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NEW YORK - Suicide is such a constant concern at federal jails that guards have ready access to "the stick," a wooden pole with a sharpened blade at the end that's used to cut down inmates if they try...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Los Angeles Opera declined Friday to release any details of its promised investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against opera legend Placido Domingo, the company's lon...

CALGARY - The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police won't be supporting a call for a ban on handguns despite concerns about gun violence in a number of major cities including Toronto. Vancouve...

NEW YORK - Paule Marshall, an exuberant and sharpened storyteller who in fiction such as "Daughters" and "Brown Girl, Brownstones" drew upon classic and vernacular literature and her mother's kitchen ...

VANCOUVER - Bill Konyk, a legendary Vancouver businessman who fought a human rights battle to maintain his nickname Hunky Bill, has died. He was 88. His youngest son, Mark Konyk, says his da...

VANCOUVER - Bill Konyk, a legendary Vancouver businessman who fought a human rights battle to maintain his nickname Hunky Bill, has died. He was 88. His youngest son, Mark Konyk, says his da...

PRINCE GEORGE-A transit service expansion will hit the streets of Prince George this fall, and the new expansion means new transit rates.Fare rates are set to go up on September 1, 2019, with the expa...

STE-MARTHE-SUR-LE-LAC, Que. - Four months after a dike ruptured and forced 6,000 people from the town of Ste-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, demolition work has begun on flood-stricken homes in the community west ...

TORONTO - Captain Michael Bradley can appreciate why it may look like desperate times for his Toronto FC squad. Toronto faces the Crew on Saturday in Columbus, where the Reds will be trying for a vita...

TORONTO - Bo Bichette knows where he stands in his chase for history. The Blue Jays 21-year-old rookie shortstop claims he's not thinking too much about his career-opening on-base streak that reached ...