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The Town of Nipawin is getting a bit more than they expected when it comes to their Water Treatment Plant project.Initially budgeted at about $20.8 million, the project came in at about $1.6 million u...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada reports nearly one-third of Canadian businesses who responded in a newly released survey have seen their revenues plummet by 40 per cent as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic...

WASHINGTON - The Navy will conduct a legal investigation of circumstances surrounding the spread of the coronavirus aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, a move that effectively delays a...

TOKYO - New rumours about Kim Jong Un pour in daily. The North Korean leader is dead. Or he's very ill. Or maybe he's just recuperating in his luxury compound, or isolating himself from the coronaviru...

OTTAWA - The House of Commons will be asked today to give rapid approval to legislation authorizing $9 billion in promised financial assistance for students facing bleak summer job prospects in t...

NEW DELHI - Irrfan Khan, a veteran character actor in Bollywood movies and one of India's best-known exports to Hollywood, has died. He was 54. Khan played the police inspector in "Slumdog Millionaire...

LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his partner Carrie Symonds have announced the birth of a baby boy. Johnson's office says Symonds gave birth to a "healthy baby boy at a London hospita...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of April 29 ... ---...

NEW YORK - The most controversial movie of the year is ... "Trolls World Tour"? As innocuous as the rainbow-colored, music-blaring animated movie may seem, the digital release of the "Trolls" sequel h...

On a day when no new cases were reported, community leaders and Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) officials provided an update on the COVID-19 outbreak in the northern village of La Loche and its ne...