Category Archives: Canadian Press

WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s governing Progressive Conservatives are already raising much more money than their opponents. But Premier Brian Pallister is now eyeing changes to fundraising rules that on...

WASHINGTON - U.S. home prices rose again in October as buyers bidding for scarce properties drove prices higher. The Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 5....

Quebec’s independent police review board is investigating after an alleged machete-wielding man was shot and killed after a car chase with police. The review board says the car chase through the...

Berlin’s museum authority says it has scrapped plans for an exhibition of works from the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art because Iran hasn’t granted permission for their export. The exhi...

MULTAN, Pakistan - At least 31 people have died from drinking tainted liquor over the Christmas holiday in Pakistan, police and doctors said Tuesday, raising an earlier toll. Local police officer Atif...

Five stories in the news for Tuesday, Dec. 27 --- TWO HIKERS MISSING ON BC’s CYPRESS MOUNTAIN A search was set to resume at first light for two hikers believed missing on Cypress Mountain in Bri...

NEW DELHI - India’s Jet Airways said that 12 passengers were injured during an emergency evacuation Tuesday after one of its planes veered off the runway before taking off on a domestic flight i...

VANCOUVER - The number of people using prescription opioids long-term in British Columbia was growing at a “silent but steady” rate for years before the current overdose crisis erupted, a ...

CHICAGO - The furious winter storm that swept into the northern Great Plains on Christmas Day weakened Tuesday, but thousands remained without power in the Dakotas and Michigan. High winds and driftin...

BEIJING - China vowed Tuesday to speed up the development of its space industry as it set out its plans to become the first country to soft land a probe on the far side of the moon, by around 2018, an...