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Hong Kong protesters stream past designated endpoint
Hong Kong protesters ignored police warnings and streamed past the designated endpoint for a rally Saturday in the latest of a series of demonstrations targeting the government of the semi-autonomous ...
Aug 03, 2019
Justin Trudeau seeks to highlight climate policy in visit to Canada's Far North
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau injected a dose of electoral politics into an announcement Thursday in Canada's Far North, taking aim at his Conservative rival while unveili...
Aug 03, 2019
In the news today, August 1
Five stories in the news for Thursday, August 1 --- CANADA NOT CONSULTED ABOUT U.S. DRUG PLAN Federal officials say Ottawa was not consulted in advance about the details of a ...
Aug 03, 2019
Manitoba manhunt shows lack of resources for missing Indigenous women: advocates
WINNIPEG - Helicopters and a specialized military aircraft scoured from the air while armed police took to the ground over northern Manitoba in a hunt for two suspects of murders in British Columbia. ...
Aug 03, 2019
Mavs secure playoff berth, top Giants 6-4
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Make it back-to-back victories for the Medicine Hat Mavericks.Freddy Walker and Colling Klingensmith each batted in two runs, helping the reigning league champions capture a 6-4 vic...
Aug 03, 2019 File
Evacuation order lifted for Irvine
Irvine, AB - Cypress County has officially lifted the evacuation order for the hamlet of Irvine and a seven kilometre radius of the community. The hamlet was evacuated for nearly eight hours after a C...
Aug 02, 2019 A train derailment near Irvine is pictured Friday afternoon (submitted by Geoff Watson)
Correction: Immigration-Separating Families story
NEW YORK - In a July 31 story about the separation of children and parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, The Associated Press misspelled the name of an advocate with the Chicago-based National Immigrant ...
Aug 02, 2019
Ronaldo loses bid to dismiss or fully seal Vegas rape case
LAS VEGAS - Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has lost a bid for dismissal or complete secrecy in a federal lawsuit by a Nevada woman who accuses him of raping her at a Las Vegas resort in 2009. Attorney ...
Aug 02, 2019
1 killed as cliff collapses on popular California beach
ENCINITAS, Calif. - A woman was killed and four people were injured - two critically- after a cliff collapsed on a popular Southern California beach Friday, authorities said. The sandstone bluff gave ...
Aug 02, 2019
Highway 1 open to through traffic
CYPRESS COUNTY, AB -- Highway 1 is now open in both directions between the Hamlet of Walsh and Highway 41 north for through traffic only.The mandatory evacuation of Irvine remains in effect, so access...
Aug 02, 2019