Category Archives: Canadian Press

TRURO, N.S. - Bedtime for Stacey Taylor’s 11-year-old son Kai hasn’t been the same since his cat Marley went missing - one of more than 18 pets that have mysteriously disappeared from Trur...

BURLINGTON, Vt. - A Quebec man arrested while dragging a sled loaded with more than 82 kilograms of prescription pills into the United States has been sentenced to a year in prison. Cedrik Bourgault-M...

Donald Fehr is approaching six years in his post as the head of the NHL Players’ Association. In advance of the World Cup, the 68-year-old sat down with The Canadian Press to discuss next month&...

LINTON, Ind. - A Purdue University entomology professor has returned a copy of “The Moths of the Limberlost” that he checked out 60 years ago at age 8. WTWO-TV in Terre Haute, Indiana, rep...

STONEWALL, Man. - Former television game show host and animal rights advocate Bob Barker is providing $50,000 to a Manitoba couple who want to build the province’s first black bear cub rehabilit...

TORONTO - Bottled water companies in Ontario may soon have to pay more and take less water as public outcry over revelations that the province charges them just $3.71 for every million litres triggere...

PORTLAND, Maine - President Barack Obama on Wednesday created a new national monument in Maine on 87,000 acres donated by the founder of Burt’s Bees, fulfilling conservationist Roxanne Quimby...

HALIFAX - Two investigations have been launched into the collapse of an 80-metre wind turbine in Cape Breton, believed to be the first catastrophic failure of its kind in Canada. Montreal-based Enerco...

WASHINGTON - US homebuyers pulled back in July, as sales declined amid by a shortage of available properties and steadily rising prices. Sales of existing homes fell 3.2 per cent last month to a seaso...

AMATRICE, Italy - The Latest on the earthquake in central Italy (all times local): 2:30 a.m. New York City’s World Trade Center is honouring the victims of the earthquake in Italy. Gov. Andrew C...