Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - A Halifax-based sailor has been handed a 22-month jail sentence and has been dismissed from the navy after a military judge found him guilty of sexually assaulting a subordinate. In a verdic...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Bad weather in southwestern Alaska has delayed the air search for a British Columbia man and his climbing companion near Juneau. Twenty-four-year old Marc-Andre Leclerc of Squamish an...

MILAN - Former Italian Premier Matteo Renzi formally resigned Monday as leader of the Democratic Party following its crushing election defeat, with the interim leader maintaining the party line of ref...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - A political crisis in Slovakia set off by the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee deepened Monday when a junior party in the governing coalition called for r...

BERLIN - Germany’s biggest-selling newspaper says it is ending a decades-long practice of commissioning photos of topless female models. The Bild daily said Monday that “we will show no mo...

WASHINGTON - Not two weeks ago, President Donald Trump wagged his finger at a Republican senator and scolded him for being “afraid of the NRA,” declaring that he would stand up to the powe...

HALIFAX - An intense storm is expected to bring another blast of winter to the Maritimes this week. Environment Canada says a low pressure system is forecast to develop east of Cape Hatteras today and...

JEONGSEON, Korea, Republic Of - Wendy Massie heard the howls. They pierced through what had been a picture perfect morning at the family’s cottage in Pointe au Baril, on the east coast of Georgi...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - A plane carrying 71 people from Bangladesh swerved erratically and flew dangerously low before crashing and erupting in flames as it landed Monday in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capita...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba residents will be paying just over five cents more for a litre of gas after the carbon tax kicks in Sept. 1., but the province has promised that all its revenues will eventually be...