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HALIFAX - As Canadian firefighters boarded flights today to battle blazes in Australia, they noted they will likely have to employ some different tactics than they do to fight loca...

There's not a lot that can keep Andy Winder off the lake.While the average angler would hesitate to venture out once the thermometer drops, the avid sportsman from Birch Hills never lets cold temperat...

Some people may be doing whatever possible to avoid going outside when the mercury dips, but for the Melfort Fire Department things roll along for them.On Tuesday, Jan. 14, the department was dispatch...

NEW YORK - Sixty years after her death, the story of Zora Neale Hurston is still not fully told. The fiction writer-anthropologist-folklorist died in a segregated Florida hospital in January 1960, so ...

CAIRO - Sudan said it reopened its airspace Wednesday after an armed revolt from within its security forces shut down the capital's airport for hours and left at least two people dead. In a press conf...

WINNIPEG - The national anthem before this Friday's NHL game in Winnipeg won't quite sound the way it usually does. A group of students from the city's Riverbend Community School are set to perfo...

PHOENIX - U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona said Wednesday that she's taking time off from her congressional duties to seek treatment for alcohol dependence after a "serious" fall. Kirkpatrick, a D...

OTTAWA - The federal government expects to make some changes this year to keep Canada's garbage from illegally ending up on foreign shores, after needing to bring dozens of shipping containers of rott...

VICTORIA - Andrew Weaver is leaving British Columbia's Green party to sit as an Independent. The former party leader says in a news release that he will continue to sit as the legislature member ...

NEW YORK - Tampa Bay goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy, New York Rangers defenceman Tony DeAngelo and Calgary goaltender Cam Talbot are the NHL's three stars of the week.  Vasilevskiy won three games...