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Noise not a problem on Sylvan Lake, says council
Noise levels on Sylvan Lake just isn't that big of an issue, Mayor Sean McIntyre says. This week, McIntyre and the rest of town council voted against giving a $2,000 grant to the Sylvan Lake Quiet Enj...
Feb 16, 2018
Activists sue Washington state for tougher climate policy
SEATTLE - Environmental activists are suing Washington state, the latest state-level effort to boost use of renewable energy. Thirteen children backed by the non-profit Our Children’s Trust file...
Feb 16, 2018
Yellowstone’s Volcano Could Wipe Us Out! What the Yell?!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Bubbling Yellowstone Volcano Yellowstone National Park has been struck by three massive volcanic blasts-2.1 million, 1.3 million and 640,000 years ago-...
Feb 16, 2018
A Pride of Lions Ate a Would-be Poacher
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [December 11-17th, 2018] A pride of lions get revenge on a poacher, a lonely frog looks for love, a dog returns home after 10 years, and an adven...
Feb 16, 2018
Alberta's Notley wants action on B.C. pipeline impasse by next week
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she wants progress soon in the impasse between her province and British Columbia over the Trans Mountain pipeline or she will ratchet up the pressure. ...
Feb 16, 2018
Team Alberta lead says 'Red Deer is Ready' for 2019 Games
With less than a year left until the start of the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, some of the most important work leading up to the big event is underway. Games officials have spent the last two...
Feb 16, 2018
ESPN radio station to take over broadcasts of UConn games
STORRS, Conn. - An ESPN radio station will take over broadcasts of University of Connecticut sports games next fall in a multimillion dollar deal that will dump another station that has been the voice...
Feb 16, 2018
Ottawa adds Aboriginal name to controversial Prince Edward Island park
CHARLOTTETOWN - A national park in Prince Edward Island that bears the name of a controversial British general will be renamed. Parks Canada confirmed Friday that it will add a Mi’kmaq name to t...
Feb 16, 2018
'The Translator Project': 13 Russians charged in U.S. election conspiracy
WASHINGTON - A dramatic new chapter opened Friday in the Russian election-meddling scandal as special counsel Robert Mueller described in unprecedented detail a Russian scheme to influence the 2016 Am...
Feb 16, 2018
Social conservatives find new voice in Ontario as Tory candidates duke it out
TORONTO - The emergence of a Tory leadership candidate committed to repealing Ontario’s sex-ed curriculum may yet see the Progressive Conservative party, which was pushed to the centre under for...
Feb 16, 2018