Category Archives: Canadian Press

RALEIGH, N.C. - North Carolina leaders struck a deal Monday to kill the state law widely derided as the “bathroom bill,” after it tarnished the state’s reputation, cost it scores of ...

SURREY, B.C. - RCMP in Surrey, B.C., were investigating after a five-year-old boy drowned in a bathtub. Police were called to a home in the Whalley neighbourhood just before 5 p.m. Sunday. They say fi...

Toronto police have begun a pilot project testing the use of roadside screening devices for drug-impaired driving. The project - which continues through to next spring - will test how well officers ar...

FREDERICTON - The University of New Brunswick is reinstating women’s varsity hockey following a 10-year absence and a lengthy battle over human rights. “I’m very pleased and very pro...

BURGEO, N.L. - Linda Vatcher made the trip home to Newfoundland’s south coast every year, often offering up a hug and a smile to many people she ran into. “She was just an infectious perso...

NEW YORK - Was 2016 a dream or a nightmare? Try something in between: “surreal,” which is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year, unveiled Monday. Meaning “marked by the intense ir...

GENEVA - The four British soccer federations were fined Monday by FIFA for displaying poppies at World Cup qualifying matches in November to honour their war dead. England’s federation must pay ...

OTTAWA - The federal government pulled billions of dollars off the negotiating table Monday after failing to reach a long-term health-care funding agreement with frustrated provincial and territorial ...

AMMAN, Jordan - Tourists from Canada, Britain and Malaysia were hiding inside a Crusader castle during armed clashes between Jordan troops and gunmen at the site, Jordan’s interior minister said...

MOSCOW - Russia’s top investigative agency says that at least eight people have died of alcohol poisoning in a Siberian city. The Investigative Committee said Sunday that at least 18 people had ...