Category Archives: Canadian Press

CALGARY - An Alberta man is appealing his conviction and sentence for the murders of a father, the man’s two-year-old daughter and a woman. Derek Saretzky, 24, was convicted of three counts of f...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - They call it the Big One - a mythic, massive hurricane that would obliterate the densely populated southeast coast. And it has long been the stuff of Florida’s nightmares...

HOUSTON - Seven police officers and other emergency responders say they were sickened by a chemical fire at a storm-flooded plant outside Houston, according to a lawsuit they filed against the owner T...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Sixty-five years after Edmund Schreiber survived some of the bloodiest fighting of World War I, the Purple Heart Medal recipient was found strangled with his own neckties. Now, nearly ...

AUSTIN, Texas - Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday tapped a veteran Democrat to lead the state’s recovery effort after Harvey, which is shaping up to be among the costliest natural di...

WASHINGTON - With Republicans in Congress under pressure to deliver on taxes, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday the GOP plan will aim to reduce the corporate tax rate to low- to mid-20 per cent - ...

HOUSTON - Roiling waters in the streets have given way to festering piles of garbage on the curbs. Harvey’s record-setting rains created heaps of ruined possessions that now line entire neighbou...

A look at the impact of Hurricane Irma on individual countries and territories as it tears across the Caribbean: ANGUILLA One death was reported in the British territory of Anguilla, which also suffer...

MINEOLA, N.Y. - The family of a 16-year-old New York boy who died when a log fell on his head during a preseason high school football drill on Long Island has filed notice they intend to sue for $15 m...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is suggesting the federal government could take over the Port of Churchill as one way to help revive the subarctic town’s broken rail line and economy...