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The beaches of Normandy looked very different Thursday than they did 75 years ago. June 6 marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, the largest amphibious operation in world history. D-Day pav...

Canadians were urged to heed the eternal lessons of the Second World War as ceremonies commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day were held Thursday in cities across the country. Veterans and dignita...

There were several veterans in the crowd at the special D-Day ceremony in front of the Regina Cenotaph on Thursday. Many were wearing uniforms, but it was the small medal on Jeanne Tweten’s shir...

Meadow Lake RCMP are searching for two suspects following a reported home invasion where a man was shot twice at close range. Around 2:30 a.m. Thursday morning, RCMP were called to a home in Meadow La...

OMAHA BEACH, France - With silent remembrance and respect, nations honoured the fallen and the singular bravery of all Allied troops who sloshed through bloodied water to the beaches of Normandy 75 ye...

COURSEULLES-SUR-MER, France - Joseph Edwardson couldn't hold back the tears. Exactly 75 years earlier, Edwardson and thousands of other young Canadian men had come ashore on this very beach in norther...

Listen live here to 650 CKOM's The Green Zone at 5 p.m. for live, pre-game coverage as the Saskatchewan Roughriders get ready to play the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in CFL pre-season action.

Three distinctive stacks of chalk rise majestically about eight storeys high from the western edge of the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. Known locally as The Needles, they would have b...

A contingent of the Royal Regina Rifles is in Normandy to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. In a series of pictures posted to the regiment’s Facebook page, the Rifles were in Bret...

PORTSMOUTH, England - Queen Elizabeth II and world leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump gathered Wednesday on the south coast of England to honour the troops who risked and sacrificed their l...