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WHITEHORSE - Yukon Premier Sandy Silver says he will not seek another term as MLA for Klondike, and has asked the Yukon Liberal Party to initiate proceedings to select a new leader. Silver says he'll ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball adopted its first pitch clock, limits on defensive shifts and larger bases for next season in an effort to shorten games and increase offense in a tradition-bound...

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Elks could have an infamous date with CFL history Saturday night. But the prospect of losing a CFL-record-tying 14th home game in a row isn't at the front of their minds. The E...

CALGARY - Canada's Olympic bobsled champion Justin Kripps is becoming a coach. The 35-year-old from Summerland, B.C., is joining the national bobsled team as the program's new technical coach. The mov...

VANCOUVER - Haze from wildfires burning in Washington state, Idaho and the British Columbia Interior is expected to create smoky skies across much of southern B.C. over the weekend. Environment Canada...

WINNIPEG - A massive painting of the Queen that was once a fixture during hockey games and concerts in Winnipeg may soon be on public display again. The painting's owner, Ron D'Errico, says he plans o...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Former Miss America Cara Mund has qualified to appear on the November ballot as an independent candidate for North Dakota's sole U.S. House seat, the secretary of state's office ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee man accused of killing four people and wounding three others in a livestreamed shooting rampage that paralyzed Memphis and led to a city-wide manhunt was granted a pu...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A Michigan election board placed an abortion-rights proposal on the fall ballot Friday, obeying an order from the state's highest court and closing a record-breaking petition dri...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog says conditions at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant are increasingly precarious and a safety zone around it needs to be established ...