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MONTREAL - As thousands of Quebec students return to class this week, school boards say they're short of teachers to educate them. Gina Guillemette, a spokeswoman for the Montreal-area ...

HALIFAX - The remnants of post-tropical storm Erin were expected to bring heavy rain overnight to a fairly narrow band of the western Maritimes. Bob Robichaud, warning preparedness meteorologist ...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives' former leader doesn't agree with the current leader's assertion that Canada got taken to the cleaners by Donald Trump on the renegotiated NAFTA. Rona Ambrose, who was inter...

Police believe alcohol may have been a factor in a single vehicle crash in the BX area of Vernon Thursday morning.Officers found an unoccupied blue Mazda that collided with a utility pole on 39th Aven...

OTTAWA - As thousands of troops from more than two dozen countries kick off an annual military exercise in the Middle Eastern country of Jordan amid heightened tensions between the West and Iran, Cana...

EDMONTON - Alberta's United Conservatives have repealed a ban on seclusion rooms in schools that was brought in by the previous NDP government. The ban on the rooms, which are meant to give disru...

JUNEAU, Alaska - BP plans to sell its interests in Alaska's once prodigious North Slope to a company seen as having a reputation of giving new life to aging fields. The sale to Hilcorp Alaska, an affi...

Investigators have determined a fire last week that gutted a home in South Vernon, started in the yard, and spread to the house with foul play not suspected.Vernon Fire Rescue crews arrived at the sit...

Awesome is the word the general manager of the Interior Provincial Exhibition uses to describe how day one went at the fair.Yvonne Paulson said everything went off without a hitch on Wednesday at the ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - A group that monitors sea turtles in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, has reported finding a two-headed Loggerhead hatchling. News outlets report Sea Turtle Patrol Hilton...