Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Two Albertans were named Canada’s newest astronauts Saturday as the country marked its 150th birthday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used the platform of waterlogged Canada Day celebrat...

TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs hope to have found answers to a few off-season needs on the first day of NHL free agency. The Leafs signed Ron Hainsey to upgrade their defence, Dominic Moore to prop...

WINNIPEG - Steve Mason is ready to be the Winnipeg Jets’ starting goaltender and a mentor to young netminder Connor Hellebuyck. The nine-year veteran signed a two-year deal with the Jets that pa...

ROME, N.Y. - Events celebrating the 200th anniversary of the start of the construction of the Erie Canal are kicking off this weekend. A seven-day bicentennial event with the Albany Symphony begins Su...

SALT LAKE CITY - A trendy downtown Salt Lake City seafood restaurant started business Saturday with glass-smashing and champagne, a symbolic gesture in its emancipation from Utah’s so-called ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The Latest on a shooting at a Little Rock nightclub (all times local): 10:20p.m. The landlord that owns the Little Rock nightclub where a shooting resulted in 28 people being injur...

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio - A city councilman in Ohio says he doesn’t regret his suggestion that emergency crews should stop saving people who repeatedly overdose. Middletown City Council member Dan Pica...

MADRID - Hundreds of thousands of people marched Saturday in a global gay pride demonstration in Madrid under tight security, and a parade of 52 floats took the festivities through the Spanish capital...

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jerseyans were feeling the impact as a state government shutdown took effect Saturday, shuttering parks and other public sites and disrupting ferry service to Liberty and Ellis isl...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Canucks were busy on the opening day of free agency Saturday, signing centre Sam Gagner to a US$9.45-million, three-year contract and defenceman Michael Del Zotto to a $6-mil...