Author Archives: The Canadian Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sports, theatre and music fans will be able to take their seats again in California as the state's coronavirus cases plummet and vaccinations jump. After a year-long ban on most i...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $15 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on Apr. 6 will grow to an estimated $20 million. The Canadian Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California on Friday cleared the way for people to attend indoor concerts, theatre performances and NBA games for the first time in more than a year as the rate of people testing ...

MONTREAL - Protesters marched through Montreal's Plateau borough Friday afternoon to denounce what many described as a "pandemic" of violence against women, after a slate of recent killings. Eight wom...

HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. - April, the giraffe that became a sensation when a rural New York zoo livestreamed her 2017 pregnancy and delivery, was euthanized Friday because of advancing arthritis, the zoo sa...

NEW YORK - Atlanta lost Major League Baseball's summer All-Star Game on Friday over the league's objections to sweeping changes to Georgia voting laws that critics - including the CEOs of Atlanta-base...

NEW YORK - A Utah woman with a star role in "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" reality show pleaded not guilty Friday to charges accusing her of ripping off hundreds of people in a nationwide tel...

OTTAWA - Three of the provinces hardest-hit by COVID-19 spent their second pandemic-era Good Friday either adjusting to or bracing for stricter public health measures meant to bring resurgent case cou...

WASHINGTON - A Capitol Police officer was killed Friday after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and then emerged wielding a knife. It was the second line-of-...

Two legal challenges to the Trump administration's execution of the 2020 census neared conclusions this week in the face of changes brought by President Joe Biden's administration since he took office...