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In the Rings: Highlights and lowlights from a curling season to remember
Curling made some strides over the 2024-25 campaign yet also remained behind the times in other areas, leaving the Roaring Game in a peculiar spot entering the all-important Olympic season. Equipment ...
May 22, 2025

Evacuation order for East Trout Lake, dry conditions keep province at high alert for wildfires
With the weekend approaching, concerns for wildfires stay high in the province as the heat is expected to rise while the precipitation levels stay low. In the East Trout Lake resort area, about 165 ki...
May 22, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Shanahan out as Maple Leafs president after more post-season misery
TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs say they will not renew the contract of president and alternate governor Brendan Shanahan after the team was eliminated in the second round of the NHL playoffs by the...
May 22, 2025

Work continues as Star City School prepares for grade discontinuance
The North East School Division Board of Education has adopted the Star City School Transition Implementation Plan. The plan is part of the ongoing process to transition the Star City School from a K-1...
May 22, 2025

Florida court awards Mexican government massive civil judgment against former security chief
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A Florida court awarded the Mexican government a massive civil judgment Thursday against its former security chief who is now serving a lengthy prison sentence in the United States ...
May 22, 2025

No stranger to pressure, Gavin McKenna embraces Memorial Cup spotlight
Gavin McKenna is ready to step into the Memorial Cup spotlight - and he doesn't plan to blink. After all, the 17-year-old phenom is no stranger to wall-to-wall media coverage and sky-high expectations...
May 22, 2025

Wildfire deemed non-threatening to nearby Hall Lake: SPSA
The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) said the uncontained Pisew fire burning near Besnard Lake Road is not a threat to Hall Lake, about 105 kilometres southwest of La Ronge. The fire, which gr...
May 22, 2025

Former world junior hockey player tears up at ex-teammates' sexual assault trial
A former member of Canada's world junior hockey team briefly broke down in tears today at the sexual assault trial of five of his ex-teammates as he faced questions over texts he sent a week after the...
May 22, 2025

Canada's Luguentz Dort named to NBA's All-Defensive Team
Cleveland's Evan Mobley, the defensive player of the year this season, was also the top vote-getter for the NBA's All-Defensive team that was revealed on Thursday and includes Canadian Luguentz Dort. ...
May 22, 2025

Supreme Court of Canada to examine role of rape shield law in sexual services case
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will look at the application of the rape shield law in the case of two individuals accused of acting as pimps for a woman who worked from a house they rented. Sect...
May 22, 2025