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Highest yielding crop from 2020 Coaldale Food Grains Harvest
COALDALE, AB. -- Last Friday`s (Aug 21) volunteer grain harvest outside of Coaldale was a very successful event, in spite of the COVID-19 curve ball.The Coaldale Food Grains Harvest, yielded 144 bushe...
Aug 24, 2020
National Guard called out after police shoot Black man
KENOSHA, Wis. - Wisconsin's governor summoned the National Guard for fear of another round of violent protests Monday after the police shooting of a Black man under murky circumstances turned Kenosha ...
Aug 24, 2020
Gun-control reforms passed last year might not be fully in place until 2022: memo
OTTAWA - An internal government note says several federal gun-control measures that received royal assent over a year ago, including expanded background checks, might not come into effect before 2022....
Aug 24, 2020
Corps: Alaska mine would have adverse impacts on salmon site
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A proposed gold and copper mine at the headwaters of the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery in Alaska would cause "unavoidable adverse impacts," the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer...
Aug 24, 2020
One year out from Games, Dixon says Paralympic athletes thrive in adversity
Stephanie Dixon had a simple message to Canada's Paralympic athletes one year out from the Tokyo Games: You've got this. Like the Olympics, the Paralympics were pushed back a year due to COVID-19...
Aug 24, 2020
How home prices in Lethbridge compare to other Canadian cities & provinces
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Did you know that the average real estate listing in Greater Vancouver was more than three times what you would pay in Lethbridge?The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) has updat...
Aug 24, 2020
Gun-control reforms passed last year might not be fully in place until 2022: memo
OTTAWA - An internal government note says several federal gun-control measures that received royal assent over a year ago, including expanded background checks, might not come into effect before ...
Aug 24, 2020
California high court rejects Scott Peterson's death penalty
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld the conviction but overturned the 2005 death sentence for Scott Peterson in the slaying of his pregnant wife, and said prosecutors ma...
Aug 24, 2020
Bank of Canada looks for broader input in updating inflation-target framework
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is turning to the public for input on its inflation-rate target that underlies any changes to the central bank's trend-setting interest rate. The bank had already planned o...
Aug 24, 2020
Evacuation alert lifted for Penticton, B.C., wildfire threat has 'subsided'
PENTICTON, B.C. - An evacuation alert has been lifted for nearly 3,700 properties in the path of a wildfire in British Columbia's south Okanagan region, while hundreds of others forced out of their ho...
Aug 24, 2020