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PRINCE GEORGE - It took just one season playing at the Triple-A level for the Prince George Knights U18 team to bring home another championship, just this time it was their first Triple-A title.Playin...

Aurelie Rivard has learned to adapt to swimming with no fans in the stands to cheer her on. The Paralympic star can dig deep within herself to find that pre-competitive adrenalin rush. Organizers anno...

MONTREAL - Lamenting the "fly in and fly out" culture of workers in Quebec's northern communities, Premier Franois Legault said Monday his government would build more affordable housing in the north t...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Thousands of Afghans rushed into Kabul's main airport Monday, some so desperate to escape the Taliban that they held onto a military jet as it took off and plunged to their d...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military is sending another battalion of about 1,000 troops to help safeguard the Kabul airport, where American forces killed two armed people during increasingly chaotic ev...

SAULNIERVILLE, N.S. - Nova Scotia's Sipekne'katik First Nation says it is expanding its self-regulated lobster fishery in St. Marys Bay, despite concerns from the federal government. The band is to ma...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Proposed: President Joe Biden and other top U.S. officials have been stunned by the pace of the Taliban's nearly complete takeover of Afghanistan, as the planned withdrawal of Americ...

YELLOWKNIFE - Two communities in the Northwest Territories are under a containment order after cases of COVID-19 were identified over the weekend. There is one confirmed case and five probable cases i...

TOKYO (AP) - All fans will be barred from the Paralympics in Japan because of the coronavirus pandemic, just as they were from the recently-completed Tokyo Olympics, organizers said Monday. There were...

A wildfire sparked Sunday near West Kelowna, B.C., now covers at least two square kilometres and has forced evacuations in a large neighbourhood within the City of West Kelowna. The out-of-control wil...