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MONTREAL - If Quebec’s biggest chain of convenience stores has its way, customers will eventually be able to buy cannabis along with their chips, beer and cigarettes. Alimentation Couche-Tard ha...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - The father of a man charged with killing three people including a two-year-old girl says his son told him she was in heaven. Derek Saretzky, 24, is on trial in Lethbridge, Alta., o...

Despite the tight economic squeeze Special Olympics Red Deer continues to grow. For the first time, the local affiliate has more than 300 athletes competing in 12 different programs, making it the lar...

PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - Dennis Rodman, the former NBA bad boy who has palled around with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, flew to Pyongyang on Tuesday on a trip he sa...

WASHINGTON - It may not be necessary to expand a ban on laptops and other large electronics in the cabins of many international flights into the United States right now, Homeland Security Secretary Jo...

KINGS POINT, N.Y. - The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy is not permitting seven members of the men’s soccer team to graduate with their class this weekend amid an investigation into possible sexual...

RED DEER- Area employers expect to do a little hiring in the third quarter of 2017, according to the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey. Data shows that 10 per cent of employers plan to hi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Verizon has taken over Yahoo, completing a $4.5 billion deal that will usher in a new management team to attempt to wring more advertising revenue from one of the internet’s best...

ERIN, Wis. - Remember last year, when Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson played a round for the ages, trading birdies and spectacular shots until Stenson finally came away with the British Open title? ...

NEW YORK - NBC News is moving ahead with plans to air Megyn Kelly’s interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones this weekend despite a backlash that has cost the show advertisers and led to Ke...