Category Archives: Canadian Press

White nationalists have been parsing President Donald Trump’s words since a deadly attack at a Virginia rally over the weekend. A day after the president called them “criminals and thugs,&...

VICTORIA - Government help may be on the way for farmers and ranchers hard hit by wildfires that have charred more than 8,450 square kilometres of timber, range and farmland in British Columbia. Feder...

GOULDS, N.L. - The chase for the elusive ace of spades will continue next week at a church on the outskirts of St. John’s, N.L., with nine cards on the table. Thousands converged on St. Kevin...

Republican lawmakers in six states have pushed this year for legal protections for motorists who hit protesters blocking traffic. Fairly or not, they’re facing an intense backlash now that viole...

AUSTIN, Texas - A Texas version of a North Carolina-style “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people again sputtered out. Chances of any last-minute deals extinguished when the House adj...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - The scene was all too familiar: Islamic extremists striking a popular dining spot while dozens of patrons, many of them foreigners, took a break from daily life in Burkina ...

SAN FRANCISCO - More than 60 stories above the ground, construction workers climb makeshift stairs and cross narrow steel planks to put the finishing touches on Salesforce Tower, now San FranciscoR...

PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba - Calle Marti is a modest half-mile boulevard split by a simple winding flagstone path that’s bracketed by green grass, pine trees and curving blue cement benches. But the pr...

BEIJING - In a ritual of summer, China’s leaders have been holding an unofficial retreat at a beach resort ahead of a key fall Communist Party congress at which President Xi Jinping will launch ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Hawa Stevens spoke through tears of the 28 family members she lost after surging mudslides and floodwaters swept through Sierra Leone’s capital, killing hundreds and lea...