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LOS ANGELES - California became the first state to record 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases, reaching the milestone on Christmas Eve as close to the entire state was under a strict stay-at-home or...

DANVILLE, Va. - A former "Survivor" contestant has been charged in Virginia with grand larceny, authorities said. Jonny Fairplay, who while competing on the show in 2003 became known for orchestrating...

FREDERICTON - Quebec's police watchdog has completed its investigation into the New Brunswick police-involved killing of Chantel Moore, a 26-year-old Indigenous woman. The watchdog, known as the Burea...

WILLIAMS LAKE - A major milestone has been reached in the expansion and renovation project at Cariboo Memorial Hospital in Williams Lake. The provincial government has shortlisted three companies as q...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Another new variant of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, Africa's top public health official said Thursday, but further investigation is needed. "It's a separate lin...

KARACHI, Pakistan - A provincial court in Pakistan on Thursday ordered the man charged in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl freed, his defence lawyer said. The Sindh High Court's rel...

CALGARY - A world-famous annual rodeo that survived the Great Depression, two world wars and a devastating flood seven years ago was felled by a microscopic virus this year and will have a different l...

Advocates say inmates should have speedy access to the COVID-19 vaccine, given how susceptible prisons and jails have been to outbreaks and how prevalent chronic disease is in that population. "I don'...

CALGARY - A world-famous annual rodeo that survived the Great Depression, two world wars and a devastating flood seven years ago was felled by a microscopic virus this year and will have a different l...

VANCOUVER - On a small island in British Columbia's Fraser River is a campsite packed with Canadian snowbirds who found refuge when the border with the United States was shut because of the COVID-19 p...