cent success rate through the province's supervised consumption sites.The report from the Alberta Communi...
Aug 28, 2019 Opioid refuse -- LLN
More than 600 students to receive backpacks through Tools for School program
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The local chapter of the United Way is thankful for the community's help to ensure students in Medicine Hat and the surrounding area are all ready for school next week.Throughout th...
Aug 28, 2019 A volunteer sorts through school supplies donated for the Tools for School program at the United Way offices on August 28. (Photo by Scoot Roblin)
Court orders women accused of defaming author to share emails, online posts
VANCOUVER - A B.C. Supreme Court judge has awarded author Steven Galloway access to emails between a woman who accused him of sexual assault and staff at the University of British Columbia in&nbs...
Aug 28, 2019
Provinces, territories to have input in future price of carbon tax, McKenna says
OTTAWA - Any decisions about future increases in the carbon tax would take into account the views of provinces and territories, the federal environment minister says, using language tha...
Aug 28, 2019
Drug Coalition trying to end addiction stigma with Overdose Awareness Day
Medicine Hat, AB - The Medicine Hat Drug Coalition is hosting it's second annual Overdose Awareness Day this Thursday downtown. "We want to bring the community together to support those who have lost ...
Aug 28, 2019 Purple ribbons have been placed around Medicine Hat for Overdose Awareness Day (Photo by Colton McKee)
Rattlers soccer teams using exhibition games as key tune up for ACAC season
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The countdown to opening kick-off is down to days for the Medicine Hat College Rattlers soccer teams and their new head coach.Robert Cavicchia has coached his first few games for th...
Aug 28, 2019 Photo courtesy of Scott Roblin
Draisaitl on Puljujarvi: 'It seems like he doesn't want to be on our team'
TORONTO - Leon Draisaitl says he would welcome disgruntled winger Jesse Puljujarvi back into the Edmonton Oilers' fold. Puljujarvi has made it clear he wants to be traded to another NHL team...
Aug 28, 2019
Florida nursing home employees charged in patient deaths
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Four employees of a Florida nursing home where 12 people died in sweltering heat after a hurricane cut power were charged Monday, at least three of them with aggravated manslau...
Aug 28, 2019