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BELLEVILLE, Ont. - After spending last season in the American Hockey League, Drake Batherson feels he's ready to make the jump to the Ottawa Senators. The 21-year-old forward hopes he can convinc...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Attorneys for some 2,000 local governments say they have agreed to a tentative settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over the toll of the nation's opioid crisis. Attorney Pau...

EDMONTON - The Force is with this young transplant patient. Mason Thomas received a new heart at Edmonton's University of Alberta Hospital when he was six. In order to help the now eight-yea...

KISSIMMEE, Fla. - A Florida man has been convicted of fatally shooting two police officers and could be sentenced to death. The Orlando Sentinel reports that 47-year-old Everett Glenn Miller guilty wa...

MILTON, Ont. - Morgan Rielly would have liked nothing more than to tee off with Mitch Marner at the Toronto Maple Leafs' annual golf tournament. After going through William Nylander's contract impasse...

OTTAWA - A Calgary organization that argues climate change is nothing close to a global emergency says Elections Canada is right to keep a close eye on campaign-period communications from th...

Garbage and green beans. Rubbish and rutabaga.North Battleford's residential waste audit results, presented by Assistant Director of Utility Services Tammy MacCormack at council Monday, indicated that...

LONDON - Canadian travel agencies are scrambling to help passengers whose British Airways flights have been cancelled on Monday and Tuesday after a pilots strike grounded the global carrier. The ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Assembly is expected to give final consideration Wednesday to a bill that would provide new wage and benefit protections to workers at so-called gig economy compani...

OKLAHOMA CITY - T. Boone Pickens, a brash and quotable oil tycoon who grew even wealthier through corporate takeover attempts, died Wednesday. He was 91. Pickens' spokesman Jay Rosser confirmed the de...