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An evacuation order has been lifted for the community of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., nine days after more than 2,000 residents were forced out by an encroaching wildfire. More coming The Canadian Press

An evacuation order has been lifted for the community of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., nine days after more than 2,000 residents were forced out by an encroaching wildfire. More coming The Canadian Press

OSLO - Canada's Sarah Mitton won gold in women's shot put on Thursday at the Oslo Diamond League track and field meet. Mitton, from Brooklyn, N.S., sent her first shot 19.54 metres, a distance that he...

HALIFAX - A lawyer for Glen Assoun, the Nova Scotia man who served 16 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend, confirmed today that his longtime client has died....

KALAMATA, Greece (AP) - The Greek coast guard says nine survivors from the migrant ship that sank off the country's coast have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to the smuggling ring that arrang...

TUMBLER RIDGE - The evacuation order for the District of Tumbler Ridge has been lifted, meaning residents will soon be able to return to their homes. As of 10:00 am today (June 15), the evacuation ord...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Campfires will be allowed in the Cariboo Fire Centre (CFC) this weekend.Effective 12:00 noon Friday (June 16), the CFC says its Category One campfire prohibition will be rescinde...

MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized the exhumation of the remains of two Innu boys whose families have questions about their 1970 deaths at a Quebec hospital. The exhumations are t...

CHARLOTTETOWN - A review of allegations of workplace misconduct at the University of Prince Edward Island says the school had a toxic environment where bullying and harassment were widespread and cond...

OTTAWA - A Senate committee says the current cannabis market and legislation has kept Indigenous Peoples from sharing in the economic opportunities that the legalization of recreational pot created. T...