Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - Emera Inc. is pulling out of the troubled Cape Sharp Tidal turbine project in the Bay of Fundy. Nova Scotia Power’s parent company announced its decision in a statement released Monday...

NEWCASTLE, Australia - The most senior Roman Catholic cleric convicted of covering up child sex abuse was ordered by an Australian court Tuesday to serve his 1-year sentence in home detention rather t...

HONG KONG - A Hong Kong pro-independence activist decried Beijing’s rule over the city as modern-day colonialism in a speech Tuesday to a foreign journalists’ association that defied the C...

BEIJING - China blamed “anti-China forces” on Tuesday for the growing criticism of Beijing’s policies in a far western region where large groups of ethnic Uighurs are being detained ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. - A Florida judge on Tuesday kept bond at $100,000 for a man charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a man who assaulted him outside a convenience store in a dispute over p...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania molested more than 1,000 children - and possibly many more - since the 1940s, and senior church officials, including a man who is n...

LINCOLN, Neb. - Nebraska carried out its first execution in more than two decades on Tuesday with a drug combination never tried before, including the first use of the powerful opioid fentanyl in a le...

Canada’s top teen athletes are making their mark in some of the biggest international sports. Here’s a look at the accomplishments of five of the country’s teen stars in 2018, with a...

TORONTO - The number of teenage Canadian athletes seemingly on the precipice of big things in high-visibility sports appears to be at its highest level in recent memory. The tennis scene includes Deni...

MILAN - A 51-year-old highway bridge in the Italian port city of Genoa collapsed in a driving rain Tuesday, killing at least 26 people and injuring 15 others as it sent dozens of vehicles tumbling int...