Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - More Americans applied for jobless aid last week. Despite the small increase, the number of people seeking benefits remained close to historic lows. THE NUMBERS: Weekly unemployment appli...

BOISE, Idaho - A group that represents farmers is calling the costs of saving imperiled salmon in the largest river system in the Pacific Northwest unsustainable and is turning to the Trump administra...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A court in Cambodia on Thursday sentenced a political analyst to 18 months in prison on the basis of a criminal complaint by Prime Minister Hun Sen that he had defamed him in a ...

WASHINGTON - Prices at the wholesale level dipped slightly in July, the first decline in 11 months and further evidence that inflation remains a no-show in the economy. The Labor Department says its p...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and his cabinet often avoid talking about the science of climate change, but when pressed what they have said clashes with established mainstream science, data and ...

SALT LAKE CITY - An emerging debate about whether elected officials violate people’s free speech rights by blocking them on social media is spreading across the U.S. as groups sue or warn politi...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas highway officials shut down westbound lanes of a cross-country interstate for four hours so crews could pick up pizza. An 18-wheeler containing DiGiorno and Tombstone froz...

TORONTO - Relatives of a Canadian pastor released this week after more than two years in a North Korean prison said Thursday he is “on his way home” and they are anxious to be reunited wit...

MONTREAL - Many Coldplay fans in Montreal hoping to catch their final show in the city Wednesday night were turned away, the victims of an apparent online fake ticket scam. City police said Thursday t...

HALIFAX - A hefty reward helped crack the cold-case deaths of two Halifax men at a burned-out camp outside the city, RCMP said Thursday. Elmer Percy Higgins, 65, and Karen Marie Higgins, 49, face char...