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EDMONTON – Albertans are being asked to provide feedback on what students should learn as part of the government's second curriculum survey. Last fall, Albertans provided their feedback on the c...

STETTLER- Botha residents have voted to dissolve the village of Botha to become a hamlet of the County of Stettler. Residents voted 91 per cent, or 52 out of 57 votes, in favour of the move. The Minis...

WASHINGTON - American industry expanded production last month at the fastest pace in more than three years as manufacturers and mines recovered from a March downturn. The Federal Reserve said Tuesday ...

NEW YORK - As danger from a global cyberattack that hit some 150 nations continues to fade, analysts are starting to assess the damage. Hard-hit organizations such as the U.K.’s National Health ...

HALIFAX - Two years after an Air Canada jet crash-landed in a blizzard at Halifax’s airport, injuring 25 people, the results of a Transportation Safety Board investigation will be released Thurs...

The Philadelphia Flyers showed the hockey world what a No. 1 defenceman meant in July 2012 when they signed then-Nashville Predators defenceman Shea Weber to a spectacular 14-year offer sheet worth US...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Police are cautioning bystanders against intervening in crimes after an eastern Newfoundland man was injured tackling a teenager accused of armed robbery. The Royal Newfoundla...

TORONTO - Jagmeet Singh is stepping down as deputy leader of the Ontario NDP while he runs for the federal party’s leadership, but he’s not resigning his seat in the provincial legislature...

LACOMBE – Lacombe County has approved the 2017 operating and capital budgets and tax rate bylaw. Municipal tax rates will increase by 1% this year for residential, farmland and non-residential p...

WASHINGTON - The presidents of the United States and Turkey vowed Tuesday to repair a relationship battered by years of disputes over Syria’s civil war and its various fighting groups, even as t...