Brandon News

He's always got a smile on his face, a step in his walk and a story to tell. That's John Urquhart, a man comfortable with who he is and who enjoys life for what it is.

Increasing competition will drive down cellphone rates by more than 30 per cent in Canada over the next three to five years -- and consumers shouldn't lock into any new service contracts in the meantime, an industry analyst said Monday.

His fee is $250. An 8-year-old Irish-bred, Billy Allen won or placed in 29 of 64 races and earned $427,645. He won five group I stakes in Serbia, and also was a stakes winner in France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and the United States, where he captured two added-money events at Turf Paradise.

James Ehnes coming to Victoria to teach and perform One of the world's most respected classical musicians will sit down with a group of local music students for a one-on-one lesson.

Drugs, cash and gang paraphernalia were seized in a series of raids in Manitoba and B.C. on Wednesday, police said.

CFB SHILO, Man. a ' To Canadian Forces Maj. Jay Adair, the best place to watch the upcoming Olympics is a tent in the mountains that surround Whistler, B.C. a ' and that's not just because he'll be there.

The Minot State University fastpitch softball and volleyball programs landed a two-sport star by signing Jen Dixon of Vincent Massey High School of Brandon, Man., the school announced Tuesday.

The Hurleyville Taxi and its two Tamworth hogs, Rusty and Red, are quite famous around these parts.

War may be hell, but it's been good for science and medicine. Doctors working in Afghanistan say the catastrophic injuries they're seeing from clashes between coalition and insurgent forces have been advancing the study of trauma treatment and the little-understood effects of blast injuries.

DICKINSON POLICE LT. ROD BANYAI SAYS THERE WERE NO SIGNS POSTED ON THE LAND TELLING PEOPLE TO STAY OUT.

Final autopsy results show that three college softball players who drowned when their sport utility vehicle went into a livestock pond in southwestern North Dakota had not been drinking or using drugs.

HL:Saskatoon scores three goals on first four shots to edge Wheat Kings 4-3@ BRANDON, Man.

Opposition politicians and the media may be hammering governments for their handling of the H1N1 situation, but a new poll suggests Canadians themselves feel their governments are doing an OK job.

Jacob Brown grew up hearing stories about his great-grandfather, and maybe that explains the connection.

More than 1,000 people filled a church yesterday to say good-bye to a young Manitoba woman who drowned in a North Dakota pond while she was out stargazing with friends.

ERROR: Macro topNav is missing! cp_cpVideoArt.pbs Video Funeral for young softball star Steve Lambert November 9, 2009 BRANDON, Man.

In this undated photo taken from the Dickinson State University athletics department web site, missing student Ashley Neufeld, 21, of Brandon, Manitoba in Canada is shown.

T hree girls were trapped in an SUV that crashed into a pond, and they died. If your car crashed into water, would you know what to do? When we heard about the three North Dakota softball players who were found dead inside a Jeep at the bottom of a rural pond, we were devastated.

Authorities say preliminary autopsy results show drowning as the cause of death for three North Dakota college softball players found dead inside a sport utility vehicle that sunk in a rural farm pond.

Dickinson State University officials retired the numbers of three college softball players at a packed memorial Thursday, two days after the women were found dead in their sunken vehicle in a livestock pond.