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North Vancouver police arrest volleyball coach for alleged sex assaults
NORTH VANCOUVER - A volleyball coach has been arrested by North Vancouver RCMP over what they say is an ongoing sexual assault investigation involving a youth. Police say they received a report on Dec...
Apr 10, 2025

Gardiner scores twice, Canada downs Finland 5-0 to start world hockey championship
ESK BUDJOVICE - Jennifer Gardiner scored twice and had an assist in her women's world hockey championship debut to lead Canada to a 5-0 win over Finland on Thursday. Marie-Philip Poulin and Ella Shelt...
Apr 10, 2025

Lions defensive lineman Covington pleasantly surprised by level of talent in CFL
HAMILTON - Christian Covington enters his second CFL season with renewed respect for the Canadian game. The six-foot-three, 285-pound defensive lineman signed with B.C. last May following nine NFL sea...
Apr 10, 2025

Prince Harry meets war victims in unannounced visit to Ukraine
LONDON (AP) - Prince Harry met with war victims on Thursday in an unannounced visit to Ukraine as part of his ongoing work with wounded veterans, a spokesperson said. Harry visited the Superhumans Cen...
Apr 10, 2025

Northern power outage affecting 12,000 customers
Update: By 2p.m. all powered been restored.----A large unplanned power outage is affecting parts of Northern Saskatchewan.A SaskPower spokesperson told larongeNOW the power outage affects 12,000 custo...
Apr 10, 2025

CUPE retracts statement on Northern Lights budget shortfall
The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) have retracted a statement suggesting there was to be upcoming layoffs and a large budget shortfall at the Northern Lights School Division. The media rele...
Apr 10, 2025
Sask. Government says 99% of its procurement comes from Canadian companies
The provincial government has crunched the numbers on procurement to determine what share of the goods and services it procures come from Saskatchewan and Canadian companies.The announcement comes aft...
Apr 10, 2025

Saskatchewan premier says MLA terrorist remark wrong and 'very, very inappropriate'
REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says one of his legislature members made inaccurate and "very, very inappropriate comments" by calling federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh a terrorist. But Moe say...
Apr 10, 2025

Emaarion Boyd steals 6 bases without a hit, 1st minor league player to do it since at least 2005
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Emaarion Boyd became the first minor league player in at least 20 years to steal six bases in a game without getting a hit when he pulled off the feat for High-A Beloit (Wisc...
Apr 10, 2025

Legault cites capacity amid outcry from Haitian community over asylum seeker comments
MONTREAL - Premier Franois Legault says Quebec doesn't have the capacity to take in more immigrants amid a surge in the number of asylum seekers arriving at the province's border with the United State...
Apr 10, 2025