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MONTREAL - A Montreal teen who drowned during a high school gym class spent 38 minutes at the bottom of the pool without anyone noticing, a coroner’s investigation has found. Dr. Louis Normandin...

The special weather statement issued for Drayton Valley, Devon, Rimbey, and Pigeon Lake for Nov. 27 has ended.

Coach Rhian Wilkinson dismisses any suggestion that Canada, just one win away from the championship game, is a team of destiny at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Uruguay. Hard work and talent...

CLIVE, Iowa - An Iowa man whose 2-year-old son shot himself with his father’s handgun is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 14 in Des Moines. Polk County court records show 30-year-old Jonathan Haus...

CALGARY - A man accused in a double murder killed a woman who was trying to protect a close friend and then silenced the woman’s five-year-old daughter who was a witness, a Crown prosecutor sugg...

LONDON - A cohort of international lawmakers is trying to turn up the pressure on Facebook, grilling one of its executives and making a show of founder Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to explain to th...

RED DEER- The Charity Checkstop will be held December 1 from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m. in support of the Women's Outreach Adopt a Family program, Red Deer Christmas Bureau, M.A.D.D and Red Deer Food Bank. T...

The special weather statement issued for Red Deer and central Alberta for Nov. 27 has ended. === Freezing rain is expected later today into Wednesday morning across central Alberta. Environment Canada...

PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron is trying to defuse protests over rising fuel taxes by explaining his plans to wean the country off fossil fuels and promising to shift out of cheap nuclear en...

BERLIN - A German court on Tuesday convicted a man of 28 counts of attempted murder in last year’s attack on the Borussia Dortmund soccer team’s bus and sentenced him to 14 years in prison...