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Small plane with 5 people aboard makes emergency landing on southwest Florida interstate
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - A small airplane with five people aboard collided with a vehicle as it made an emergency landing on Interstate 75 in southwest Florida Friday afternoon, bringing traffic to a halt ...
Feb 09, 2024

Hitting frontside 540s at Calgary’s Snow Rodeo
Almost 50 of the world's best snowboarders will be shredding the halfpipe at Calgary's Snow Rodeo in the 2024 FIS Snowboard Halfpipe World Cup Feb 9-10.Officials with the Alberta government note, the ...
Feb 09, 2024

Sylvan Lake Ice Dragon Boats cancelled, Polar Dip postponed
After consulting with team and event organizers, officials with the Town of Sylvan Lake have come to the difficult decision to cancel the Ice Dragon Boat races and Polar Dip event for next weekend, Fe...
Feb 09, 2024

COC still looks to appeal Russian team figure-skating bronze despite ISU explanation
The Canadian Olympic Committee says it continues to believe Canada's figure skating team deserves the bronze medal from the 2022 Beijing Olympics, and a statement from the International Skating Union ...
Feb 09, 2024

Orange Door Campaign raises over $26,000 for Youth HQ's 49th Street Youth Shelter
Youth HQ has announced that their friends from Home Depot in Red Deer raised $26,386.00 during their Holiday Orange Door Campaign held this past December. Officials with Youth HQ say the Red Deer stor...
Feb 09, 2024

Analysts: Canada could see one-stop shop for sports streaming, but not in near future
While Canadian sports broadcasting powerbrokers have worked together on occasion in the past, it's unlikely they'd follow the path of their counterparts in the United States and team up again in the n...
Feb 09, 2024

Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii's Big Island; no tsunami expected
HONOLULU (AP) - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the world's largest active volcano on Friday - Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii - knocking items off shelves in nearby towns but not immediately ...
Feb 09, 2024

New payment model sees 16.5% jump in B.C. family doctors, but more needed: minister
VANCOUVER - Health Minister Adrian Dix says the number of family doctors in British Columbia is increasing, but there are still almost 900,000 people without a primary care provider. He says the New D...
Feb 09, 2024

Poll worker nun triggered some residents at Manitoba Indigenous seniors' home: report
WINNIPEG - The hiring of a nun to run a mobile voting poll at an Indigenous seniors' centre during Manitoba's provincial election did not violate any laws, an investigation by the province's elections...
Feb 09, 2024

Province aiming to help primary care providers support patients
Family doctors in Alberta will soon receive additional payments to help manage an increasing number of patients. Alberta's government says it is pulling out all the stops to stabilize, strengthen and ...
Feb 09, 2024