Category Archives: Canadian Press

BEIJING - Regulators found several safety violations in a coal mine in western China where 33 people died this week after being trapped underground in a gas explosion. China’s State Administrati...

NEW YORK - Somewhat incredulously, Jon Stewart on Tuesday recalled getting into a Twitter war three years ago with the man who could be elected president of the United States next week. The former hos...

CLEVELAND - Most fans around the country can sit back and savour Game 7. Not so easy for anyone who has spent a lifetime rooting for the Cubs or Indians. All those years of hope and heartbreak collide...

NEW YORK - It’s not hard to understand why author George Saunders and rock star-actress-author Carrie Brownstein admire each other. Co-hosting a reading Tuesday night in Manhattan, they each sho...

SAN FRANCISCO - California’s ban on sharing photographs of marked ballots violates voters’ First Amendment right to freedom of speech by preventing them from expressing their political vie...

BILLINGS, Mont. - An ambitious effort to restore tribal control over huge areas of privately owned land on American Indian reservations is projected to run out of money with millions of acres still un...

PRESCOTT, Ariz. - A 102-year-old Prescott, Arizona, woman born before women gained the right to vote in America has cast her ballot early and voted for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinto...

MINNEAPOLIS - The first person to call 911 as a man stabbed several people at a central Minnesota mall in September urged a dispatcher to send police and an ambulance, saying: “There’s blo...

CHICAGO - Patrick Kane was terrific, and Corey Crawford had another solid performance for the Blackhawks. Oh, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians in Game 6 of the World Series. “Sure...

BISMARCK, N.D. - North Dakota leaders have agreed to borrow an additional $4 million to cover the escalating costs of policing protests at the Dakota Access pipeline and slammed the federal government...