Category Archives: The Canadian Press

TORONTO - Mario Lemieux was ranked the greatest player in major junior hockey history as the Canadian Hockey League unveiled its all-time Top 50 list Thursday. The former Laval Voisins star finished a...

Five Canadian track cyclists who compete in the women's team pursuit are appealing Cycling Canada's decision not to enter them in the world championship. Fiona Majendie, Skyler Goudswaard, Jenna Nestm...

A rapidly warming planet due to human-caused climate change is set to amplify what forecasters say could be a supercharged El Nino, spelling possible hot and dry conditions to come for parts of Canada...

CALGARY - Calgary Stampede Princess Sarah O'Brien and First Nations Princess Raegan First Rider took a deep breath Thursday before taking a big bite of "What the Duck," a creation unveiled for the Sta...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senators unanimously approved a resolution Thursday to withhold their pay during government shutdowns, an attempt to make federal closures financially painful for lawmakers after a s...

A small medical plane crashed in a mountain range outside Ruidoso, New Mexico, before dawn Thursday, killing all four people aboard and sparking a wildfire in the surrounding forest, officials said. T...

TORONTO - Canada's chief public health officer says the country is taking a "precautionary approach" in monitoring people who may have had indirect contact with passengers who were on the hantavirus-s...

The best place for Alberta to be is in Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday after a judge's decision to throw out a separatist petition in the province. "Certainly a Canada that works, whi...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma has executed a man who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old daughter nearly 20 years ago. Raymond Johnson, 52, was pronounced dead at 10:12 a...

VANCOUVER - Daniel and Henrik Sedin played every single one of their NHL games for the Vancouver Canucks. Now the Hall of Fame forwards have moved into the franchise's front office. The twins were nam...