Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - The railroad industry is playing down expectations that a safety technology that could have prevented recent deadly train crashes will be in operation across the United States by the end ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says an off-the-cuff remark he made during a town hall meeting about making the word mankind more inclusive was an attempt at humour that backfired - a joke that...

STEPHENVILLE, N.L. - A series of alleged sex assaults. A frightening two-hour police lockdown as Mounties patrolled outside classrooms. And now a student-led protest Wednesday to give voice to at leas...

CAYCE, S.C. - Passengers on a train that slammed into an empty freight train over the weekend in South Carolina, killing two Amtrak employees, described a smoky, bloody scene in 911 calls released to ...

Nevada’s major political parties are locked in a legal battle over a Republican effort to take control of the state Senate by recalling two freshly elected Democratic lawmakers - a tactic that D...

SAINTE-ANNE-DE-KENT, N.B. - It’s lunchtime at an elementary school in the bucolic village of Sainte-Anne-de-Kent. The children squeal with delight as they play tag and hopscotch on the playgroun...

LOS ANGELES - The struggling Los Angeles Times found a local saviour in a biotech billionaire willing to buy the storied newspaper from a corporation half a continent away, but the change of ownership...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal headed outdoors to Saudi Arabia’s terracotta-colored sand dunes over the weekend, after being interrogated, investigated and d...

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel finally reached a deal Wednesday to form a new German coalition government, handing the powerful finance ministry to the country’s main centre-left party in an ...

JOHANNESBURG - South African President Jacob Zuma’s exit from power because of scandals appeared to be getting closer on Wednesday as his deputy, who is expected to replace him, said he anticipa...