Category Archives: Canadian Press

KETCHUM, Idaho - The actor who portrayed the tights-clad Batman in the 1960s TV series is selling paintings he has created of villains from the show at an art gallery in the central Idaho resort town ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. health officials have approved a new option for some women battling ovarian cancer: a drug that targets a genetic mutation seen in a subset of hard-to-treat tumors. The Food and Drug...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - A 27-year-old man has been sentenced after pleading guilty to charges connected with a snowmobile attack on two mushers competing in Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in ...

VANCOUVER - Standing in the same hallway where one of the defining - and ugly - moments of his brief and tumultuous time with the Vancouver Canucks took place, John Tortorella seems more relaxed, if o...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Dec. 19 FEDS UP HEALTH-CARE FUNDING OFFER TO $11.5B AND 3.5% OVER 10 YEARS: Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the federal government has been unable to reach...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his pan-Canadian climate plan can be considered a bust if it fails to put Canada on track to meeting its international, 2030 emission-cutting targets. In a ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in just six years, a period when 1,728 people fatally overdosed on these two painkillers, acco...

GANDER, N.L. - Dozens of fish didn’t make it, but a contingent of small animals has arrived in Gander, N.L., dirty but apparently healthy after a four-day delay in Halifax. The animals had been ...

ANKARA, Turkey - The event seemed routine, the opening of an exhibit of photographs of Russia. So when a man in a dark suit and tie pulled out a gun, I was stunned and thought it was a theatrical flou...

TORONTO - A woman’s long quest to be recognized as an Indian goes before Ontario’s top court Tuesday in a constitutional challenge that asserts she and others like her are victims of discr...