Category Archives: Canadian Press

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Georgia’s governor on Thursday ordered nearly 540,000 coastal residents to evacuate inland ahead of Hurricane Irma as authorities warned the storm had the potential to strike as ...

REGINA - Defending champion Val Sweeting needed an extra end to remain undefeated and secure a spot in the playoffs at the Tour Challenge. The Edmonton skip scored a single in the ninth end to edge Sc...

TORONTO - Search crews say they have found a test model of the Avro Arrow, an advanced Canadian fighter jet that was controversially scrapped in 1959, on the floor of Lake Ontario. OEX Recovery Group,...

CALGARY - The future of the Energy East pipeline has been thrown into question after TransCanada Corp. announced it wants to suspend for now its application to build the $15.7-billion project. In a st...

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg high school hopes that teaching its students about the Holocaust will help put a stop to a recent spate of anti-Semitic bullying. Ted Fransen, superintendent with the Pembina Tra...

WASHINGTON - Republican Congressman Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, leader of an influential caucus of GOP moderates in the House, announced Thursday he will not seek re-election to an eighth House term...

TALLAHASSSEE, Fla. - Two well-known Florida conservatives have vastly different reactions to the pending arrival of Hurricane Irma. For the last three days, Florida Gov. Rick Scott has sounded the ala...

LAS VEGAS - Police in this tourist-driven city with a history of racially charged incidents were hit again Thursday with questions about bias, profiling and use of force after a black NFL player repor...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s minority NDP government is set to table a throne speech outlining its political blueprint after months of tension, upheaval and backroom machinations following a sp...

SEATTLE - Grandparents, cousins and similarly close relations of people in the United States should not be prevented from coming to the country under President Donald Trump’s travel ban, a feder...