Author Archives: Wordpress Admin User

NASHVILLE - Olympic figure skating champion and commentator Scott Hamilton has been diagnosed with a third brain tumour. People magazine reports Hamilton has been diagnosed with a benign pituitary tum...

ALBERTA – After being shut down for a week by snow and frost, the southern Alberta sugar beet harvest is back on in full force. “When we are harvesting beets we really need to be cognizant...

LETHBRIDGE – Along with falling leaves and closing baseball season, fire protection maintenance is another fall and winter staple. Mark Hoveling, Lethbridge fire prevention officer, said that ap...

MEDICINE HAT - Voters go to the polls in a sprawling riding in southern Alberta today that hasn’t elected a Liberal MP since 1968. The byelection in the Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner riding calle...

SAN DIEGO - President Barack Obama is stepping up the pace of his campaign to boost Hillary Clinton as his successor while pushing as well for Democrats to retake the Senate, visiting tightly conteste...

EDMONTON - Green energy groups have joined an environmental think tank in calling on the Alberta government to legislate firm targets for renewable power. The Pembina Institute and a number of green e...

PENNSVILLE TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Police say a pot advocacy company’s RV carrying marijuana-laced candy burst into flames on a bridge that connects New Jersey and Delaware, causing lane closures and t...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Tom Hayden was long past his heyday of political rebellion and the Chicago 7 trial when he died on Sunday at age 76. But in American culture, he remained an enduring symbol of a...

PHILADELPHIA - An animal rescue group says a barking dog alerted neighbours to a first-floor blaze at a Philadelphia home where the dog and its owner were later found unconscious inside. The Red Paw E...

OTTAWA - International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland came out swinging against her domestic political opponents Monday as she ratcheted up pressure on European lawmakers to twist the arm of the lon...