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Conservationists: Imperiled Atlantic salmon decline worsens
BANGOR, Maine - Fewer of North America’s Atlantic salmon are making it back to rivers to spawn, which bodes poorly for the future of the imperiled fish, an international conservation group says....
Jun 18, 2017
Canada's fed-prov finance ministers to start deep dive on marijuana taxation
OTTAWA - As the country’s finance ministers meet in Ottawa, the Trudeau government should expect to hear concerns about the added burden marijuana legalization could heap onto provincial shoulde...
Jun 18, 2017
De Grasse runs blistering - but wind-aided - 9.69 to win in Stockholm
A stiff breeze may have kept sprint star Andre De Grasse from a Canadian record. But with his blistering victory in the 100 metres at the Diamond League meet in Stockholm on Sunday, the 22-year-old fr...
Jun 18, 2017
Jury finds Halifax medical student guilty of first-degree murder
HALIFAX - The mother of a slain university student says she’ll keep searching for her son’s body, with or without the help of his killer. William Sandeson, a Halifax medical student, was f...
Jun 18, 2017
Dinosaur skull discovering in northeastern B.C. a first in the province
TUMBLER RIDGE, B.C. - A piece of dinosaur skull unearthed in northeastern British Columbia earlier this month is the first of its kind discovered in the province, an expert says. The fossilized tyrann...
Jun 18, 2017
Vegas Golden Knights play long game at NHL expansion draft, focus on future
The Vegas Golden Knights played the long game in constructing the base of their first very NHL roster. Knights general manager George McPhee went heavy on defenders and short on high-end help in selec...
Jun 18, 2017
High River finishes rebuilding but abandoned neighbourhood reminder of flood
HIGH RIVER, Alta. - Even as High River finishes rebuilding, an abandoned neighbourhood full of million-dollar homes is a stark reminder of devastating flooding four years ago. Floods in parts of south...
Jun 18, 2017
The Latest: Portugal raises death toll back to 62
LISBON, Portugal - The Latest on the Portugal forest fires (all times local): 11:55 p.m. Portuguese Interior Minister Constanca Urbano de Sousa said the death toll in a forest fire had risen to 62 by ...
Jun 18, 2017
New Nova Scotia gold rush: Miners seek riches in tiny flecks of precious metal
MOOSE RIVER GOLD MINES, NOVA SCOTIA, Canada - Amid the dull claystone of a tube-shaped sample of rock, the gleaming, pulse-quickening swirl of gold is unmistakable. “It’s quite a special s...
Jun 18, 2017
Leaping into water tanks to escape Portugal's deadly fires
NODEIRINHO, Portugal - Survivors emerged Monday with stories of leaping into water tanks and other dramatic escapes from the forest fires scorching central Portugal, and authorities came under mountin...
Jun 18, 2017