Category Archives: Canadian Press

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The Newfoundland and Labrador government says it will spend $180,000 on a province-wide program to counter the effects of opioid overdoses. Provincial Health Minister John Hag...

KALISPELL, Mont. - A Canadian man convicted of shooting his ex-girlfriend and a man during what U.S. prosecutors say was a jealous rage has been sentenced to life in prison in Montana. The Flathead Be...

OTTAWA - The federal budget watchdog says that creating a tax credit for local residents who regularly pay tolls on the Confederation Bridge would cost the treasury about $2.5 million a year in forgon...

TORONTO - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has officially entered the Marvel universe - and the boxing ring - as a newly minted comic cover star. Trudeau appears on the variant cover of issue No. 5 of Ma...

WASHINGTON - U.S. businesses added a solid 177,000 jobs in August, according to a private survey, suggesting that hiring remains healthy after two months of strong gains. Payroll processor ADP said th...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - The head coach of South Korea’s national team resigned on Wednesday as police investigate allegations that two male swimmers secretly filmed female swimmers after ins...

BEIRUT - A small bomb exploded Wednesday on a main road near the eastern Lebanese city of Zahleh, killing at least one person and wounding 11 others, security officials and state media said. It was no...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Demolition workers in Tennessee have taken down the last building in a massive Oak Ridge uranium enrichment complex built more than 70 years ago as part of the top-secret Manhattan ...

HOWELL, N.J. - Police say a man used a sledgehammer to rescue a baby from a hot car at a New Jersey shopping centre. Police say 53-year-old Steve Eckel of Jackson and 30-year-old Sarah Mazzone of Howe...

RODANTHE, N.C. - North Carolina’s Outer Banks have been spared from a tropical storm system that has been moving toward the state for two days, an official said Wednesday. Dare County Emergency ...