Author Archives:

HALIFAX - A Cape Breton man has struck it rich in the lottery for the second time in seven years. Raymond Lillington and his wife Gaye, of Dingwall, N.S., travelled to Halifax today where they were aw...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Wednesday suspended or terminated three bilateral agreements with Hong Kong covering extradition and tax exemptions. The State Department announced it had take...

MONTREAL - A Montreal man who pleaded guilty to stabbing his unborn baby to death will spend at least 15 years in prison before he's eligible for parole. Sofiane Ghazi received his sentence ...

NEW YORK - Stocks are ticking higher in midday trading on Wall Street Wednesday, adding a bit more to the S&P 500's record. The S&P 500 was up 0.3% a day after it wiped out the last of its los...

NEW YORK - Angel Dougherty went to the mall last month - not to shop, but to watch a drive-in drag show in the parking lot. "This year has been so anxiety filled and chaotic, I figured this experience...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. on Aug. 19, 2020: There are 123,154 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 61,252 confirmed (including 5,727 deaths, 54,083 res...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran surpassed 20,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus on Wednesday, the health ministry said - the highest death toll for any Middle East country so far in the pandemic. The annou...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Albertans can expect to get their War Amps key tags in the mail starting this week.The War Amps provides artificial limbs and support for amputees. Not only does the key tag program r...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Rapper and music producer Kanye West's campaign ran into trouble Tuesday on his first day of trying to get on the presidential ballot in his home state of Wyoming. People gathering si...

RICHMOND, Va. - When the bronze equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived by rail in Richmond from Paris in 1890, it took 10,000 men, women and children to haul its pieces more than a mile to th...