Category Archives: Canadian Press

HONOLULU - A passenger on a tour boat that was struck by lava off Hawaii’s Big Island last week shielded his girlfriend and waited for death as searing debris came ripping through the catamaran&...

BOISE, Idaho - Fire-lookout towers perched atop remote, craggy peaks across the U.S. West may seem like quaint reminders of an era before satellites, smartphones and jet-propelled air tankers. Indeed,...

PHOENIX - Scorching heat radiated across the U.S. Southwest on Tuesday, setting record highs in California’s Death Valley, Thermal and Palm Springs in a week that forecasters say could prove to ...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Samsung Electronics and a group representing ailing Samsung computer chip and display factory workers said Tuesday they have agreed to end a years-long standoff over compen...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Ryan Lochte doesn’t know when he’ll be in another race. And that worries him. What’s next for Lochte is a mystery, even to himself. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agenc...

ATTAPEU, Laos - Rescuers searched Wednesday for scores of villagers left missing when part of a newly built hydroelectric dam broke in southeastern Laos, flooding the surrounding countryside and killi...

TORONTO - Firefighters were battling 55 forest fires as of late Monday in northeast Ontario, of which 21 were not yet under control. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry said one of the fire...

Five stories in the news for Tuesday, July 24 --- SURGE IN ILLEGAL GUNS SOURCED IN CANADA The number of guns obtained legally in Canada but are then sold to people who use them for criminal purposes s...

CALGARY - As a hockey player, Jayna Hefford strove to make her league viable and respected. She’s now in a position to do that as its leader. Hefford, who will enter the Hockey Hall of Fame this...

CHURCHILL, Man. - Florence Hamilton’s ancestors once followed the caribou across the Arctic tundra. That was before the federal government forcefully relocated the Sayisi Dene to barren land out...