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UPDATE – [4 p.m. Sept. 8] – The lockdown at Bowden Institution has ended and normal operations have resumed. — ORIGINAL Correctional Service Canada says a lockdown was put in place i...

Red Deer College is getting $205,000 per year for the next three years from the province to address mental health issues. The funding is to be used specifically for initiatives at RDC to assist studen...

WESTMINSTER, Vt. - John “Jack” Keil, the advertising executive who led the team that created McGruff the Crime Dog and who voiced the character, has died. Keil died Aug. 25 at home in West...

The CFL’s collective bargaining agreement won’t expire until just before the 2019 season, but there’s no doubt what the CFL Players’ Association’s top priority will be wh...

OTTAWA - The unfolding North Korean nuclear crisis is exposing Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government to international criticism that it is too soft on nuclear disarmament - and too close to the sa...

MONTREAL - A man suspected of using a drone to get drugs into the courtyard of a Montreal prison has been denied bail. Tyree Virgo, 46, has been in custody since his arrest Aug. 3. He was charged the ...

EDMONTON – Hepatitis A has been found in a sample of Western Family brand fresh pineapple chunks sold in ready-to-go cups announced Alberta Health Services on September 2. The cups were produced...

LETHBRIDGE - The anticipated guilty pleas in the case of Denzel Dre Colton Bird will have to wait a little longer, this time at the request of the Crown. Bird's lawyer, Tonii Roulston, appeared in Let...

VANCOUVER - Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau says income-tax reforms are needed because small business owners have an unfair advantage that could create two classes of Canadians for tax rates and...

VANCOUVER - Ranchers who have lost animals and land to devastating wildfires across British Columbia are getting help from the provincial and federal governments. The governments have announced $20 mi...