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CALGARY- The head of Alberta's $30-million-a-year energy war room is apologizing for posts on Twitter that questioned The New York Times' credibility.The Canadian Energy Centre posted a 20-tweet threa...

GRAVENHURST, Ont.- An Edmonton man found guilty of murdering his pregnant wife and dumping her body in a ditch nearly 15 years ago will be allowed to leave prison unsupervised to spend time with the c...

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the U.S. economy appears durable, with steady growth and unemployment near a half-century low, but faces risks from the broadening...

TOKYO - Japan announced Thursday its first death from a new virus, hours after confirming 44 more cases on a cruise ship quarantined near Tokyo as fears of the spreading disease mount in the country. ...

LACOMBE- The City of Lacombe has announced a $3000 per year, five-year sponsorship with the Alberta Conservation Association (ACA) to support fish stocking at the Len Thompson Fish Pond Park.The munic...

Via Rail has extended train cancellations on major routes in Ontario and Quebec as protests against a pipeline in northern B.C. stretched into a sixth-day on Wednesday. Passenger and freight rail...

CALGARY - Darcy Sharpe says he goes to sleep feeling happy these days. The snowboarder from Comox, B.C., won his first X Games gold medal last month in Aspen, Colo. Sharpe vaulted from last ...

KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine's president dismissed his chief of staff on Tuesday in a sign of intensifying rivalries in his entourage and a possible move to distance himself from a powerful billionaire. Pr...

Kerri Einarson is enjoying the prospect of a direct entry into the Canadian women's curling championship. Winning the Manitoba women's curling crown means avoiding Friday's sudden-...

JOHANNESBURG - The founder of the South African multi-Grammy-Award-winning music group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala, has died at age 78, the group and the government announced Tuesday. Sh...