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A collision south of Lacombe Wednesday evening claimed the life of a 40-year-old motorcycle rider. The crash between the southbound motorcycle and a northbound pickup truck happened at about 7 p.m. at...

EDMONTON - Two RCMP officers who were charged in the shooting death of a 31-year old man in northern Alberta two years ago are now facing manslaughter charges. Cpl. Randy Stenger and Const. Jessica Br...

Sami Jo Small often felt conflicted about her role on the Canadian women's hockey team. The goaltender started 51 games for Canada over her decade on the national team. The on...

The 25-year-old Australian actress Geraldine Viswanathan, having already stolen movies left and right, more straightforwardly owns "Broken Hearts Gallery," a glossy but spirited Gen-Y romantic comedy ...

LONDON - Maggie O'Farrell won the Women's Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for "Hamnet," a novel that explores the lives of William Shakespeare's often-maligned wife and lost son. O'Farrell's novel beat...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says growth in spending on federal employees has more to do with the amounts spent per worker and not because there are more workers to spend on. Spending on ...

LONDON - Diana Rigg, a commanding British actress whose career stretched from iconic 1960s spy series "The Avengers" to fantasy juggernaut "Game of Thrones," has died. She was 82. Rigg's agent, Simon ...

NEW YORK - Actor Anthony Rapp and another man filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against actor Kevin Spacey, accusing him of sexual assaults in the 1980s when they were teens. Rapp, who starred in "Rent" on...

Any change to the Oscars is going get people talking, so the leaders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were not exactly surprised that the new best picture inclusion standards became ...

OTTAWA - Canada's election watchdog says former finance minister Bill Morneau broke the law when he promoted Liberal candidates at events he attended while in charge of the finance portfolio. The comm...