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20th Annual Alice Hansen Memorial Poker Rally
The $60,000, 20th Annual Alice Hansen Memorial Poker Rally will be February 22 at Pinehouse Lake, SK.The Entry fee is $60 per hand .Prizes: 1st. $20,000 2nd $5,000 3rd. $3,000 4th. $2,000 5th. $1,000 ...
Feb 05, 2020

Local growers discuss best farming practices to avoid prevalent pathogens found in soil
The Top Notch Farming seminar held in Meadow Lake Tuesday was put on by SaskCanola in partnership SaskBarley, SaskPulse, Co-op Agro and representatives with the Ministry of Agriculture who met with gr...
Feb 05, 2020 (Nicole Reis/meadowlakeNOW Staff)

Green party's leadership race rules, entry fee has some candidates balking
OTTAWA - The Green party's leadership contest is getting off to a rough start with at least three people reconsidering a run after the party established a $50,000 entry fee and a secretive v...
Feb 05, 2020

'The Masked Singer' hopes to take advantage of rare edge
NEW YORK - Fox will find out soon whether "The Masked Singer" benefits from the best time slot in television. A new episode of the game, usually Fox's most popular prime-time program or close to it, a...
Feb 05, 2020

Avalanche in Turkey wipes out rescue team; 31 dead overall
ANKARA, Turkey - An avalanche slammed into a mountain road in eastern Turkey on Wednesday, wiping out a huge team of rescue workers sent to find people missing in an earlier avalanche. Officials said ...
Feb 05, 2020

Unknowns of the new virus make global quarantines a struggle
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Health authorities are scrambling to halt the spread of a new virus that has killed hundreds in China, restricting visitors from the country and confining thousands on crui...
Feb 05, 2020

Trump impeachment acquittal on track ahead of Senate vote
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is on the verge of acquittal by the Senate, an end to only the third presidential impeachment trial in American history but coming at the start of a tumultuous camp...
Feb 05, 2020

Pelosi shreds Trump's speech. Right there on the podium.
WASHINGTON - And then she tore up the speech. No sooner had President Donald Trump finished his State of the Union address than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped the paper it was printed on in two. Ri...
Feb 05, 2020

US trade deficit drops 1.7% last year to $616.8 billion
WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit fell for the first time in six years in 2019 as President Donald Trump hammered China with import taxes. The Commerce Department said Wednesday that the gap between...
Feb 05, 2020

Putin remains coy on future and Trump plans to run, and win; In The News for Feb. 5
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 5 ... What ...
Feb 05, 2020