By Michael Casey The Associated Press Leave it to the great minds at MIT and Georgia Tech to figure out a way to read the pages of a book without actually opening it. A team of researchers from the two institutions pulled it off with a system they developed that […]
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The Canadian Press KAMLOOPS, B.C.—A British Columbia family’s difficult summer has been relieved by an unexpected lottery windfall. Sarah Ross of Lumby, B.C. won $1 million in Saturday’s Lotto 6/49 draw—a few months after her family lost their home to a fire in June. The 33-year-old mother of two said […]
Joey Payeur Nick Wepruk proudly held the championship trophy aloft after the Sight & Sound Wolves captured their first Rainy River District Fastball League title since 2011 by edging the defending champion Barwick Blue Knights 4-3 in the third-and-deciding game last night at the Rodrick and Telford Bruyere Ball Field […]
The Canadian Press CHURCHILL, Man.—A study suggests food from the land is not going to save polar bears. The study, published in the journal “Physiological and Biochemical Zoology,” was undertaken by the University of Alberta and the Manitoba and federal governments. Researcher Andrew Derocher, a biological sciences professor at the […]
Duane Hicks Tim Hortons’ customers will experience some disruption to their daily routine for the next two weeks. For the first time since it first opened on Sept. 1, 2003, the King’s Highway business is undergoing renovations. “It’s an inside/outside reno,” noted owner Gord McQuarrie “They’re refinishing the outside of […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Peter MacKay has decided against joining the Conservative leadership race. “After much soul-searching, advice from trusted friends, and weighing of the impact on my young family, I have decided not to seek the leadership of the party,” the former cabinet minister from Nova Scotia said in a […]
The Canadian Press VANCOUVER—The youngest royal will arrive in British Columbia later this month for her first international appearance alongside her brother and parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Princess Charlotte will be 16 months old when she and three-year-old Prince George begin a week-long trip starting Sept. 24 […]
The Canadian PressBob Weber The second ship from Sir John Franklin’s doomed 19th-century search for the Northwest Passage has been located—right where an Inuit hunter said it would be. “The ship is in remarkable condition,” Adrian Schimnowski of the Arctic Research Foundation, one of the groups involved in the search, […]
Staff Work on Colonization Road East will take about 10 days longer than expected, with the whole project now expected to be done the first week of October. Contractor Makkinga Contracting & Equipment Rentals currently is installing the storm sewer at the end of Fifth Street East and putting in […]
The Canadian PressMelissa Couto TORONTO—Roberto Osuna and Russell Martin both thought Steven Souza Jr.’s deep fly ball in the ninth inning was hit out of the park. Ezequiel Carrera thought his own an inning earlier would hook foul. Luckily for the Blue Jays, all three were wrong. Carrera hit a […]
The Associated PressJon Krawczynski CHASKA, Mn.—When Davis Love III and the U.S. Ryder Cup team come to Hazeltine at the end of the month, they’ll be looking to avoid an unprecedented fourth-straight defeat to the Europeans. The U.S. has spent two years planning and strategizing in hopes of turning the […]
By Tom Coyne The Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Democrats and Republicans are both to blame for the fighting that occurs when a president nominates someone to the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Monday. She told a crowd of about 7,100 people at the University of […]
