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BLACKFALDS- Mounties are investigating after someone flashed a knife at customers in a convenience store in Blackfalds. Police say it was at about 10:45 p.m. when a verbal altercation took place at th...

LONDON - Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his company’s decision not to ban right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his “Infowars” show, as many other social media platforms ha...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 08-08-2018

Seven stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 8 --- CANADA-SAUDI SPAT NOW ENVELOPS STUDENTS, TRAVELLERS The diplomatic row between Canada and Saudi Arabia is now sweeping up Saudi students and some tr...

BANGSAL, Indonesia - Aid began reaching isolated areas of the Indonesian island struggling after a powerful earthquake that killed more than 130 people as rescuers intensified efforts Wednesday to fin...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News host now in charge of the Miss America Organization, says the organization needs to heal a rift that has seen 20 state groups call for her a...

PORT HARDY, B.C. - Tourists staying at a lodge on a Vancouver Island were treated to a spectacular show when a group of humpback whales visited for breakfast. Marg Leehane, co-owner of Great Bear Lodg...

CALGARY - Ryan Straschnitzki spent an hour at his second home Tuesday. The 19-year-old Albertan, who was paralyzed from the chest down in a bus crash involving the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team,...

TORONTO - A new report urges the Ontario government to offer incentives to psychiatrists in order to make up for a shortage it says is contributing to a growing mental health crisis across the provinc...

MOSCOW - A Ukrainian filmmaker on hunger strike in a Russian prison has become increasingly frail and his condition has worsened considerably, his lawyer and his sister said. Wednesday marks the 87th ...