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PRINCE GEORGE - The schools all over town are quiet right now, but that won't be the case on Tuesday morning when the kids are back in school for half a day to start. It means motorists in particular ...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Police say seven people are in hospital after an explosion at a refinery in Come By Chance, N.L., about 150 kilometres west of St. John's. RCMP Cpl. Jolene Garland said earlier in t...

EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney is defending Alberta's lieutenant-governor after she suggested she may not automatically pass a sovereignty act bill proposed by a candidates vying to replace him as Un...

QUADRA ISLAND - A pod of orcas surprised a group of friends visiting Quadra Island, B.C., last weekend, appearing metres from where they stood on the shoreline of Moulds Bay. Erika van Sittert, who ca...

TORONTO - Time and the MLS schedule are not on Toronto FC's side as Bob Bradley's retooled team looks to make a late-season charge. And CF Montreal would no doubt like nothing more than to derail TFC'...

PRINCE GEORGE - The BC Construction Association has received over $21 million in funding from the Government of Canada's Apprenticeship Service to enable small and medium-sized employers in BC's const...

VICTORIA - The union representing the majority of 60-thousand B-C hospital and long-term care workers says a tentative agreement has been reached with the Hospital Employers Association of B-C after 6...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka's former president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country in July after tens of thousands of protesters stormed his home and office in a display of anger over th...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - As Argentina's powerful Vice President Cristina Fernndez stepped from her car outside her apartment building and began shaking hands with a throng of a well-wishers, a m...

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers have signed defenceman Ryan Murray to a one-year contract worth US$750,000. Murray appeared in 37 games for the Colorado Avalanche last season and recorded four assists....