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Brandon Sun By: The Brandon Sun Save to Read Later Taylor Goodon is one of 10 people who recently received the 2021 3M National Student Fellowship Award, making her the first Brandon University student to achieve this status. Advertisement Taylor Goodon is one of 10 people who recently received the 2021 3M National Student Fellowship Award, making her the first Brandon University student to achieve this status. As a result, the third-year s...

COVID-19 is causing widespread devastation throughout the world. The American Indian/Alaskan Native population is being hit especially hard, facing both economic disparities and some of the poorest health outcomes. Moreover, the mortality rate is higher among the Native population, primarily due to a lack of resources and limited access to healthcare. Inadequate public health infrastructure, limited medical resources, and high rates of poverty are contributing factors to the high rates of infec...

Conglomerate boulder on hilltop Just about anywhere you look in the valley bottom of the Crowsnest Pass you will find large errant boulders laying about. They have been left, for the most part, where they first landed but sometimes they get shoved off to the side or used for obstructions to keep red necks off of non-motorized trails. There is a remarkable collection of them scattered about in the bush around here, in some of the most unlikely places and they are often visible on the hillsides a...

Article content Tomorrow — April 29 — marks the 118th anniversary of the Frank Slide — the deadliest rockslide disaster Canada ever experienced. At 4:10 in the morning of April 29, 1903, a huge slab of Turtle Mountain — known as “the mountain that moves” by Indigenous peoples — came crashing down into the Crowsnest Pass and town of Frank. It’s estimated more than 82 million tonnes of limestone sheered itself off the mountain, taking the lives of 72 known ...

(RCMP Manitoba/Supplied) Mounties found more than they bargained for when attempting to recover a stolen SUV. Overnight Tuesday, the Turtle Mountain RCMP detachment received a report of suspects entering a Rock Lake garage, stealing a white SUV, and fleeing. While driving to the R.M. of Argyle location, they were alerted to a second robbery of a similar nature in the area. The call told them another garage nearby had been entered by suspects who stole an all-terrain vehicle. When they...

Active COVID-19 case total spikes Posted: Advertisement The province recorded 529 new cases of COVID-19 during the weekend alongside three virus-related deaths. Of new cases, 59 were in Prairie Mountain Health, which joins the balance of the province in ushering in the third wave of the virus with spiking numbers. The Westman-based health region recorded 166 active cases Sunday, which is the highest it has been since mid-December, although it cam...

  WINNIPEG -- Turtle Mountain RCMP arrested and charged five males after tracking a stolen vehicle in southwest Manitoba last Wednesday. On April 21 at around 2:00 a.m., officers responded to two separate reports of theft in the RM of Argyle. In both instances, suspects entered a garage and fled in stolen vehicles. RCMP’s Police Dog Services searched the area, but no suspects were located. RCMP said they located one of the stolen vehicles by utilizing its built-in tracking system later t...

Unique art, activities set for Prairie Village Museum’s season opening By Sue Sitter - | Apr 24, 2021 Sue Sitter/PCT A piece from Shane Balkowitsch’s Northern Plains Native American Wet Plate Retrospective hangs in the gallery at the Prairie Village Museum in Rugby. Art celebrating North Dakota’s Native American culture will be on display to welcome visitors to the Prairie Village Museum’s opening day May 1 at 9 a.m. Photographs created by North Dakota artist Shane Balkowitsch using a...

JAMESTOWN, ND. (NewsDakota.com) – The Blue Jays softball team dominated in WDA play once again on Friday as Jamestown defeated Turtle Mountain 21-1 in both games. The offense was hot from the start for Jamestown as the Jays put up 11 runs in the first inning behind two RBIs from both Katie Trumbauer and Ella Roaldson. The senior Roaldson totaled five RBIs in game one and had a three run blast in the bottom of the second inning. Marin Rassmussen drove in two runs and went 2-for-3 with two walk...

BISMARCK, ND. (NewsDakota.com) – The Jamestown Blue Jays improved to 3-1 in WDA play on Thursday night in Bismarck as they split the doubleheader with Century, winning game one 11-1 before dropping the second game of the doubleheader 9-5. Jamestown’s bats woke up in the fourth and fifth innings in game one against the Patriots by scoring eight runs in those two innings to take the lead in game one. Ella Roaldson had a big day at the plate, going 4-for-5 with three runs driven in and a doubl...