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3rd Annual Last Minute Christmas Market
The 3rd Annual Last Minute Christmas Market will be held on December 14! Last minute shopper?? Don't you worry! Plaza 88 has you covered! With over 50 tables, you are sure to find something for everyo...
Nov 27, 2019

Melfort Trade Alliance hosting Christmas tour event
The sights, sounds, and smells of Christmas are being celebrated this Saturday by the Melfort Trade Alliance.Businesses and organizations are working together to provide wagon rides that will start at...
Nov 27, 2019 (Cam Lee/northeastNOW Staff)

Riders re-sign Loucheiz Purifoy through 2021
Facing a lengthy list of possible free agents, the Saskatchewan Roughriders have announced their first extension of the CFL off-season.Defensive back and returner Loucheiz Purifoy has signed an extens...
Nov 27, 2019 Loucheiz Purifoy (28). (submitted photo/Saskatchewan Roughriders)

Stabbed, headbutted, feces thrown; CUPE reports violence in Sask schools
Schools are a place to learn and grow, but they can also be violent for education support workers in Saskatchewan.CUPE did a confidential survey involving more than 1,000 education support workers, hi...
Nov 27, 2019 (file photo/CKOM News Staff)

Samuel Opoku, accused in series of Toronto feces assaults, due in court today
TORONTO - A man accused of tossing fecal matter on five people is due in a Toronto courtroom today. Samuel Opoku is charged with five counts each of assault with a weapon and mischief. The 23-year-old...
Nov 27, 2019

Edmonton Eskimos fire head coach Jason Maas after 8-10 regular season
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Eskimos fired Jason Maas on Wednesday, ending his four-year run as head coach of the CFL team. Maas guided the Eskimos to an 8-10 record this past season an...
Nov 27, 2019

Jimmy Carter out of hospital after treatment for brain bleed
ATLANTA - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has been released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after recovering from surgery to relieve pressure on his brain caused by bleeding from a fall. ...
Nov 27, 2019

US consumer spending up 0.3% in October but incomes are flat
WASHINGTON - Americans increased their spending in October at the fastest rate in three months even though income growth was essentially flat, its weakest showing in 13 months. The Commerce Department...
Nov 27, 2019

Cellphones, radio, TV stations to broadcast emergency alert system test today
OTTAWA - Wireless devices, radio and TV stations will issue emergency messages today, but there isn't anything to be alarmed about. The squawky signals from provincial and territorial emergency manage...
Nov 27, 2019

Judge to investigate Montreal archdiocese's handling of priest's sexual abuse
Montreal's archdiocese enlisted a former Quebec Superior Court justice on Monday to investigate the case of a priest found guilty of sexually abusing two boys. Pepita G. Capriolo will conduc...
Nov 27, 2019