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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...

A man faces serious charges -- including forcible confinement -- after a young woman was reportedly attacked in her home in Saskatoon's Stonebridge neighbourhood. It happened in the 100 block of Wellm...

Over the past few years, Regina’s Chris Harris has been travelling to Europe to document the final resting places of Saskatchewan soldiers killed in battle. Harris originally created the Saskatc...

PORTSMOUTH, United Kingdom - The terrible and tragic story of the Second World War played out in an elaborate ceremony in this city in southern England on Wednesday, mere metres from where thousands o...

While producers could use some rain, people who hate mosquitos and tent caterpillars have dry conditions to thank for smaller populations of the insects. Jeff Boone, an entomologist with the City of S...