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OTTAWA - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Canada later this week to meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland. Their meeting comes in advance...

OTTAWA - It appears the overseas prisoner dubbed "Jihadi Jack" by the British media won't be headed to Canada any time soon. Neither the governing Liberals nor the Opposition Conservati...

OTTAWA - As tensions escalate between pro-democracy protesters and police in Hong Kong, Canadian diplomats there say they've not yet seen any surge in demand for assistance from the nearly 300,000 Can...

Canada Post wants to remind pet owners to take the proper measures to make sure their dogs are not biting letter carriers. Monica Modrall, a letter carrier with Canada Post in Grande Prairie and a mem...

QUEBEC - The federal government has announced it will invest up to $1.2 billion on an expanded public transit network for Quebec City, including a 23-kilometre tramway line. Prime Minister Justin Trud...

Grande Prairie will be one of a few Albertan cities where hearings regarding supervised consumption sites will take place. The Alberta government has announced an eight-member panel to look at the soc...

AUSTIN, Texas - Police said Monday they are still investigating the weekend motorcycle crash that killed former Texas Longhorns running back and NFL player Cedric Benson and a woman passenger. Accordi...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is calling on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by at least a full percentage point "over a fairly short period of time," saying that such an action would m...

NEW YORK - After five years of investigations and protests, the New York City Police Department on Monday fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of the black man whose dying cries of "I...

OTTAWA - Elections Canada says it will decide on a case-by-case basis whether discussing the legitimacy of climate change becomes a partisan issue for third parties during the federal campai...