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Author of flattering Trump biography gets pardon from Trump
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday granted a full pardon to Conrad Black, a former newspaper publisher who has written a flattering political biography of Trump. Black's media empire onc...
May 17, 2019
Veteran Samuel Asselin, Mooseheads beat Raiders to open Memorial Cup
HALIFAX - Samuel Asselin opened the scoring and set up another as the Halifax Mooseheads beat the Prince Albert Raiders 4-1 on Friday in the 2019 Memorial Cup opener. Alexis Gravel...
May 17, 2019
Trump pardons Conrad Black for 2007 fraud conviction in U.S.
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Conrad Black, a former newspaper publisher who has written a flattering political biography of Trump. In a release Wednesday, Whit...
May 17, 2019
Quesnel-born coach named to Canada WJC staff
Canada's 2020 World Junior Championship team will feature a coach born in Quesnel. Mitch Love, who currently coaches the WHL's Saskatoon Blades, has been named an assistant coach with the National Jun...
May 17, 2019
PG schools impress at track zones
The North-Central zone track meet was held at Masich Place Stadium this week. It featured roughly 260 student athletes at about 20 schools, ranging from 100 Mile House to Fort Nelson, and Burns Lake t...
May 17, 2019
Utility, regulatory failures led to biggest US gas leak
LOS ANGELES - A blowout at a Los Angeles natural gas well in 2015 that led to the largest-known release of methane in U.S. history was the result of a corroded pipe casing, safety failures by a utilit...
May 17, 2019
Texas officer fired after shooting black man in traffic stop
ARLINGTON, Texas - A Texas police officer has been fired after he was charged with criminally negligent homicide in the fatal shooting of a black man during a traffic stop last year. In a statement Fr...
May 17, 2019
Koepka shatters 36-hole record and builds 7-shot lead at PGA
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. - What felt like a battle for Brooks Koepka looked like a runaway Friday in the PGA Championship. Koepka backed up his record-tying 63 with a round that put him in a league of his ow...
May 17, 2019
5 things you need to know: Friday, May 17
MLA Shirley Bond introduces bill to bring more AEDs to the city:MLA Shirley Bond introduced her first private members bill-The Defibrillator Public Access Act.Over 40,000 Canadians go into cardiac arr...
May 17, 2019
Quesnel Endorses Safer Quesnel program
QUESNEL - The opioid crisis is not just a Big City issue. In fact, the City of Quesnel has seen a spike in criminal activity, especially in the downtown. "Like most communities that are dealing with h...
May 17, 2019 Downtown Quesnel