October 19, 2018

OTTAWA — Japanese car parts manufacturer INOAC Corp. has been fined $1.3 million by Ontario's Superior Court of Justice after it pleaded guilty to rigging bids.The ...

October 19, 2018

Talks to reform subsidies intended to eliminate the $10 carton of milk face by northern families remain stalled over concerns from Inuit that they don't have enough control ...

October 19, 2018

DES MOINES, Iowa — The Mega Millions jackpot has soared to an estimated $1 billion, as the second-largest lottery prize in U.S. lottery history gets even bigger.Lottery ...

October 19, 2018

OTTAWA — The federal government and Lockheed Martin are preparing to launch high-stakes negotiations after the U.S. defence giant was given the first shot at a contract to ...

October 19, 2018

FREDERICTON — An insurance company has been ordered by New Brunswick's top court to pay over $3.3 million to a Catholic diocese to cover the cost of compensation for decades ...

October 19, 2018

QUEBEC — The judge deciding the fate of Quebec City's mosque shooter says he needs additional information from the Crown and defence and more time before pronouncing a ...

October 19, 2018

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A political action committee said Friday that it won't pull radio ads in hotly contested races in Arkansas and Missouri that suggest African American men ...

October 19, 2018

VANCOUVER — Dog owners in North Vancouver are being advised to keep their pets on a short leash if they are walking in Cates Park along the shores of Burrard Inlet. RCMP ...

October 19, 2018

FREDERICTON — The former chair of the federal cannabis task force says she expected the initial celebration of recreational weed legalization — but it's now time for everyone...

October 19, 2018

NEW DELHI — A speeding train ran over a crowd watching fireworks during a religious festival in northern India on Friday, killing at least 58 people and injuring dozens more,...

October 19, 2018

NAIROBI, Kenya — Running great Kip Keino said Friday that charges against him in a Kenyan Olympic corruption case have been dropped and he has been released.The honorary IOC ...

October 19, 2018

TOKYO — The 2020 Tokyo Paralympics promise to be the best. They're being promoted just like the Olympics, planning is ahead of recent games in Rio de Janeiro and London, and ...

October 19, 2018

If red, orange and blue were the dominant colours of Ontario's last political season, anything goes this time around.Municipal elections project their professed neutrality ...

October 19, 2018

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A new trial has been ordered in the high-profile case of a Newfoundland police officer acquitted of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman he drove home ...

October 19, 2018

LYON, France — The wife of the former Interpol president who is being detained in China on bribery charges says she has been contacted by Chinese diplomats, who have told her...

October 19, 2018

OTTAWA — The red ink on the federal government's budget showed no signs of fading as the annual financial report card revealed a $19-billion deficit for the second straight ...

October 19, 2018

WASHINGTON — Canada is not about to agree to quotas or other limits on its exports in order to get the United States to lift punishing tariffs on steel and aluminum, says a ...

October 19, 2018

OTTAWA — Canada's national annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in September, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that ...

October 19, 2018

OTTAWA — Canada's national annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in September, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets):— ...

October 19, 2018

OTTAWA — The annual pace of inflation slowed more than expected in September as increases in the price of gasoline continued to ease. Statistics Canada said Friday the ...

October 19, 2018

HURON, Calif. — Beyond the boarded-up buildings and patchwork fences that others view as eyesores, Huron Mayor Rey Leon sees potential in this tiny central California farm ...

October 19, 2018

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala — Migrants travelling in a mass caravan burst through a Guatemalan border fence and streamed by the thousands toward Mexican territory on Friday, ...

October 19, 2018

WASHINGTON — Weeks before the 2016 election, federal officials started making mysterious calls to the head of elections in Inyo County, California. They asked her to contact ...

October 19, 2018

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — A family can begin to grieve after officials confirmed Friday the death of a 79-year-old Florida woman who had been missing since Hurricane Michael left ...

October 19, 2018

WASHINGTON — An environmental group has denounced a House oversight committee for suggesting the organization's efforts to block construction of a U.S. military base on the ...

October 19, 2018

KABUL — Most Afghans will return to the polls for parliamentary elections on Saturday, hoping to bring change to a corrupt government that has lost nearly half the country to...

October 19, 2018

KABUL — Afghanistan is holding parliamentary elections on Saturday despite deep security concerns and ongoing fighting in as many as 20 out of the country's 34 provinces.The ...

October 19, 2018

LOS ANGELES — Nearly 100 women who contend that they were sexually harassed or abused by a former University of Southern California gynecologist are suing the school, ...

October 19, 2018

CHICAGO — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to deliver a speech in Chicago one week after the Trump administration asked a judge to reject a draft plan to reform ...

October 19, 2018

NEW YORK — Nikki Haley was introduced as the next president of the United States by comedian Jim Gaffigan at a white-tie gala in New York Thursday evening where the outgoing ...

October 19, 2018

BRIGHTON, Colo. — The man who gunned down three people in a suburban Denver Walmart last year was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole. But more than 11 months ...

October 19, 2018

BARRON, Wis. — One-hundred volunteers have joined the search for a Wisconsin girl who went missing earlier this week and whose parents were shot and killed in their ...

October 19, 2018

NEW DELHI — Dozens of Hindu priests on Friday joined conservative protesters to block women of menstruating age from one of the world's largest Hindu pilgrimage sites, ...

October 19, 2018

MISSOULA, Mont. — Eager to bring immigration to the forefront as the midterm elections near, President Donald Trump suggested without evidence that Democrats or their allies ...

October 19, 2018

MISSOULA, Mont. — President Donald Trump praised a Republican congressman for body-slamming a reporter last year, calling him a "tough cookie" and saying he thinks it might ...

