Author Archives: rdnews@socastdigital.com
Parent: Baseball coaches discussed plan to hurt my daughter
DURHAM, N.H. - A youth sports organization is investigating a man’s allegations that two baseball coaches talked about a plan to hurt his 11-year-old daughter, the only girl on her team, to forc...
Apr 11, 2018
Thousands vow to embrace Jersey Day: 'There's healing in the helping'
TORONTO - When office co-ordinator Jill Batten dons her 2010 Sidney Crosby Team Canada jersey on Thursday, she’ll be honouring more than just the 16 people who perished as a result of a Saskatch...
Apr 11, 2018
Ottawa, First Nations agree to work jointly on former army base land in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG - The federal government and Treaty 1 First Nations have agreed to work together on a deal over a southwest Winnipeg military base that has been idle for 14 years. A news release says the agr...
Apr 11, 2018
North Cottage School wins Best Buy tech grant
Red Deer's North Cottage School has 10,000 reasons to smile. The school was recently selected as the recipient of the Best Buy School Tech Grant worth $10,000. The money will go towards building an en...
Apr 11, 2018
Face of a killer? Police release new images in cold-case murders of B.C. couple
EVERETT, Wash. - Police in Washington state have released images of a man created through groundbreaking DNA technology that they say could help solve the murders of a young British Columbia couple mo...
Apr 11, 2018
Correction: Depression-Forgotten Black Workers story
DETROIT - In a story April 7 about black work camps during the Great Depression, The Associated Press, relying on information from the University of Michigan, erroneously reported that the photos the ...
Apr 11, 2018
Fed in March discussed 'slightly steeper' future rate hikes
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve officials signalled rising confidence last month that a strong economy will lift inflation closer to its 2 per cent target and that they may accelerate the Fed’s pac...
Apr 11, 2018
B.C.'s child watchdog quits after 14 months on job, heads back to New Brunswick
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s independent children’s advocate is quitting after 14 months on the job to return to his home province of New Brunswick. Bernard Richard, a former social worke...
Apr 11, 2018
Calgary truck company owner 'sorry' for hockey bus crash that killed 15
CALGARY - The owner of a trucking company involved in a horrific collision that killed 16 people on the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team bus says the tragedy has upended his life and he’s not...
Apr 11, 2018
Karl Subban preaches about potential at RDC Athletics Scholarship Breakfast
What's stopping you from reaching your full potential? The keynote speaker at the 15th annual RDC Kings and Queens Scholarship Breakfast asked this question of the 400 in attendance on Wednesday morni...
Apr 11, 2018