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OTTAWA - Some environment leaders are applauding Tuesday's pledge by Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau to accelerate Canada's plans to cut greenhouse-gas emissions but many in the youth climate-strik...

NEW YORK - Jennifer Lopez and Shakira are going to bring the heat to the 2020 Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show. NFL, Pepsi and Roc Nation announced Thursday that the superstar performers, who have relea...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California prison officials have halted an effort aimed at forcing warring prison gangs to get along with each other after the inmates wound up brawling and even rioting when plac...

PRINCE GEORGE - The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group (JPBG-owned) and its unionized employees have reached an agreement on a new contract.The four-year deal was ratified by members of Unifor Local 1010 on...

BOSTON - The governor of Massachusetts declared a public health emergency Tuesday and ordered a four-month ban on the sale of vaping products in the state, apparently the first action of its kind in t...

INVERNESS, N.S. - Residents of a small community in Cape Breton are worried they'll have to suffer through another year of putrid fumes wafting from an overworked sewage lagoon, despite a hi...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - FBI agents carried materials in bankers' boxes and grocery bags out of the Illinois Capitol building on Tuesday, and multiple media outlets reported that and other raids were linke...

TORONTO - An exemption to a law that automatically branded a dental hygienist as a sexual abuser for cleaning his wife's teeth remains under government review more than four years after regulators pro...

VANCOUVER - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau chose once again on Tuesday to stage one of the biggest moments of his campaign in British Columbia, as he made a major climate-chang...

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou denies her defence team is on a "fishing expedition" for documents to support its case. Scott Fenton told B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday that...