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HOUSTON - Officials said Tuesday that they’re not sure when a fire at a Houston-area petrochemicals storage facility will burn itself out, but they are confident that the air quality is safe, de...

MONTREAL - A Transportation Safety Board of Canada investigator says a ferry that has been removed from service in Quebec after two recent collisions was already badly damaged before the accidents. Th...

OTTAWA - The Senate’s ethics officer says Sen. Lynn Beyak violated the upper chamber’s conflict-of-interest code by posting racist letters about Indigenous people on her website. Pierre Le...

Retail crime prevention will be the focus of a special event in Red Deer next month. The third annual Alberta Retail Crime Prevention Summit will be held Apr. 24 at the Sheraton Hotel featuring guest ...

Mark Casse is comfortable heading to the US$1-million Louisiana Derby with a bull’s eye firmly on his back. The Casse-trained War of Will is the early 6-5 favourite for the 1 1/8-mile race, whic...

MARKHAM, Ont. - A five-year-old girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert north of Toronto on Tuesday was found safe after a few hours. York regional police said the girl’s father was taken int...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s coroners service says fewer people fatally overdosed on illicit drugs in January but the number of deaths believed to have been caused by carfentanil more than qua...

SAN FRANCISCO - A jury in federal court in San Francisco has concluded that Roundup weed killer was a substantial factor in a California man’s cancer. The unanimous verdict on Tuesday came in a ...

MONTREAL - The CWHL’s leading scorer is questionable to play in Sunday’s Clarkson Cup. Les Canadiennes de Montreal forward Marie-Philip Poulin is said to be day-to-day with a lower-body in...

MONTREAL - Morrie Tobin, the Montreal native named in reports as the central figure who exposed an alleged college admissions scam in the United States, was described Tuesday by those who knew him as ...