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WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg high school hopes that teaching its students about the Holocaust will help put a stop to a recent spate of anti-Semitic bullying. Ted Fransen, superintendent with the Pembina Tra...

WASHINGTON - Republican Congressman Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, leader of an influential caucus of GOP moderates in the House, announced Thursday he will not seek re-election to an eighth House term...

TALLAHASSSEE, Fla. - Two well-known Florida conservatives have vastly different reactions to the pending arrival of Hurricane Irma. For the last three days, Florida Gov. Rick Scott has sounded the ala...

LAS VEGAS - Police in this tourist-driven city with a history of racially charged incidents were hit again Thursday with questions about bias, profiling and use of force after a black NFL player repor...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s minority NDP government is set to table a throne speech outlining its political blueprint after months of tension, upheaval and backroom machinations following a sp...

Red Deer and District Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) is in urgent need for volunteers. Currently there are over 90 children in Red Deer and District in need of a mentor through BBBS. Across the count...

SEATTLE - Grandparents, cousins and similarly close relations of people in the United States should not be prevented from coming to the country under President Donald Trump’s travel ban, a feder...

CALGARY - An Alberta man is appealing his conviction and sentence for the murders of a father, the man’s two-year-old daughter and a woman. Derek Saretzky, 24, was convicted of three counts of f...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - They call it the Big One - a mythic, massive hurricane that would obliterate the densely populated southeast coast. And it has long been the stuff of Florida’s nightmares...

HOUSTON - Seven police officers and other emergency responders say they were sickened by a chemical fire at a storm-flooded plant outside Houston, according to a lawsuit they filed against the owner T...