Category Archives: Canadian Press

KEY LARGO, Fla. - Hurricane Irma’s size and strength put the entire state of Florida on notice Tuesday, and residents and visitors prepared to leave in anticipation of catastrophic winds and flo...

LOS ANGELES - Scientists assessing long-term efforts to eradicate invasive ants on the Channel Islands off the Southern California coast have enlisted a four-legged expert to make sure a project to ki...

WATERTON, Alta. - Parks Canada issued a precautionary evacuation alert on Tuesday evening for all of Waterton Lakes National Park in southern Alberta due to potential danger from an expanding wildfire...

SHERMAN, Texas - An arbitrator denied Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott’s appeal of a six-game suspension in a domestic violence case Tuesday, but the 2016 NFL rushing champion will play in th...

CALGARY - A 38-year-old disabled woman who died while under the care of her 70-year-old mother had not received medical treatment for the last four years of her life and weighed just over 50 pounds wh...

SAN DIEGO - The son of Mexican mariachi superstar Pepe Aguilar has been sentenced to time served after being arrested at a U.S.-Mexico border crossing on allegations of attempting to smuggle four Chin...

GERALDTON, Ont. - The mother of Chanie Wenjack, the 12-year-old boy who died while trying to escape an Ontario residential school in 1966, has died. The Nishnawbe Aski Nation says Agnes Wenjack, 89, d...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Tuesday joined friend and ex-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s effort to overhaul partisan political map-making that’s helped fuel their own...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Rick Stevens, the former lead singer of Oakland’s Tower of Power rhythm and blues band who spent 36 years in prison, has died. He was 77. KTVU-TV reported (http://bit.ly/2gEsIV...

SURREY, B.C. - The focus for the B.C. Lions’ secondary coming into this season was improving on last year’s CFL-low nine interceptions. The unit has already eclipsed that mark in 2017, but...