Category Archives: Canadian Press

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Officials at a soon-to-open Massachusetts casino resort say there will be year-round entertainment and activities at the $960 million resort. MGM Springfield officials said Wednes...

LONDON - The jacket worn by actor Harrison Ford in the “Star Wars” film “The Empire Strikes Back” is expected to fetch up to 1 million pounds ($1.3 million) in an auction of ra...

ZHANGJIAGANG, China - Canada’s women’s basketball opened its four-game Asian exhibition series with an 82-65 loss to China on Wednesday. Miranda Ayim had a game-high 15 points and three re...

HALIFAX - A Halifax university has become the first in Nova Scotia to offer its students free menstrual products, part of a national movement that has been gaining steam among student leaders. Nikki J...

MANCHESTER, Tenn. - Autopsy results show a man who died while attending the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee accidently overdosed on drugs. The Tennessean cited a toxicology report that s...

Adam Hadwin is optimistic he’ll return for the PGA Championship next week after dropping out of the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational with a hip injury. The top-ranked Canadian g...

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. - The National Comedy Center is open for laughs in “I Love Lucy” comedian Lucille Ball’s hometown. The $50 million cultural institution is in the western New York cit...

HALIFAX - Atlantic Canada’s largest city has a new, and highly unlikely, tropical flavour. Nine palm trees have been planted in four Halifax parks, although the jury is out on whether they can s...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s privacy commissioner says she’s shocked by how a grocery-store pharmacist was able to snoop into the electronic personal health information of dozens of people she ...

TORONTO - A lawyer for former Toronto Blue Jay Roberto Osuna, who is charged with assault, took issue Wednesday with recent comments from the general manager of his client’s new team, the Housto...