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It has now been one year since Alberta Health began funding 20 medical detox beds at Red Deer's Safe Harbour, offering those experiencing addiction one more outlet to get back on the right path. In th...

MATIAS ROMERO, Mexico - The main caravan of Central American migrants spent a rain-drenched night outside before continuing their slow walk through southern Mexico, on a path that is taking them towar...

FREDERICTON - When New Brunswick’s Liberal government was defeated Friday in a confidence vote, 36-year-old Premier Brian Gallant was set to transform from Canada’s youngest premier to Can...

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Nicola Di Iorio broke his silence about his absence from Parliament Hill on Friday, saying he is performing unspecified tasks assigned by the prime minister himself. The Montreal-a...

A former Red Deer high school teacher has pleaded guilty to child porn and child sex charges out of Saskatchewan. Rhett Lundgren pleaded guilty Friday in Saskatoon Court of Queen's Bench to one count ...

FORT WORTH, Texas - A Goodwill worker collecting clothes and other items at a Texas sorting centre was surprised to find an albino python clinging to the side of a bin. The python was huddled in a pil...

OTTAWA - The federal government has agreed to give a judge the chance to review thousands of documents including cabinet secrets to decide which ones are relevant to the politically charged case again...

ISLAMABAD - Prominent Pakistani cleric Maulana Samiul Haq, also known as the “father of the Taliban,” was killed in a knife attack at his home in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Friday,...

DOHA, Qatar - Canada’s Shallon Olsen captured a silver medal on vault in the individual apparatus finals Friday at the world gymnastics championships. Olsen, of Surrey, B.C., entered the competi...

A candidate for the United Conservative Party nomination in Red Deer - South has withdrawn from the race after receiving an illegal campaign contribution. Haley Wile was reprimanded by Alberta's Elect...