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CALGARY - Matthew Ayre was transcribing logbooks from British whaling ships in March when he became intrigued by entries describing a whaler that wrecked off the east coast of Baffin Island early in t...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A massive oil refinery blast shook this historic port city Monday, sending flames and black smoke high into the sky but causing only four minor injuries - and leaving officials reli...

The Town of Ponoka wants citizens to share their thoughts and ideas on what's working and what improvements can be made to Ponoka's transportation infrastructure and how people move around the communi...

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - Former first daughter Barbara Bush has gotten married. Her father, former President George W. Bush, escorted his daughter down the aisle while her grandfather, former President ...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Vancouver Police Museum They call it an arresting experience. See-it's a pun. Because it's a police museum. And it's got a ton of crazy stuff there, li...

RANKIN INLET, Nunavut - A man has been charged with murder in the death of a 12-year-old boy from Nunavut following a 15-month investigation. Searchers found the body of Ray Taparti Jr., who also went...

HALIFAX - The trial of a British sailor accused in a gang rape at a Halifax-area military base continues Tuesday, after testimony from a young woman who described a harrowing scene of being virtually ...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Police say they’ve found five of the seven vintage guitars that were allegedly stolen from rock band 54-40. Investigators in New Westminster, B.C., say they were called a...

STOCKHOLM - Just a day after a United Nations panel called for urgent action on climate change, the Nobel Prize in economics was awarded Monday to one American researcher for his work on the economics...

WASHINGTON - Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an internation...