Category Archives: Canadian Press

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela’s pro-government constitutional assembly took over the powers of the opposition-led congress Friday, dramatically escalating a standoff between President Nicolas M...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Newfoundland shipping firm is raising its fees, blaming higher costs because of federal measures taken to protect North Atlantic right whales after a series of deaths. Ocean...

OTTAWA - The environmental arm of NAFTA is demanding Canada explain what it is doing to stop oilsands tailings ponds from leaking into Alberta waterways. The request comes in a decision by the commiss...

NEW YORK - Another presidential advisory committee appears to be breaking up. Actor Kal Penn, artist Chuck Close and the entire membership of the President’s Committee On the Arts and Humanities...

HAMILTON - Police in Hamilton say 80 people are facing charges in a drug trafficking and firearms investigation. They say the operation - dubbed Project Phoenix - began in July and saw 44 search warra...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - British Columbia has extended a provincewide state of emergency because of wildfires that have scorched a record amount of land this season. Chris Duffy of Emergency Management BC sai...

Dozens of children died last week in a decrepit government hospital in northeastern India, prompting public outcry over whether an oxygen shortage was to blame. Answers remain unclear, but doctors who...

FREDERICTON - A review of a devastating ice storm in northeast New Brunswick says many residents were ill-prepared for an emergency - and some responded to the crisis with fear and suspicion that put ...

COLEBROOK, N.H. - About 100 people, including two dozen law enforcement officers, gathered on Friday to remember two state troopers who were killed decades ago in one of the region’s worst shoot...

COPENHAGEN - The family of a Swedish journalist missing since a trip off Copenhagen a week ago on a home-built submarine says “it seems the worst has happened.” The parents and brother of ...