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Province announces new model of funding for K-12 education
EDMONTON, AB - The Government of Alberta says their new model of funding for schools will be more streamlined and predictable."In the 2020-21 school year, every single division will see an increase in...
Feb 18, 2020 Lethbridge Collegiate Institute. (Lethbridge News Now)
Quebec boxing promoter faces hearing after Hells Angels seen at bout
MONTREAL - A well-known Quebec boxing promoter is defending himself before a tribunal against accusations stemming from two of his boxing cards, including claims he fixed a bout and hosted members of ...
Feb 18, 2020
Quebec boxing promoter faces hearing after Hells Angels seen at bout
MONTREAL - A well-known Quebec boxing promoter is defending himself before a tribunal against accusations stemming from two of his boxing cards, including claims he fixed a bout and hosted members of ...
Feb 18, 2020
Lethbridge locals competing in Curling Championships this weekend
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Two local curlers, Cody Smith and Krista Shortridge will be competing in the Provincial Mixed Doubles Curling Championships this weekend. The hometown curlers qualified for the Champi...
Feb 18, 2020 ATB Centre Curling Rink - LNN
Halifax couple thanks public a year after house fire claimed their 7 children
HALIFAX - The parents of seven children who died in a Halifax house fire a year ago are offering thanks to the public for the love and support they've received since the tragedy. Syrian refugees Ebrah...
Feb 18, 2020
Israeli Opera to host Placido Domingo despite protest
JERUSALEM - Despite objections from sexual abuse activists, the Israeli Opera will host a week-long singing competition organized by Spanish opera star Placido Domingo in Tel Aviv later this year. Dom...
Feb 18, 2020
Emergency Services Chief says cause of Pincher Creek Hotel fire ‘undetermined’
PINCHER CREEK, AB - Pincher Creek was rocked Saturday morning when a community landmark on Main Street was destroyed by fire.The King Edward Hotel collapsed after catching fire in the early hours of t...
Feb 18, 2020 Pincher Creek Hotel Fire -- Photo credit to Jody Robertson
Southern Alberta athletes in Zone 1 claim 36 medals at Winter Games
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Zone 1 had a strong showing in the 2020 Alberta Winter Games in Airdrie.The event wrapped up on Family Day Monday with more than 1,700 competitors across the province taking part in a...
Feb 18, 2020 (Photo supplied by Peter Fuzessery / Moonlight Canada)
Desmond inquiry looks at how Afghanistan veteran legally obtained firearm
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - The inquiry investigating why an Afghanistan war veteran killed his family and himself in 2017 has turned its attention to how the mentally ill former infantryman wa...
Feb 18, 2020
Trump commutes former Illinois Gov. Blagojevich's sentence
CHICAGO - President Donald Trump says he has commuted the 14-year prison sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Trump on Tuesday told reporters the former governor's sentence was "ridiculou...
Feb 18, 2020