COVID-19 Coronavirus

Canadian boxing team in holding pattern after Olympic trial event cancelled

Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold had been trying to tune out negative COVID-19 news and focus solely on training and her quest for a Tokyo Olympic berth. But the two-time Pan American Games champion woke u...

Mar 13, 2020

AP Exclusive: Visits to federal inmates halted over virus

WASHINGTON - Inmates at all 122 federal correctional facilities across the country will no longer be allowed visits from family, friends or attorneys for the next 30 days, in response to the threat of...

Mar 13, 2020

Exhibition Park working with event organizers in wake of COVID-19

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Nothing has been canceled, but upcoming events at Exhibition Park may need to be rescheduled.Exhibition Park COO Mike Warkentin originally issued a statement early Thursday afternoon ...

Mar 13, 2020 Exhibition Park COO Mike Warkentin. (Lethbridge News Now)

WHO declares coronavirus a pandemic, urges aggressive action

GENEVA - The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic and urged aggressive action from all countries to fight it, as U.S. stocks plunged into bear market territory and several Ame...

Mar 13, 2020

Mormons to hold major conference without attendees

SALT LAKE CITY - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Wednesday that it will hold a major conference in April that features speeches by top leaders without any attendees because o...

Mar 13, 2020

Politics in the time of COVID-19: campaigns in Canada, U.S. pivot amid outbreak

WASHINGTON - The glad-handing, confetti-and-skimmer-hat spirit of North American retail politics is on a collision course with the realities of life in a pandemic. In both Canada and th...

Mar 13, 2020

Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests negative for coronavirus

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has tested negative for the new coronavirus, according to a post Friday on his official Facebook profile. He travelled to Florida last weekend and di...

Mar 13, 2020

Minimal hit to economic growth from rail blockades, PBO says in new report

OTTAWA - Parliament's spending watchdog says a series of rail blockades last month will leave a minimal dent in the pace of economic growth. The report today estimates the blockades will shave two-ten...

Mar 13, 2020

AP VoteCast: A state-by-state look at Democratic primaries

WASHINGTON - The Associated Press surveyed voters in three of the six states that held Democratic presidential contests on Tuesday. Here's a snapshot of voters in Michigan, Missouri and Mississippi - ...

Mar 13, 2020

'Very much alive': Biden victorious in 4 more primary states

WASHINGTON - Joe Biden decisively won Michigan's Democratic presidential primary, seizing a key battleground state that helped propel Bernie Sanders' insurgent candidacy four years ago. The former vic...

Mar 13, 2020