Category Archives: Canadian Press

ATLANTA - Singer Bobby Brown will receive a proclamation to build a domestic violence shelter in Atlanta in honour of his late daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown. City of South Fulton Mayor Bill Edwards a...

HALIFAX - Dave Innes was a strapping 18-year-old gunner with the Canadian Airborne Regiment when he broke his back in five places. Training for a deployment to war-torn Bosnia in April 1990, the young...

Earlier this month, the RCMP threw a retirement party in St. John’s, N.L., for a Labrador retriever named Luke. As the saying goes, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, and as cannabis l...

HALIFAX - Hockey superstar Sidney Crosby may not be bringing the Stanley Cup home to Nova Scotia again this year, but he will still take centre stage at a unique event celebrating the province’s...

NEW YORK - Live Nation says Demi Lovato’s concert on Thursday on the Atlantic City, New Jersey, beach has been cancelled. Lovato’s representative said Tuesday she was awake and recovering ...

CALGARY - The face of the Calgary Flames for over a decade and a half is returning to the city to end his NHL career. Jarome Iginla will officially announce his retirement Monday in Calgary, the Flame...

LAC BROME, Que. - Quebec’s police watchdog continued on Wednesday to probe the circumstances that led Quebec provincial police to fatally shoot an armed teenage boy in a town southeast of Montre...

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Ten more satellites for Iridium Communications have been successfully launched into orbit. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif...

WASHINGTON - Sales of new U.S. homes tumbled 5.3 per cent in June and the median sales price also slipped, a potentially ominous sign for the U.S. housing market. The Commerce Department said Wednesda...

OTTAWA - The American wife of former overseas hostage Joshua Boyle has reportedly left Canada and returned to the U.S. with the couple’s children, nearly six years after being abducted while bac...