Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - Lisa Bowes imagined her storybook character “Lucy” as a compilation of many young girls. The freckled redhead who lived in Bowes’ imagination was a bit Pippi Longstocking. ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - A truck veered off a mountain road in Nepal on Friday, killing at least 16 people and injuring many others. Villagers were returning from a funeral and travelling in an open truck w...

NEW YORK - The World Series champion Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees will open Major League Baseball’s first series in Britain with a night game and conclude the next day in the afternoo...

VANCOUVER - Delegates from British Columbia’s forest industry have concluded what they characterize as a successful trade mission to Asia despite tensions over the arrest of Huawei chief financi...

OTTAWA - With a little over a week before Christmas, Canada Post says it is starting to catch up on parcel deliveries that have been delayed by rotating strikes over the past two months. The Crown cor...

KERRVILLE, Texas - A Texas mother whose two toddlers died after she left them inside a hot vehicle overnight was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Amanda Hawkins, 20, learned her punishment Wednesday f...

CHARLOTTETOWN - Immigration fraud charges were stayed Friday against two Charlottetown motel owners after it was alleged hundreds of newcomers used their hotel as an address though they didn’t i...

Canadian MMA fighter Valerie (Trouble) Letourneau went halfway around the world last time she fought for a title. While she only had to go to Hawaii this time, she will find herself on hostile ground ...

CALGARY - The Calgary Stampeders promoted Brent Monson to defensive co-ordinator on Friday. He takes over from DeVone Claybrooks, who was announced as the new head coach of the B.C. Lions on Tuesday. ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Russian bobsled federation president Alexander Zubkov and four others have been provisionally suspended for doping in fallout from the Sochi Olympics. The International Bobsled...