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LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president has the potential to influence Los Angeles’ chances of hosting the 2024 Olympics. For better or worse. Some International ...

WASHINGTON - He saw his friendships strained, his methods challenged, but in the end he was right again. Allan Lichtman has now predicted nine consecutive presidential election results based on a mode...

WASHINGTON - A fractured, discontented electorate handed Donald Trump the presidency, allowing him to breach a region that Democrat Hillary Clinton was banking on in her bid for the presidency. Key ba...

SURREY, B.C. - The case against a man accused of stabbing two girls at an Abbotsford, B.C., high school will move ahead despite the man’s persistent silence, a judge says. The court heard on Wed...

CRANBROOK, B.C. - Mark Nichols led Team Gushue to a pair of important wins on Wednesday at the Tour Challenge. Nichols (2-0), from St. John’s, N.L., started his day with a 9-4 victory over Scotl...

Vancouver is proposing a one-per-cent tax on the value of empty homes in an effort to increase the vacancy rate in the city’s incredibly tight rental market. Mayor Gregor Robertson unveiled the ...

CALGARY - TransCanada Corp. says it’s evaluating ways to engage the newly elected Donald Trump administration on the potential benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline. Company spokesman Mark Cooper...

LOS ANGELES - Voter support for marijuana legalization reached a new high as California, Massachusetts and Nevada approved recreational pot, joining four other states and Washington, D.C., with simila...

LETHBRIDGE – The union representing employees of a Lethbridge care home says they don’t want to strike, but need to get bargaining going again. The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (A...

DETROIT - Shifting demand from cars to trucks and SUVS is forcing General Motors to lay off more than 2,000 workers indefinitely at two assembly plants in Ohio and Michigan starting in January. The co...