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CARDRONA, New Zealand - Canada’s Cassie Sharpe won gold at the first FIS freestyle World Cup event of the season on Friday in the women’s snowboard halfpipe. Sharpe, from Calgary, had 91.0...

CALGARY - Kevin Sutherland made the most of an early start at the Canyon Meadows Golf and Country Club on Friday. Sutherland was in the second group out on the back nine of the par-70, 7,086-yard cour...

CANMORE, Alta. - It wasn’t the best call Bear 164 has ever made, but this time the hefty grizzly just out of his teenage years got lucky. Traffic was whizzing along the Trans-Canada Highway east...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau says he’s paying attention to the growing dissent over his government’s controversial plan to eliminate tax incentives that he insists only benefit wealthy small bu...

NEW YORK - Toronto pitcher Luis Pena and New York Mets pitcher Jose Sierra have been suspended for violating baseball’s minor league drug program. Pena was banned for 72 games Friday following a...

VANCOUVER - Veteran forward Thomas Vanek and the Vancouver Canucks agreed to a one-year contract on Friday worth US$2 million. The 33-year-old Vanek had 17 goals and 31 assists in 68 games split betwe...

SASKATOON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he respects the decision of Calgary MP Darshan Kang to step away from the Liberal caucus while sexual harassment allegations against him are investigated...

Only three weeks remain of what's been another eventful summer in central Alberta. Here is some food for thought on what went down in August. 1) The month began with news of the bovine variety - and n...

Red Deer RCMP is sending out a reminder to drivers to pay attention to posted speed limits as many Red Deer children returned to school this week. On Friday morning, Mounties issued 17 tickets to spee...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact are anticipating a slumping Chicago Fire team to be more dangerous and unpredictable than the last time these teams met. The Impact host Chicago at Saputo Stadium in Maj...