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Air Ronge invested $90K on Heritage Trail in 2024
A considerable amount of work went into Air Ronge's Heritage Trail in 2024 with even more improvements set to occur in 2025. Last year, village council spent nearly $90,000 on the trial with about $28...
Feb 11, 2025

Quebec government calls byelection in former Parti Québécois stronghold of Terrebonne
MONTREAL - The Quebec government has called a byelection in a riding northeast of Montreal to replace former economy minister Pierre Fitzgibbon. The Terrebonne riding had been held by Fitzgibbon since...
Feb 11, 2025

Trump ally Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case
NEW YORK (AP) - Steve Bannon pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a fraud charge related to duping donors who gave money to a private effort to build a wall along the U.S. southern border - a case the conserv...
Feb 11, 2025

Northern Exposure: After one-year absence, Nunavut returns to Tournament of Hearts
When Colin Hodgson attended his first meeting with members of the Nunavut curling team that will play at the Canadian women's championship, he asked everyone why they wanted to be involved. "The answe...
Feb 11, 2025

Police release identities of victims; update on Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation homicide investigation
The names of the homicide victims on Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation have been released in an effort to help further investigation.The decision was made by the Saskatchewan Coroner's Service, in conjun...
Feb 11, 2025

Salman Rushdie testifies against the man charged with stabbing him on stage in 2022
Author Salman Rushdie took the stand in a New York courtroom Tuesday to testify against the man charged with stabbing him in a frenzied knife attack. Hadi Matar, 27, is charged with attempted murder a...
Feb 11, 2025

Australia soccer star Sam Kerr found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment
LONDON (AP) - Sam Kerr, one of the world's top female soccer players, was found not guilty of the racially aggravated harassment of a police officer, Britain's Press Association reported Tuesday. Kerr...
Feb 11, 2025

Australia soccer star Sam Kerr found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment
LONDON (AP) - Sam Kerr, one of the world's top female soccer players, was found not guilty of the racially aggravated harassment of a police officer, Britain's Press Association reported Tuesday. Kerr...
Feb 11, 2025

27 religious groups sue Trump administration to protect houses of worship from immigration arrests
More than two-dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans - ranging from the Episcopal Church and the Union for Reform Judaism to the Mennonites and Unitarian Universalists - ...
Feb 11, 2025

Saint John, Calgary are the cities that would be hit hardest by U.S. tariffs: report
OTTAWA - Calgary, Saint John, N.B. and Windsor, Ont. are the Canadian cities that would be hit the hardest by U.S. tariffs, says new research by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Using Statistics Cana...
Feb 11, 2025