Category Archives: Canadian Press

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has declared a provincial state of emergency to support the response to the hundreds of wildfires burning across the province. The state of emergency will re...

HALIFAX - A call by police chiefs for Ottawa to closely vet people who import pill presses that may be used to encapsulate opioids will be carefully considered by federal officials, the minister of or...

WASHINGTON - For years, Omarosa Manigault Newman stood at Donald Trump’s side, making her deeply unpopular with African-Americans who see her as a sellout for aligning herself with a president w...

NEW YORK - Aerosmith is the latest act to head to Las Vegas to launch a residency. The rock band announced Wednesday that “Aerosmith: Deuces are Wild” would kick off April 6, 2019, at the ...

The Duke Blue Devils aren’t the first prominent NCAA basketball team to come play in Canada. A rule allowing NCAA teams to make one out-of-country trip every four years, which comes along with 1...

OTTAWA - The number of irregular border crossers in Canada went up in July after two months of decline. Newly published federal data shows a total of 1,634 irregular migrants were apprehended by RCMP ...

WINNIPEG - Crown prosecutors are appealing the sentence of a man who left his 89-year-old mother on the floor of their home for several weeks until she died. Ronald Siwicki, 66, was sentenced in July ...

OTTAWA - The minister responsible for Parks Canada says tearing down statues is not the solution when it comes to addressing the darker side of Canadian history. Environment Minister Catherine McKenna...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Police in Buffalo say they’ve found a 2-year-old child safe inside a stolen car. Police say the girl was in a car on Chester Street that was stolen around 11:20 p.m. Tuesday, pro...

CAIRO - A boat sank on Wednesday while crossing the Nile River in Sudan and at least 22 people drowned, including 21 students and a woman, the country’s state news agency reported. The boat was ...