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MILAN (AP) - An explosion Tuesday at a hydroelectric plant in northern Italy killed at least three workers and seriously injured five others, a regional fire chief said. At least four other people wer...

TORONTO - Ricardo Pasquel survived a Canadian winter. Now the fun really begins The Mexico City native and his two brothers, Eduardo and Miguel, are looking forward to their first season as owners of ...

UTICA - A women's world junior hockey championship will happen, but is at least five years away, says the International Ice Hockey Federation. Canada and the United States want that timeline shortened...

TORONTO - A group that includes two-time Olympic gold medal curler John Morris and former NFL player Jared Allen has purchased the Grand Slam of Curling tour from Sportsnet. The Curling Group, a sport...

LONDON (AP) - Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called "God particle" that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the Un...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is granting a one-time $430 benefit to the roughly 20,000 seniors in its support program for elderly low-income renters. B.C. Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon sa...

MONACO (AP) - Two-time Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz withdrew from the clay-court Monte Carlo Masters tournament on Tuesday because of a muscle injury to his right forearm. The Wimbledon champion...

CALGARY - Hockey Canada announced Tuesday that it has hired Jaime Boldt as its first governance adviser. Katherine Henderson, president and chief executive officer of Hockey Canada, said in a release ...

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - The parents of a Michigan school shooter were each sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday for failing to take steps that could have prevented the killing of four studen...

NEW YORK (AP) - A New York appeals court judge Tuesday rejected former President Donald Trump's latest bid to delay his hush money criminal trial while he fights a gag order, clearing the way for jury...