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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's once powerful oil minister who quit last year has been arrested on allegations of corruption, the government announced Tuesday. The Ministry of Communications rel...

MILAN (AP) - An explosion Tuesday at a hydroelectric plant in northern Italy killed at least three workers and seriously injured five others, a regional fire chief said. At least four other people wer...

TORONTO - Ricardo Pasquel survived a Canadian winter. Now the fun really begins The Mexico City native and his two brothers, Eduardo and Miguel, are looking forward to their first season as owners of ...

UTICA - A women's world junior hockey championship will happen, but is at least five years away, says the International Ice Hockey Federation. Canada and the United States want that timeline shortened...

TORONTO - A group that includes two-time Olympic gold medal curler John Morris and former NFL player Jared Allen has purchased the Grand Slam of Curling tour from Sportsnet. The Curling Group, a sport...

LONDON (AP) - Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called "God particle" that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the Un...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has ruled out raising taxes on the middle class in the upcoming federal budget - but won't say if corporations or the wealthy are in for the same treatment....

The City of Melfort has approved a request for a debt increase.Council signed off on the request to increase the debt limit from $8 million to $12 million at Monday night's meeting.City Manager Adam H...

MONACO (AP) - Two-time Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz withdrew from the clay-court Monte Carlo Masters tournament on Tuesday because of a muscle injury to his right forearm. The Wimbledon champion...

CALGARY - Hockey Canada announced Tuesday that it has hired Jaime Boldt as its first governance adviser. Katherine Henderson, president and chief executive officer of Hockey Canada, said in a release ...