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Blackfalds town council has approved its operating budget.It comes in at $31.313 million, a shave lower than the $31.32 it was proposed as last month.With that, there will be a 4.7 per cent tax increa...

BANFF, AB - An Alberta mountain town has passed a bylaw banning smoking and vaping in most public places.The bylaw in Banff, which comes into effect in February, prohibits tobacco smoking and vaping i...

VUOKATTI, Finland - Collin Cameron of Bracebridge, Ont., and Natalie Wilkie of Salmon Arm, B.C., both earned silver medals as Canada won four medals on Wednesday at a Para-Nordic World Cup event. Came...

WASHINGTON - The fusion ignition breakthrough that has experts hailing a new dawn in the search for clean energy took a lot of help from around the world - including Canada. Researchers at the Univers...

Chiefs from Treaty 6 territory say they are meeting for the first time today with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.The chiefs say in a statement that the meeting was scheduled before Smith became premie...

The Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton is set to be one of four sites across Canada, and the only site in Western Canada, to provide a new gene therapy for a rare eye condition.Luxturna helps to tre...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is beefing up Canada's embassy staffing in Haiti to work closer with security officials. Trudeau announced that change after a high-level meeting on Tuesday with...

LIMA, Peru (AP) - Peru's new government imposed a police state on Wednesday in response to violent protests following the ouster of President Pedro Castillo. The 30-day national emergency declaration ...

AMBR, Switzerland - Forward Alex Formenton has signed a one-year contract with HC Ambri-Piotta in the Swiss League after the restricted free agent failed to sign a new deal with the Ottawa Senators. F...

VANCOUVER - Illinois running back Chase Brown has been awarded the Jon Cornish Trophy as the top Canadian in NCAA football. Brown was second in the NCAA and first in the Power Five conference with 1,6...