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OTTAWA - Canada is throwing its hat in the ring for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, pledging to advance issues from online speech to access to abortion. "There is a clear backlash h...

ROME - Canada's Leylah Fernandez has been eliminated from the Italian Open tennis tournament after a 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-3 loss to Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus in first-round action on Tuesday. Fernan...

DOHA, Qatar - Canadian judoka Christa Deguchi won the gold medal in the women's under-57-kilogram event Tuesday at the judo world championships. The Japanese-born Deguchi, who lives and trains in Leth...

SUNRISE, Fla. - Mitch Marner has repeatedly pointed out how little attention he pays to anything that doesn't emanate from inside the Maple Leafs' orbit. The winger insists he stays off social media a...

COVID forced a lot of popular events to take multiple years off, many of which are only just this year returning to normal. One of those events is the Pine Needle Mountain Bike and Music Festival.Afte...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Suncor Energy says someone was injured by a bear at its oilsands base plant north of Fort McMurray, Alta., on the weekend. Spokesman Leithan Slade says it happened on Saturday a...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - California will pay a $24 million civil rights settlement to the family of a man who died in police custody after screaming "I can't breathe" as multiple officers restrained him whi...

WASHINGTON - An Indigenous band is asking a Wisconsin judge to order an emergency shutdown of the Line 5 pipeline. The Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa says ongoing spring flooding risks e...

The canola industry is expressing concern that China will retaliate to Canada's expulsion of its diplomat by blocking agricultural shipments. China blocked canola shipments from two major Canadian com...

There was a new face at the City of North Battleford's council meeting this week. Kelcey Maksymchuk was welcomed to the table as the city's new finance manager. Margarita Pena, the city's finance dire...