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EDMONTON – The Alberta Party says its membership numbers have grown substantially since it announced a leadership race last March. Back then there were 1,024 card-carrying members. Party preside...

TORONTO - Besieged pop-rockers Hedley faced a barrage of more bad news Friday as they were dropped by their management team, abandoned by other musicians opening for them on their cross-Canada tour an...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio man has been convicted of beating a 14-month-old boy to death and tossing his body into a creek with the help of the child’s mother. The woman told jurors that 27-year-o...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government is changing course on a controversial policy and will now allow parents to accompany their sick children on emergency air evacuations. Health Minister Gaetan Barrette ...

EDMONTON- The RCMP and and the Alberta Provincial Rural Crime Watch Association have signed a memorandum of understanding which outlines the roles each organization will play in keeping rural communit...

PARKLAND, Fla. - The FBI received a tip last month that the suspect in the Florida school shooting had a “desire to kill” and access to guns and could be plotting an attack, but agents fai...

LOS ANGELES - “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, “Girls Trip” breakout star Tiffany Haddish, “Lady Bird” author Greta Gerwig and “The Big Sick” co-w...

Family Day events will be popping up around Drayton Valley on Monday for citizens to take part in. Activities will be running on the 19th from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. with shuttles running every 20 minutes t...

WASHINGTON - As badly as things have gone for immigration legislation in the Senate, it’s not looking any easier in the more conservative House. Republican leaders there are scrambling to find e...

BEIRUT - One-month-old Heyim Hassan was receiving treatment for a chest infection in the Afrin general hospital in northern Syria when a shell landed a few meters (feet) away. His panicked father whis...