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Navy veteran Hung Cao enters GOP race to challenge Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine in 2024
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Retired Navy combat veteran Hung Cao, who ran an energetic but unsuccessful campaign last year for a blue-leaning northern Virginia U.S. House seat, has set his sights on the U.S....
Jul 18, 2023

UNBC and CUPE Local 3799 ratify collective agreement
PRINCE GEORGE - The University of Northern British Columbia and CUPE Local 3799 have successfully ratified a new collective agreement consistent with the provincial government's Shared Recovery Mandat...
Jul 18, 2023

CP NewsAlert: Blockade dismantled at Winnipeg landfill
WINNIPEG - A blockade has been taken down at a Winnipeg landfill where demonstrators have been calling for the search of a different landfill north of the city for the remains of two Indigenous women....
Jul 18, 2023

Hamilton Tiger-Cats place veteran quarterback Shiltz on six-game injured list
HAMILTON, Ohio - The Hamilton Tiger-Cats placed quarterback Matt Shiltz on the six-game injured list and signed veteran passer Antonio Pipkin on Tuesday. Shiltz was injured in Hamilton's 37-29 road wi...
Jul 18, 2023

Calgary Flames to retire goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff's number
CALGARY - The Calgary Flames will retire former goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff's number 34 next season. Kiprusoff's number will be raised to the Scotiabank Saddledome rafters March 2 when the Calgary is ...
Jul 18, 2023

Mammals may have hunted down dinosaurs for dinner, rare fossil suggests
NEW YORK (AP) - An unusual find in China suggests some early mammals may have hunted dinosaur for dinner. The fossil shows a badgerlike creature chomping down on a small, beaked dinosaur, their skelet...
Jul 18, 2023

Rescued Australian man and dog who were adrift 3 months in Pacific set to arrive in Mexican port
MANZANILLO, Mexico (AP) - An Australian sailor who was rescued by a Mexican tuna boat after being adrift at sea with his dog for three months will step foot on dry land Tuesday for the first time sinc...
Jul 18, 2023

Multiple evacuation orders downgraded in the Cariboo
WILLIAMS LAKE - Good news in the Cariboo, as the Cariboo Regional District (CRD) has downgraded multiple evacuation orders.That includes a partial evacuation order downgrade in the Teepee Lake area. S...
Jul 18, 2023

A look at some American who crossed into North Korea over the past years
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The U.S.-led United Nations Command is trying to secure the release of an unidentified American soldier who entered North Korea from the South Korean side of a border village...
Jul 18, 2023

Suicide bomber targets truck carrying troops in northwestern Pakistan, wounding 8 people
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A suicide bomber targeted a truck carrying security forces in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, wounding at least eight people, police said amid increasing violence in the re...
Jul 18, 2023