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Electric Zamboni part of PG push to be more environmentally friendly
PRINCE GEORGE - After purchasing an electric Zamboni back in January 2020, the ice resurfacing machine has just wrapped up its first winter with regular use after a pandemic delayed start.The electric...
Apr 21, 2022

Hataoka, Pedersen share early lead in LPGA Tour's LA Open
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Nasa Hataoka and Emily Kristine Pedersen shared the lead at 4-under 67 halfway through the first round Thursday in the LPGA Tour's DIO Implant LA Open. Hataoka closed with a birdie ...
Apr 21, 2022

Texas author who set series of novels along border dies
DALLAS (AP) - Romeo Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, an award-winning Texas author who began in the 1970s writing a series of novels that told the stories of people living in a fictional county along the Texas...
Apr 21, 2022

Arizona Supreme Court reinstates massive income tax cuts
PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the state's voters do not have the right to reject a massive income tax cut approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature and Gov, D...
Apr 21, 2022

Cantlay and Schauffele open with 59 to lead Zurich Classic
AVONDALE, La. (AP) - Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele are a good team even when they're playing for cash and not just a flag. Cantlay holed a 25-foot eagle putt early and chipped in from 40 feet ...
Apr 21, 2022

Oldest Texas death row inmate executed for officer’s death
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Texas' oldest death row inmate was executed Thursday for killing a Houston police officer during a traffic stop nearly 32 years ago. Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was executed at th...
Apr 21, 2022

B.C. sees increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations over past week
VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier John Horgan says he has "low energy" two weeks after testing positive for COVID-19. At a news conference on a separate issue Thursday, Horgan said his condition cou...
Apr 21, 2022

Tenn gov calls off execution, citing oversight in plan
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee's governor announced Thursday that he was calling off what was to have been the state's first execution since the start of the pandemic, granting a temporary reprieve...
Apr 21, 2022

NMP graduates 31 new doctors
PRINCE GEORGE - For the past fifteen years, graduates of the Northern Medical Program hands out a set of white coats and shingles and this year is no exception. Jessica Hatcher is born and raised in P...
Apr 21, 2022

Cold weather tough for bees
PRINCE GEORGE - Every year at this time, Barry Clark sets up in the parking lot of Princess Auto handing out tubes of bees. Each one contains about 6000 bees. These ones come from New Zealand, where t...
Apr 21, 2022