Category Archives: Canadian Press

MIAMI - The NBA and its players have agreed to keep the most lucrative era in league history rolling. The sides agreed Wednesday in principle on a new collective bargaining agreement, one that could l...

MANCHESTER, England - Used sparingly by Chelsea during its long run of victories, Cesc Fabregas is providing significant reminders of his enduring value to the English Premier League leaders. Two week...

EDMONTON - The grand chief of Treaty Six First Nations says he is discouraged that an Edmonton city councillor has concerns about naming streets with indigenous words that some people may find hard to...

EDMONTON - The chief of staff to Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is moving on. Brian Topp has announced he is leaving his post and will return to Ontario. He has accepted a fellowship with the Public Po...

Calgary-based Athabasca Oil Corp. (TSX:ATH) has struck a deal to buy the northern Alberta oilsands assets of Norwegian oil giant Statoil ASA for up to $832 million. The surprise sale agreement announc...

TORONTO - Medically sanctioned opioid use has dropped by almost 14 per cent since national guidelines for prescribing the drugs were introduced in 2010, yet the rate of overdose-related hospital visit...

A nickel here, a nickel there, and pretty soon you’re talking about some real money. Workers at a suburban Philadelphia steel plant operated a sophisticated theft ring that smuggled nearly $1 mi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo has become the worst-case example of an unnerving but increasingly common phenomenon - massive hacks that steal secrets and other potentially revealing information from our perso...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Michigan’s Republican Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to become the new Republican National Committee chair next year. The niec...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Dec. 14 DOCUMENTS SHOW OTTAWA WATCHED U.S. CAMPAIGN WARILY: Canadian diplomats in Washington warned Ottawa earlier this year that a Donald Trump presidency...