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Delayed due to the global pandemic but still taking place under the spectre of COVID-19, this year's Tour de France promises to be like no other. The 21-stage, 3,484-kilometre race starts Saturda...

Farmers in southern Saskatchewan used the warm weather last week to make substantial progress on their harvest. Their counterparts in the central and northern areas of the province weren’t as fo...

The nine-year-old boy who was found unresponsive at Pike Lake Tuesday has died. The Saskatchewan Coroner's Office confirmed to 650 CKOM Thursday morning that the death was a result of drowning. On Wed...

NEW YORK - Three of five Canadians are seeded and the two others won't face seeded players in the opening round of the U.S. Open next week. The U.S. Tennis Association quietly posted the women's and m...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - NBA players will continue the playoffs after postponements following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a source tells The Associated Press. More coming. The A...

WASHINGTON - Canadians believe the COVID-19 crisis has brought their country together, while Americans blame the pandemic for worsening their cultural and political divide, a new international public ...

TORONTO - General manager Ross Atkins has secured some much-needed help for the Toronto Blue Jays' injury-plagued starting rotation. Toronto landed right-hander Taijuan Walker from the ...

WASHINGTON - Vice-President Mike Pence's chief of staff said Thursday that NBA protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, are "absurd and silly." "If they want to protest,...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - An unprecedented NBA walkout over racial injustice postponed a second day of the playoffs Thursday, although players pledged to finish the post-season even as they wrestled wi...

EDMONTON - Albertans are to get a look at the province’s biggest deficit in history when the government releases its financial update today. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has been warning that th...