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Local golfers competing in national tournaments
A pair of central Alberta golfers are competing in some high profile tournaments this week.Lynn Kuehn of the Lacombe Golf and Country Club competed at the Canadian Women's Mid-Amateur and Senior Champ...
Aug 20, 2019

Fireworks bylaw passes first reading
The "free-for-all" when it comes to fireworks in Red Deer is set to come to an end. City Council gave first reading to the new Fireworks Bylaw on Monday. It comes as Red Deer has been without a munici...
Aug 20, 2019

Federal and provincial leaders march together in Montreal's Pride parade
MONTREAL - A jubilant, rainbow-hued crowd lined the streets of Montreal on Sunday as federal and provincial political rivals set their differences aside to march together in the city's annual Pri...
Aug 20, 2019

Earth's future in being written in fast-melting Greenland
HELHEIM GLACIER, Greenland - Greenland is where Earth's refrigerator door is left open, where glaciers dwindle and seas begin to rise. Scientists are hard at work there, trying to understand the alarm...
Aug 20, 2019

Italian PM Conte to resign after League party pulls backing
ROME - Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte has told senators he is handing in his resignation because his right-wing coalition partner, the League party led by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, has decided...
Aug 20, 2019

Innisfail water skier earns gold with Team Canada at World Championships
Central Alberta water skier Dorien Llewellyn is celebrating another gold medal win this summer.The Innisfail native and his Team Canada teammates earned an Overall Team gold at the 2019 IWWF World Wat...
Aug 20, 2019 Dorien Llewellyn of Innisfail (third from right) celebrates an Overall Team gold medal win at the 2019 IWWF World Waterski Championships held in Malaysia Aug. 13-18.

Iranian tanker sought by US heads to unknown destination
GIBRALTAR - An Iranian supertanker hauling $130 million worth of light crude oil that the U.S. suspects to be tied to a sanctioned organization lifted its anchor and begun moving away from Gibraltar l...
Aug 20, 2019

Aaron Best scores 20 points in Canada's 122-88 basketball rout of New Zealand
SYDNEY, Australia - Aaron Best scored 20 points while Andrew Nembhard added 17 as Canada's men's basketball team trounced the New Zealand Tall Blacks 122-88 in a pre-FIBA World Cup exhibition game Tue...
Aug 20, 2019

Status hearing set for civil lawsuit against Jussie Smollett
CHICAGO - A hearing is set in the city of Chicago's effort to recover costs from actor Jussie Smollett after police said his claims of a racist and anti-gay attack were phoney and staged. The status h...
Aug 20, 2019

Police keep low profile at huge, peaceful Hong Kong protest
Hong Kong streets were turned into rivers of umbrellas on Sunday as hundreds of thousands of people marched through heavy rain down a major road in the Chinese territory, where massive pro-democracy d...
Aug 20, 2019