October 19, 2018

DETROIT — Several cremated remains have been found by cleaning crews at a former Detroit funeral home where mummified remains of 10 fetuses were discovered last week in a ...

October 19, 2018

PHOENIX — An Arizona man who fell to the bottom of an old abandoned gold mine shaft, broke both his legs, fought off a trio of rattlesnakes and went two days without food or ...

October 19, 2018

PHOENIX — A man accused of threatening to kidnap and kill a United States senator and his family has been indicted on federal charges in Arizona.The indictment filed Oct. 9 ...

October 19, 2018

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia's former deputy prime minister was charged Friday with abuse of power, corruption and money laundering involving millions of dollars in ...

October 19, 2018

CANBERRA, Australia — The president of Australia's top lawyers' group told a parliamentary inquiry that proposed cybersecurity laws to force global technology companies such ...

October 19, 2018

NUSA DUA, Indonesia — Instead of destroying jobs and leaving legions of people without work, the digital revolution can open doors to unseen opportunities and industries, but...

October 19, 2018

SEATTLE — Prior to his death on Monday, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen invested large sums in technology ventures, research projects and philanthropy, some of it...

October 19, 2018

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin's former bodyguard has rejected an opposition leader's invitation for a television debate after challenging him to a duel.Gen. Viktor ...

October 19, 2018

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia acknowledged early Saturday that Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in a fight, and said 18...

October 19, 2018

Five stories in the news for Friday, Oct. 19 ——— CALGARY COUPLE CONVICTED IN SON'S DEATH A jury has convicted a Calgary couple in the death of their 14-month-old son ...

October 19, 2018

VANCOUVER — As Vancouver voters prepare to elect a new mayor and council on Saturday, observers say it could still be anyone's game.The campaign has been marked by a crowded ...

October 19, 2018

VANCOUVER — Local elections will be held across British Columbia on Saturday. Here are five races to watch:NANAIMO: The election could trigger a provincial byelection if ...

October 19, 2018

TOKYO — A U.S. Navy helicopter crashed on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan on Friday, causing non-fatal injuries to a dozen sailors, the Navy ...

October 18, 2018

CALGARY — A jury has convicted a Calgary couple in the death of their 14-month-old son who never saw a doctor until the day before he died in hospital of a staph ...

October 18, 2018

EDMONTON — One of Canada's most celebrated singer-songwriters, k.d. lang, has been awarded Alberta's highest honour.Lang was one of eight recipients of the Alberta Order of ...

October 18, 2018

WASHINGTON — Federal safety investigators have been unable to conduct a full examination of the limousine involved in a crash that killed 20 people nearly two weeks ago in ...

October 18, 2018

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Republican congressman in central Arkansas and his challenger on Thursday condemned a political action committee's radio ad that suggests white ...

October 18, 2018

VANCOUVER — An earthquake early-warning system tested off British Columbia's coast could give residents anywhere from 20 seconds to two minutes to prepare before a quake.The ...

October 18, 2018

OTTAWA — The federal government has no intention of sending anyone to a major investment conference in Saudi Arabia next week at a time when Riyadh is the target of global ...

October 18, 2018

VICTORIA — British Columbia's minority government moved to change its key housing policy legislation on Thursday in an effort to win the support of the three members of the ...

October 18, 2018

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. — The managers of two pot shops on Vancouver Island where police seized thousands of dollars worth of marijuana say the British Columbia government failed ...

October 18, 2018

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador's Crown-owned utility says it has directed the main contractor at the Muskrat Falls hydro-electric megaproject site to stop ...

October 18, 2018

OTTAWA — Canada's top general is taking no comfort from the fact the number of sexual assaults reported to military authorities more than doubled last year, after suggestions...

October 18, 2018

PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal court has ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must come up with a plan to protect salmon from warm water temperatures, which can be...

October 18, 2018

VANCOUVER — A 14-year-old girl's quest to give away two tickets to Ellen Degeneres's appearance in Vancouver has turned into an 82-ticket giveaway complete with all the "...

October 18, 2018

TORONTO — Canada's beer producers have welcomed the federal government's decision to exempt from tariffs most beer cans imported from the United States.The Canadian ...

October 18, 2018

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump's lawyers hope to persuade an appeals court to dismiss or delay a former "Apprentice" contestant's claim that he defamed her by calling her ...

October 18, 2018

TORONTO — A campaign adviser to Premier Doug Ford has been appointed as Ontario's trade representative to the United States.Ian Todd will take on the post in Washington, D.C....

October 18, 2018

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Atlantic City wants to become the East Coast capitol of competitive video game tournaments, also known as esports.The activity is rapidly growing in ...

October 18, 2018

EDMONTON — Three adult St. Bernards who couldn't be separated because they're best buddies have found a home.The Edmonton Humane Society says Goliath, Gunther and Gasket are ...

October 18, 2018

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant's chances of holding onto power are looking increasingly bleak, after every opposition member officially declared Thursday ...

October 18, 2018

EDMONTON — She's being called one smart cookie. As people lined up to buy cannabis at one of six Edmonton cannabis stores that opened Wednesday a small entrepreneur stood...

October 18, 2018

OTTAWA — Two senior Liberal cabinet ministers are off to Beijing next month to co-chair a high-level business conference and to push Canada's trade interests with ...

October 18, 2018

ROANOKE, Va. — A Virginia store has had 20 right-foot shoes stolen over the course of three break-ins this year.The Roanoke Times reports Roanoke County police arrested 21-...

October 18, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — Two years ago, a federal prosecutor in Pittsburgh considered filing a racketeering lawsuit against a Roman Catholic diocese over its handling of child ...

October 18, 2018

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A former FBI agent in Minnesota who admitted to leaking classified defence documents to a reporter was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison.Terry ...