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QUESNEL, B.C. - A year-old border collie-husky mix and her nine, week-old puppies are doing well after being rescued from a sealed box dumped at a central British Columbia landfill. The BC SPCA says i...

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba judge is calling for a full review of health-care services at the Winnipeg Remand Centre where an inmate died after suffering seizures. Provincial court Judge Heather Pullan says...

VICTORIA - Councillors in Victoria are being asked to authorize demolition of what remains of the Plaza Hotel after a fire that burned for four days in the city's downtown last month. T...

NEW YORK - Lester Holt and four of his NBC News colleagues will share moderating duties for the first debate of 2020 Democratic presidential contenders. The debate, shown on NBC News networks, will un...

MONTREAL - Quebec's education minister says he'll issue a decree to transfer three English schools in Montreal to an overcrowded French board. Jean-Francois Roberge told Montreal's 98.5 FM that h...

SAN FRANCISCO - "Stairway to Heaven" will get another hearing, this time to a packed house. A panel of 11 judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Monday to hear Led Zeppelin's appeal ...

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. - The fate of the Woodstock 50 festival was unclear Monday when the host of the event pulled out, but organizers said they were in talks with another venue. The festival has faced a...

A universal anti-idling bylaw has been squashed by Vernon council, at least for now. City council voted to receive the request for an anti-idling bylaw, but not act as recommended by city staff. Coun....

JOHANNESBURG - Botswana became the latest country to decriminalize gay sex on Tuesday in a landmark case for Africa when the High Court rejected as unconstitutional sections of the penal code punishin...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Sunday lamented what he called a "culture of insults" enabled by social media and warned against nationalism and other "exclusivist ideas" that he said contrast with a C...