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World health officials are offering hope that the ebbing of the omicron wave could give way to a new, more manageable phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, even as they warn of difficult weeks ahead and the...

He caught his first largemouth bass at age five. Nineteen years later, Cooper Gallant is aiming to join the world's top professional bass circuit. The articulate 24-year-old from Bowmanville, Ont., is...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government is granting heritage status to the core of Montreal's Chinatown district to protect its historic buildings from redevelopment. Culture Minister Nathalie Roy made the a...

Two youth are facing charges following an assault outside a Sylvan Lake business last week.On Jan. 20, Sylvan Lake RCMP received a complaint from a concerned citizen of an assault which took place dur...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) - More than a dozen mutinous soldiers declared Monday on state television that a military junta now controls Burkina Faso after they detained the democratically elected ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) - The six people found dead in a Milwaukee home apparently had been shot, police said Monday. The victims had injuries that are suspected to have been caused by gunfire, Milwaukee Polic...

CALGARY - A judge has found a Calgary man who admitted to murdering his former girlfriend guilty of killing her daughter as well. Robert Leeming had pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Jasmi...

Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, with eight MVPs and seven Cy Young Awards between them, are in the bottom of the last inning in their Hall of Fame bids. Either they get in Tuesday - and it's going to b...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The federal trial for three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights as Derek Chauvin pinned the Black man's neck to the street bega...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut has become the latest jurisdiction to sign onto the federal government's $10-a-day child-care program. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the $66-million deal virtually...