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Luka Doncic scored 36 points as the in-form Los Angeles Lakers powered to their sixth straight victory with a 100-92 defeat of the Houston Rockets on Monday.
March 17, 2026
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Bangladeshi migrant Ahmad Ali, 55, was doing his regular round delivering drinking water to residents in the United Arab Emirates when Iran launched its first retaliatory attacks against Gulf countries.
March 17, 2026
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VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / March 17, 2026 / ZEUS NORTH AMERICA MINING CORP. (CSE:ZEUS)(OTCQB:ZUUZF)(FRANKFURT:O92) (THE "COMPANY" OR "ZEUS") is pleased to announce that it has upsized and closed the final tranche of its previously announced non-brokered private placement (the "Placement") through the issuance of 4,035,000 units ("Units") at a price of $0.10 per Unit for gross proceeds of $403,500. Together with the first tranche, the Company has raised a total of $2,575,500 through the issuance of 25,755,000 Units.
March 17, 2026
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / March 17, 2026 / Panther Minerals Inc. ("Panther Minerals" or the "Company") (CSE:PURR)(OTCQB:GLIOF)(FWB:2BC), a North American mineral acquisition and exploration company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Rick Mah as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary of the Company, effective immediately.
March 17, 2026
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / March 17, 2026 / Core Critical Metals Corp. ("CCMC" or the "Company") (TSXV:CCMC)(OTC PINK:CCMCF)(WKN:A41G8G), a North American mineral acquisition and exploration company, is pleased to announce a non-brokered private placement of up to 3,000,000 units of the Company (each, a "Unit") at a price of $0.50 per Unit for gross proceeds of up to $1,500,000 (the "Offering"). Each Unit will consist of one common share in the capital of the Company (a "Unit Share" and each common share in the capital of the Company, a "Common Share") and one Common Share purchase warrant (a "Warrant") to be issued pursuant to Part 5A (the "Listed Issuer Financing Exemption") of National Instrument 45-106 - Prospectus Exemptions ("NI 45-106"). Each Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to acquire one Common Share (a "Warrant Share") at a price per Warrant Share of $0.75 for a period of 24 months from the date of issuance. The Warrants will be exercisable 60 days following the closing date of the Offering.
March 17, 2026
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Targeting Initial ‘Stage 1' DFS & Ore Reserves conversion by H2 CY 2026HIGHLIGHTSDFS underway following dual Challenger JORC (2012) Mineral Resources upgrades to 313koz Au 1~8,000m reverse circulation (RC) drilling underway at Challenger ‘Main', ‘Challenger West' (CW) open pits, plus open pit targets at ‘Challenger South-Southwest' (CSSW) and ‘Challenger 3' 1~1,490m diamond drilling (DD) program begins for pit design and metallurgical optimisationDFS objective to model a viable, simplified ‘baseline' Stage 1 operation to underwrite restart of CGM and maximise Challenger, Tarcoola, Wudinna & Tolmer development optionalityFollowing material rain events in central South Australia which have delayed program execution, Barton is targeting JORC (2012) Ore Reserves and a ‘Stage 1' DFS by H2 CY 20261 Refer to ASX announcements dated 30 June and 8 / 28 September 2025
March 17, 2026
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Abinand Rangesh, CEO of Tecogen, commented "during the upcoming call, I will provide some significant positive updates that will include the scale of the Vertiv opportunity pipeline for our chillers, the status of our own data center opportunities and an upcoming pilot project.On other positive news, our revenue grew 20% year on year. Although our loss widened and cash burn increased, this was because of critical expenses needed to expand margins in the service business and to develop the data center opportunities including expanding manufacturing capacity, R&D on our data center dual power source chiller and marketing."
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / March 17, 2026 / Redwood AI Corp. (CSE:AIRX)(Frankfurt:Y0N, WKN:A422EZ) ("Redwood" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that its Chief Executive Officer, Louis Dron, was recently featured in an exclusive interview on Conversations That Matter, a widely distributed long-form program highlighting leaders shaping important industries and ideas. The program is featured in the Vancouver Sun and is broadcast across multiple television networks in British Columbia, Canada, including CHEK-TV, as well as on digital platforms. In the interview, Dron discussed how Vancouver-based Redwood AI is building an artificial intelligence platform designed to help address one of the pharmaceutical industry's biggest bottlenecks by improving how compounds are evaluated, tested, and scaled from early discovery through commercialization, while also highlighting the broader applicability of Redwood's chemistry AI platform in areas such as defense, where rapid chemical analysis, risk assessment, and secure deployment may be important.
March 17, 2026
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MIDLAND, TX / ACCESS Newswire / March 17, 2026 / Today, Vision Oil And Gas, one of the fastest growing Oil & Gas producers in the Permian Basin, announced it's expansion into the Mid Continent and Anadarko Basin , with further penetration of the Permian Basin through the acquisition of 320 gas wells in the Anadarko Basin and 114 oil wells across Regan, Reeves, Ward, Mitchell and Cochran Counties, along with 2 additional bonded operator licenses.
March 17, 2026
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MONTEREY PARK, CA / ACCESS Newswire / March 17, 2026 / Maison Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ:MSS) ("Maison" or the "Company"), a specialty grocery retailer offering traditional Asian food and merchandise to U.S. consumers, today announced financial results for its fiscal third quarter ended January 31, 2026.
TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / March 17, 2026 / Galway Metals Inc. (TSXV:GWM)(OTCQB:GAYMF) ("Galway Metals" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement (the "Agreement") with Red Cloud Financial Services Inc. ("Red Cloud") to provide the Company with a range of non-exclusive financial advisory and promotional services. Red Cloud is a Toronto-based financial services firm that provides assistance to mineral exploration and mining companies in accessing capital markets and enhancing their corporate profile.
DORADO, PUERTO RICO / ACCESS Newswire / March 17, 2026 / Pharma-Bio Serv, Inc. ("Pharma-Bio Serv" or the "Company") (OTCQB:PBSV), a compliance, project management and technology transfer support consulting firm that provides services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, medical device, cosmetic, food and allied products industries, today announced that revenues for the quarter ended January 31, 2026 were approximately $2.3 million, a decrease of approximately $0.2 million when compared to the same period last year. Net income for the quarter ended January 31, 2026 was $32,860, an improvement of $24,324 when compared to the same quarter last year.
FORT PIERCE, FL / ACCESS Newswire / March 17, 2026 / Twin Vee PowerCats Co. (NASDAQ:VEEE), ("Twin Vee" or the "Company"), a manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of power sport boats, today announced the closing of its best-efforts offering of 4,473,000 shares of its common stock. Each share of common stock was sold at an offering price of $0.38 per share, at-the-market under Nasdaq rules. Total gross proceeds from the offering, before deducting the placement agent fee and other offering expenses, were approximately $1.7 million.
March 17, 2026
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