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Alberta RCMP officer charged following on-duty collision
COLD LAKE, AB - An Alberta RCMP Constable faces charges following an incident while on duty.On August 21, 2021 at 7:06 p.m., while on route to a complaint, a member of the Cold Lake RCMP collided head...
Mar 08, 2022

Russia underestimated Ukraine's resistance, US official says
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States believes Russia underestimated the strength of Ukraine's resistance before launching an invasion that has likely caused thousands of Russian casualties, the Biden a...
Mar 08, 2022

Colombia protest leaders hope to gain seats in Congress
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Jennifer Pedraza has been spending a great deal of time in the streets recently - leading protests that stopped Colombia's government from raising taxes on the middle class and...
Mar 08, 2022

6 teens charged with murder in Iowa school shooting
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Des Moines Police say they have arrested and charged six teenagers with murder in a shooting outside a school that killed a 15-year-old boy and seriously injured two teenage gi...
Mar 08, 2022

Jury deliberations begin in 1st trial over Capitol riot
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal jury began deliberating on Tuesday in the case against a Texas man whose trial is the first for the hundreds of people charged in the riot at the U.S. Capitol last year. Gu...
Mar 08, 2022

Canada's Arendz collects 10th Paralympic medal, a gold in 10K biathlon
Mark Arendz set the bar impossibly high by climbing the medal podium in every one of his six races at the Pyeongchang Paralympics in 2018. It was a Canadian record for a medals won in a winter Paralym...
Mar 08, 2022

Young Newfoundland and Labrador team soaking up its first Brier experience
LETHBRIDGE, AB - It wasn't the bright lights or TV cameras that gave Newfoundland and Labrador's Nicolas Codner the realization he was actually a competitor at the national men's curling championship....
Mar 08, 2022

Trudeau in Latvia, new Trans Mountain expansion conditions : In The News for March 8
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 March 8 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Mar 08, 2022

B.C. adds conditions for Trans Mountain expansion, ministers say concerns remain
VANCOUVER - British Columbia has amended the conditions of its environmental assessment certificate for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansionand told the federal government it still has concerns about...
Mar 08, 2022

Trudeau meeting today with NATO secretary-general in Latvia
RIGA, Latvia - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Latvia today for talks with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg as Russia's invasion in Ukraine nears the two-week mark. Trudeau says the ongoing...
Mar 08, 2022