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LYTTON, B.C. - The search continues today for multiple residents of a village in British Columbia's Interior that was decimated by a wildfire this week. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth hasn't sa...

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police said Friday they were looking for a suspect in connection with a killing on Canada Day that occurred in the First Nations territory of Kanesatake, west of Montreal....

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia RCMP have called in the Ontario Provincial Police to investigate the unauthorized release of 911 calls recorded the night a lone gunman started a killing rampage that led to ...

TORONTO - A 31-year-old man was charged with first-degree murder Friday in the death of a veteran police officer who was struck by a vehicle earlier that day, an incident investigators deemed an "inte...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Elsa strengthened into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season on Friday as it battered the eastern Caribbean, where officials closed schools, businesses and airports, ...

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SASKATOON - Melanie Patton last saw her son over the May long weekend when they met for a belated Mother’s Day celebration in Saskatoon. Mother’s Day is a big tradition in the Patton famil...

LYTTON, B.C. - British Columbia's chief coroner says preliminary reports suggest two people have died as a result of the wildfire that ravaged the village of Lytton, B.C. Lisa Lapointe told a news con...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - After nearly 20 years, the U.S. military left Bagram Airfield, the epicenter of its war to oust the Taliban and hunt down the al Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist atta...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is halting federal executions after a historic use of capital punishment by the Trump administration, which carried out 13 executions in six months. Attorney G...