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Alysa Liu delivers the US its first women's figure skating world championship in nearly 2 decades March 28, 2025 - 9:29 PM

BOSTON (AP) — Alysa Liu skated around the ice in disbelief, her golden dress shimmering in the lights of TD Garden, and the appreciative roar from a sellout crowd reminded her why she had returned to the sport following a nearly two-year retirement.
US dancers Chock and Bates, Canadian's Gilles and Poirier building figure skating's best rivalry March 28, 2025 - 4:00 PM

BOSTON (AP) — The word “rivalry" tends to carry a combative connotation, so perhaps it's best to describe the relationship between American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates and their Canadian counterparts, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, as healthy competition.
Canada's Stellato-Dudek, Deschamps seventh after world figure skating short program March 26, 2025 - 8:35 PM

BOSTON - Canadian pair Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps have a steep hill to climb if they hope to repeat as world figure skating champions.
World figure skating championships pause to remember those who died in plane crash March 26, 2025 - 6:27 PM

BOSTON (AP) — Before the skaters in their sequins and brightly coloured costumes took the ice at the world figure skating championships on Wednesday night, a choir dressed all in black sang a solemn hymn for those who died in a plane crash on their way back from a camp for up-and-coming skaters this winter.
American figure skater Alysa Liu takes the lead on the opening night of the world championships March 26, 2025 - 2:33 PM

BOSTON (AP) — American figure skater Alysa Liu assumed the lead after the short program on the opening night of the world championships on Wednesday, proving that the Olympian is much farther along in her comeback from retirement than almost anyone thought.
Gilles, Poirier sticking to their plan with gold in sight at figure skating worlds March 25, 2025 - 3:42 PM

With the top of the podium closer than ever, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are keeping to the same tried and true script.
Stellato-Dudek, Deschamps look to reach mountain top again at figure skating worlds March 24, 2025 - 1:50 PM

Deanna Stellato-Dudek tackles each year like a new mountain to climb.
Oilers superstars McDavid, Draisaitl out at least a week; Skinner avoids injury scare March 21, 2025 - 1:15 PM

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers lost both a game and another superstar Thursday, falling 4-3 in overtime to the Winnipeg Jets after Connor McDavid left with a lower-body injury.
Figure skater Fournier Beaudry talks new partnership after Sorensen suspension March 04, 2025 - 2:41 PM

Laurence Fournier Beaudry didn't know what was next.
Avs captain Gabriel Landeskog about to miss 3rd straight season, with still no timeline for a return March 03, 2025 - 2:02 PM

DENVER (AP) — It’s becoming clearer and clearer that Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog may miss a third straight regular season.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the fourth week of March 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jone

$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

Okanagan’s first ‘net-zero’ home is insulated with hemp
In an effort to make construction more sustainable a Kelowna developer has built a home insulated with hemp. The 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 2,430 square foot home at 278 Summer Wood Drive in the Echo Ridge development in Kelowna meets the pro

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