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LONDON - U.S. President Donald Trump says his country's legislators have to ratify the new North American free-trade deal before Mexico and Canada lose interest in finalizing it. He and Prime Minister...

OTTAWA - A new study says recent immigrants who are seniors when they arrive in this country are far less likely to live in poverty if they have access to federal old-age benefits. To qualify for...

OTTAWA - The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is calling on the federal government to make up a national suicide-prevention strategy for young people, with a suicide crisis grippin...

EDMONTON - Alberta's top court is dismissing the province's appeal of a ruling that disallowed a program intended to promote sales of local craft beers. But the Court of Appeal tossed out an earlier j...

WINNIPEG - A report from the Manitoba Police Commission says the province should consider enhanced security cameras, a crackdown on panhandlers and other measures to improve safety in downto...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge School Division (LSD) and Holy Spirit Catholic School Division (HSC) are pleading city council to reconsider their decision to no longer partner with the schools on bus...

A Ponoka meat business suffered a devastating loss over the weekend as its slaughterhouse was destroyed by fire.Ponoka County Regional Fire Chief Dennis Jones says crews were dispatched the slaughterh...

The sokwin Friendship Centre, formerly the Rocky Native Friendship Centre Society, recently learned they are set to lose important funding from the province. "We will be losing two programs March 31, ...

MEDICINE HAT, AB - If you see emergency crews at the Medicine Hat Regional Airport on Tuesday, there is nothing to be worried about.A simulated emergency exercise will be taking place at the airport t...

Medicine Hat, AB - Six months after first being brought up at city council, Medicine Hat now has a bylaw in place to ban the sale of fireworks within the city.The final reading went through Monday nig...