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Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms contracts COVID-19
Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Monday that she had tested positive for COVID-19. "COVID-19 has literally hit home. I have had NO symptoms and have tested positive," Bottoms, a potential ...
Jul 06, 2020

NHL/NHLPA announce tentative agreements on return-to-play protocol, new CBA
The NHL and NHL Players' Association have taken a massive step towards resuming the pandemic-hit 2019-20 season later this summer - and securing labour peace for the foreseeable future....
Jul 06, 2020

Decisions pending around the new pool
PRINCE GEORGE - It was something the City had been waiting for, for years. And late last week, the federal government approved $10 million in funding for the replacement of the Four Seasons Leisure Po...
Jul 06, 2020

City sees gradual decrease in river levels
PRINCE GEORGE - Water levels at Paddlewheel Park have dropped considerably thanks to a much-needed break in precipitation. The City of Prince George had issued an evacuation alert for residents of Far...
Jul 06, 2020

'Divine event:' Surgeon who helped man after hike operates on him days later
CALGARY - A Saskatchewan man who had a heart attack after a hike in the Rocky Mountains says it was divine intervention that the same cardiac surgeon who helped resuscitate him near the trai...
Jul 06, 2020

10 taken to hospital following two-vehicle collision near Pine Centre Mall
PRINCE GEORGE - A two-vehicle collision slowed traffic near Pine Centre Mall early this afternoon.Prince George RCMP Cpl. Craig Douglass says at 1:45 p.m. Mounties received an abandoned 9-1-1 call nea...
Jul 06, 2020

31 new cases of COVID-19 in B.C. but none in Northern Health for close to a month
VICTORIA - There have been thirty-one new cases of COVID-19 in B.C. since Friday, though none in Northern Health.Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said there were nine new cases between Frida...
Jul 06, 2020

Manitoba's public health officer sees merit of Winnipeg CFL hub idea
WINNIPEG - The CFL still hasn't approached the Manitoba government about Winnipeg being a hub city for a potential 2020 season, but the province's chief public health officer thinks the plan coul...
Jul 06, 2020

Small business aid went beyond hard-hit companies, data show
WASHINGTON - The government on Monday identified roughly 650,000 mostly small businesses and nonprofits that received taxpayer money from a federal program that probably softened job losses from the c...
Jul 06, 2020

Trump lashes out at NASCAR, Wallace over flag and noose
WASHINGTON - NASCAR's layered relationship with President Donald Trump took a sharp turn Monday when Trump blasted the racing organization for banning the Confederate flag and wrongly accused the spor...
Jul 06, 2020