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SEATTLE- A 2-1 overtime win for the Prince George Cougars over the Seattle Thunderbirds yesterday ( Sunday) in Kent, Washington.Captain Josh Maser scored the overtime winner. The win brings the Cougar...

PRINCE GEORGE-The Cariboo Cougars downed the Fraser Valley Thunderbirds 5-2 yesterday (Sunday) at Kin 1, after the teams skated to a 3-3 tie on Saturday. The Cougars pushed their record to 25-10-2-1, ...

JUBA, South Sudan - South Sudan opened a new chapter in its fragile emergence from civil war Saturday as rival leaders formed a coalition government that many observers prayed would last this time aro...

NEW YORK - Barbara "B." Smith, one of the nation's top black models who went on to open restaurants, launch a successful home products line and write cookbooks, has died at her Long Island home at age...

BEIJING - China announced Monday it has postponed its most important political meetings of the year because of the outbreak of the new virus, a significant step for an authoritarian government that ha...

CODOGNO, Italy - Police manned checkpoints around quarantined towns in Italy's north on Monday as authorities sought to contain cases of COVID-19 virus that have made Italy the focal point of the outb...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian officials Saturday reported a sixth death from the new virus that emerged in China. The governor of Markazi province told the official IRNA news agency that tests of a patient w...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 24. What we are watching in Canada ... On...

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. - Ontario Premier Doug Ford kicked off his re-election campaign on Saturday night, a move he makes more than two years ahead of the next provincial election and on t...

More protests in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs sprung up on Saturday, a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pivoted to take a sterner tone with Indigenous leaders he blames f...