
Alberta wildfires force evacuations, burn 1 home northeast of Edmonton
An out-of-control wildfire in Sturgeon County, Alta., has burned down one house, scattered animals and forced residents to standby ready to evacuate.

An out-of-control wildfire in Sturgeon County, Alta., has burned down one house, scattered animals and forced residents to standby ready to evacuate.

John Hogan will be Newfoundland and Labrador’s 15th premier, and he says he will continue the work of former premier Andrew Furey. But opposition leaders remain concerned that new leadership will mean change.

TORONTO — Craig Berube didn’t utter a word. The Maple Leafs had just surrendered a lead late in Game 6 of their first-round playoff series

TORONTO — Toronto police say they have charged a 17-year-old with two counts of first-degree murder after a double shooting in April. They say officers

Hard-right nationalist George Simion secured a decisive win Sunday in the first round of Romania’s presidential election redo, nearly complete electoral data showed. The election took place months after an annulled vote plunged the NATO member country into its worst political crisis in decades.

TORONTO — Hélène Campbell wants others to have a second chance at life now that she’s on her third. The 34 year old has undergone

Brazilian police said on Sunday that they had thwarted a bomb attack planned for Lady Gaga’s historic concert that drew over 2 million people to Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.

President Donald Trump said he was unsure whether people in the U.S. are entitled to due process rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution, as his administration pushes aggressively to deport immigrants who are in the country illegally and other non-citizens.

With the search for two missing Pictou County children in its third day, an RCMP officer said wet weather Sunday afternoon proved challenging.

A missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels toward Israel on Sunday landed near Ben Gurion Airport, the country’s main international airport, sending a plume of smoke into the air and causing panic among passengers in the terminal building.

Several members of European royal families spent time in Canada during the Second World War, with their stays here becoming a foundation for lasting relations between their home countries and Canada.

Roughly 60,000 children in Gaza are showing signs of malnutrition, the territory’s Health Ministry said, as a two-month blockade on the besieged Palestinian territory remains in place, with aid groups saying the humanitarian response is on the verge of total collapse.

Shepherding the flock may be the classic Christian ideal of leadership, but when the conclave opens on May 7 to choose a new pope for the Roman Catholic Church, forging consensus among the cardinals could prove more akin to herding cats.

Kathy Jourdainâs parents hid she was adopted. A photo album was her first clue that something was amiss.

Cuba saw a multi-month, double-digit drop in the number of Canadians visiting the island nation this past winter, raising questions about what’s behind the slide.

Grey divorces, when a couple older than 50 end their marriage, are on the rise in Canada. When couples reassess their relationship, the end of careers, kids and cost of living all factor into their decisions.

Katheryn Speck said she used to be a Canadian nationalist, travelled the world with a maple leaf on her backpack and once lived in Quebec

The south Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is on its way to becoming an official city with a galactic name: Starbase. A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was approved by a lopsided margin by a small group of voters who live there and are mostly Musk’s employees at SpaceX.

Rain made for a soggy day, with the Churchill Downs dirt strip listed as sloppy and horse racing fans protecting their fancy hats and clothing with clear plastic ponchos.