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OTTAWA - Transport Canada says it's lifting speed restrictions for cargo ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence after recent surveillance failed to detect North Atlantic right whales in shipping ...

Irvine, AB - Cypress County has officially lifted the evacuation order for the hamlet of Irvine and a seven-kilometre radius of the community.The hamlet was evacuated for nearly eight hours after a Ca...

HARARE, Zimbabwe - The United States on Thursday placed on its sanctions list a former Zimbabwean army general who commanded troops accused of killing six civilians a year ago after a disputed electio...

LOS ANGELES - Katy Perry, her collaborators and her record label must pay more than $2.78 million because the pop star's 2013 hit "Dark Horse" copied a 2009 Christian rap song, a federal jury decided ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Two local filmmakers have each received $50,000.Lethbridge's Kynan Gordon and Erin Chase are each recipients of the funding from Telus Storyhive. Telus Storyhive is a production outfi...

JUNCTION CITY, Ky. - A regional gas pipeline ruptured early Thursday in Kentucky, causing a massive explosion that killed one person, hospitalized five others, destroyed railroad tracks and forced the...

LONDON - Emergency workers raced Saturday to lower water levels behind a damaged dam in northwest England as forecasters warned more bad weather is on the way. Pumps have reduced the water level in To...

NEW YORK - Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has written a memoir. The book by the man whose leaks of classified documents transformed the debate about government surveillance ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Sarah Russell is hoping to inspire youth with her message of unity, community support and reconciliation. That's why, as her last project as an Indigenous Art student at the Universit...

HALIFAX - Canada's military reserve units will see $250 million in repairs and upgrades to their armouries and training facilities over the next five years, changes Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan...