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MONTREAL - Farah Alibay describes the moments between the time the Perseverance rover entered Mars' atmosphere on Thursday and when it landed on the surface of the Red Planet as "the longest seven min...

SAN FRANCISCO - After 139 years at 807 Franklin St. in San Francisco, a two-story Victorian house has a new address. The green home with large windows and a brown front door was loaded onto giant doll...

OTTAWA - The federal government has quietly revealed that it plans to pay nearly $1 billion to build a new ocean research vessel for the Canadian Coast Guard whose original cost was supposed to be one...

CALGARY - Alberta's Laura Walker led Pool A at the Canadian women's curling championship at 3-0 on Sunday.Alberta thumped Northern Ontario's Krysta Burns 12-2 in the morning draw.Defending champion Ke...

Canada's chief public health officer says the collective efforts to fight COVID-19 are paying off, even as the country sits at a 'critical juncture' in the fight against fast-spreading variants. Dr. T...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Workers in Tennessee raced Sunday to fix water mains that failed in freezing temperatures, and COVID-19 vaccine shipments resumed as the South carried on with efforts to recover from ...

EDMONTON - On Thursday it's budget day in Alberta, a time that will cruelly and ironically remind residents that last year's projected eye-popping $6.8-billion deficit was actually the good old days. ...

BLAUSASC, France - Canadian rider Michael Woods finished runner-up at the three-day Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var on Sunday, Gianluca Brambilla's 13-second stage win moved the Italian atop the po...

Drumheller RCMP are investigating at a local residence where three people have been found deceased.The detachment says members received a 911 call at about 7:40 on Feb. 20.When they arrived, three ind...

JERUSALEM - Israel closed all its Mediterranean beaches until further notice on Sunday, days after an offshore oil spill deposited tons of tar across more than 100 miles (160 kilometres) of coastline ...