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DARTMOUTH, N.S. - Halifax police say they have no suspects in the killing of an 18-year-old woman found dying on a dark walkway this week. Spokeswoman Melissa MacInnis says investigators are asking fo...

While permit values remain down year-to-date, May was an exceptional month for them in Red Deer. Residential construction permits were valued at $5.8 million in May, surpassing the $3 million mark fro...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - A leader at one of Virginia’s largest mosques has resigned after the imam there made comments in support of female genital mutilation. Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, who was direct...

EDMONTON - Alberta’s Opposition leader says the government is attempting to whitewash the findings of two probes into the Fort McMurray wildfire disaster. Brian Jean, of the Wildrose party, says...

ATLANTA - Hours before a 17-year-old Alabama girl was killed in a bus crash, she wrote a final journal entry about her mission trip to Africa: “God has called me here and he’s done so for ...

DOHA, Qatar - The Arabic news network Al-Jazeera has been thrust into the centre of the story as Qatar came under virtual siege by its Gulf neighbours, pressuring it to shut down the channel that has ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia - Six-year-old Bosnian boy Ismail Zulfic was born without arms and with a deformed foot into a society that often neglects and marginalizes children with disabilities. But his parents...

NASHVILLE - The Nashville Predators’ improbable run to the Stanley Cup Finals has blurred the dividing line between music and sports, a convergence that’s expected to hit a crescendo in Te...

MONTREAL - Fraud cases resume later this month against several former SNC-Lavalin executives charged in relation to the company’s contract to build a $1.3-billion Montreal hospital, nearly five ...

A large contingent of fire chiefs are visiting Red Deer this weekend. From Saturday through Wednesday, 200 from across Alberta will gather at the Sheraton Hotel for the 70th annual Conference and Trad...