Author Archives: The Canadian Press

LOS ANGELES - From the red carpet to the main stage, sadness loomed over music's biggest night Sunday at the arena in downtown Los Angeles where Kobe Bryant played for 20 years for the city's NBA team...

SAN DIEGO - Tiger Woods has heard just about everything from playing before the biggest crowds in golf, and he tends to ignore it. Most puzzling was what he kept hearing along the back nine Sunday at ...

BEIJING - China says the death toll from a new virus has risen to 80, with 2,744 confirmed cases. The National Health Commission said Monday morning there were 769 new cases confirmed in the 24 hours ...

LOS ANGELES - The Latest on the Grammy Awards, being presented Sunday at Los Angeles' Staples Center (all times local): 4 p.m. Lizzo and Billie Eilish have won their first career Grammys in what could...

NEW YORK - Valeria Luiselli's novel "Lost Children Archive" and Adam Higginbotham's nonfiction "Midnight in Chornobyl" have been awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal, a $5,000 prize presented by the Amer...

CALABASAS, Calif. - NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and three others were killed in a helicopter crash in Southern California on Sunday. The chopper went down in Calabasas, about 30 m...

LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career spent entirely with the Los A...

CALABASAS, Calif. - Emergency crews responded after a helicopter crashed and sparked a small brush fire Sunday in Southern California, authorities said. The crash occurred in Calabasas, said Art Marru...

TORONTO - Even before Canada's first coronavirus case was announced in Toronto over the weekend, Canada's medical community was on alert - and not just for the disease. Public health officials sa...

VANCOUVER - Lunar New Year celebrations are set to get underway in Vancouver's Chinatown late Sunday morning, while at least one other event in the Lower Mainland has been cancelled over fears of coro...