Category Archives: Canadian Press

OAK BAY, B.C. - Residents of a picturesque community on Vancouver Island have had enough of deer munching on their prized gardens, so a group is looking at whether birth control might help rein in the...

Kavis Reed understands he has big shoes to fill. The 43-year-old native of Georgetown, S.C., was officially named general manager of the Montreal Alouettes on Wednesday. In his first foray into CFL ma...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Police in New Westminster, B.C., say a 39-year-old “high-risk” woman and her newborn baby have been found safe. The New Westminster Police Department had asked the ...

RICHMOND, B.C. - The Transportation Safety Board issued recommendations to the Transport Department on Wednesday aimed at the commercial fishing industry after the capsizing in September 2015 of a ves...

BATHURST, N.B. - Two police officers charged in the fatal shooting of a New Brunswick businessman they mistakenly thought was involved in the drug trade won’t find out until next year whether th...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government made a bid for peace with the province’s teachers union Wednesday, while another labour battle was brewing with public servants. Premier Stephen McNeil asked...

TORONTO - The Toronto-based parent company of the infidelity dating site Ashley Madison said Wednesday it hoped to have turned the page after reaching settlements in an investigation led by the U.S. F...

BATON ROUGE, La. - An executive order issued by Louisiana’s governor that was aimed at protecting the rights of LGBT people in state government was thrown out Wednesday by a judge who said the g...

Former Blue Jays great Joe Carter first got to know Canadian entertainer Alan Thicke at a charity golf tournament a few years ago in Las Vegas. Carter was a fan of Thicke’s television work and w...

HALIFAX - Scientists remain baffled by what has caused tens of thousands of dead herring to wash ashore along Nova Scotia’s southwestern coast, despite a battery of tests. “What it is, is ...