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Coast Guard fines owner $13,500 after failure to remove 'hazardous' vessel
GOLD RIVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - A British Columbia boat owner has been fined $13,500 after failing to remove the partially sunken vessel from a bay along the coast of Vancouver Island. Fisheries and Oc...
Jul 29, 2024
Wild sign NHL rookie of the year runner-up Brock Faber to 8-year, $68 million contract extension
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota Wild general manager Bill Guerin saw more than enough potential in Brock Faber's rookie season to sign the defenseman to an eight-year, $68 million contract extension ...
Jul 29, 2024
Two dead in crash of 'homebuilt amphibious' plane near Merritt, B.C.
MERRITT, BRITISH COLUMBIA - Police say two people are dead after an amateur-built plane crashed north of the Merritt, B.C. airport, about 270 kilometres northeast of Vancouver. Merritt RCMP say emerge...
Jul 29, 2024
Two dead in crash of 'homebuilt amphibious' plane near Merritt, B.C.
MERRITT, BRITISH COLUMBIA - Police say two people are dead after an amateur-built plane crashed north of the Merritt, B.C. airport, about 270 kilometres northeast of Vancouver. Merritt RCMP say emerge...
Jul 29, 2024
Bears great Steve McMichael gets his Hall of Fame moment as he battles ALS
CHICAGO (AP) - Steve McMichael always had that big and boisterous persona and a willingness to say whatever was on his mind, so it's no stretch to think the Chicago Bears great's Pro Football Hall of ...
Jul 29, 2024
Province funds battery research centre at University of B.C.
KELOWNA, B.C. - The University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus is set to receive a $2 million investment by the province to start a battery innovation centre. The Ministry of Energy, Mines and L...
Jul 29, 2024
Canada urges Venezuela to detail election results, Freeland cites 'serious concerns'
OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada has "serious concerns" about Sunday's election results in Venezuela. Opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez and incumbent Nicolas Maduro have b...
Jul 29, 2024
Longtime Canadian hockey executive Murray Costello dead at age 90
CALGARY - Longtime hockey executive Murray Costello has died. He was 90. Hockey Canada said in a statement Costello, who led both that organization and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association for two ...
Jul 29, 2024
Judo champ Christa Deguchi claims Canada's first gold of Paris Games
PARIS - It was a golden day for Canada on the judo mat. Christa Deguchi captured the country's first gold medal of the Paris Olympics with a victory over South Korea's Huh Mimi in the under-57 kilogra...
Jul 29, 2024
Hall of Famer Julius Peppers drew motivation from working hot summers in North Carolina
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Julius Peppers remembers the long, grueling dawn-until-dusk summer days he spent working in the cotton and cucumbers fields of North Carolina's Nash County and dealing with the ...
Jul 29, 2024