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Tavares scores OT winner as Maple Leafs beat Golden Knights
TORONTO - John Tavares scored at 2:33 of overtime as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 2-1 on Thursday night. Auston Matthews also scored for Toronto (9-5-3). Frederik And...
Nov 07, 2019
Airline steps up to provide Calgary Zoo with bamboo for picky pandas
CALGARY - A culinary crisis has been avoided at the Calgary Zoo which was facing a bamboo shortage for its four giant pandas. The pandas, which staff admit are picky eaters, munch on about 1...
Nov 07, 2019
Google digitizes artworks in Puerto Rico for 1st time
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The 1953 painting by Rafael Tufio Figueroa features his mother with a red scarf on her head, a determined look on her face and heavy expression lines, a depiction of a working-...
Nov 07, 2019
Human rights ruling says Manitoba must offer gender-neutral birth certificates
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has been ordered to start offering non-binary sex designations on its birth certificates. A human rights adjudicator has also ordered the province to pay $50,00...
Nov 07, 2019
Gap CEO steps down amid slumping sales
NEW YORK - Gap's announced Thursday that CEO Art Peck is stepping down as the company struggles to turn around a long-standing sales slump. The San Francisco-based retailer also slashed its earnings o...
Nov 07, 2019
Hopes rise that lifting tariffs could allow US-China accord
BEIJING - The prospects for a preliminary breakthrough in the U.S.-China trade war improved Thursday after the two sides agreed to reduce some punitive tariffs on each other's goods, though the full e...
Nov 07, 2019
Sask. donors raise $750,000 in children's hospital radiothon
Broadcasters from across Saskatchewan, including the full team from the family of the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, helped raise a substantial sum of money for the new state-of-the-art children's faci...
Nov 07, 2019 On-air personalities of the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group across the province lent their voices to the cause at the new Jim Pattison Children's Hospital in Saskatoon. (Teena Monteleone/paNOW Staff)
Interior proposes coveted deal to ex-client of agency head
WASHINGTON - The Interior Department is proposing to award one of the first contracts for federal water in perpetuity to a powerful rural water district that had employed Secretary David Bernhardt as ...
Nov 07, 2019
Retail auction to determine Melfort, other liquor permits
Retail liquor store permit auctions will soon begin for several communities across the province, including Melfort.The Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority (SLGA) announced Thursday that the first...
Nov 07, 2019 (Mat Barrett/northeastNOW Staff)
Bittersweet Conservative post-election gathering set for Ottawa Wednesday
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer knows more Latin than most. And at this week's first Conservative caucus meeting following the Oct. 21 election, many will be listening for ho...
Nov 07, 2019