Category Archives: The Canadian Press

The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan, delivering another major setback to the party in a nationwide battle against Republicans ...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in April. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, how...

OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in April. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 10....

OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's April employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.9 per cent (6.7) Employment rate: 60.5 per cent (60.6) Participation rate...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon has begun releasing new files on UFOs, saying members of the public can draw their own conclusions on "unidentified anomalous phenomena" like an object that a drone pilo...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - An Islamic State-affiliated group attacked villages in Congo near the border with Uganda, killing at least 40 people and burning and looting homes, a local civil society group s...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Canadian consular officials head to Canary Islands to meet hantavirus cruise ship Consular officials are on t...

OTTAWA - The number of Canadians connected to a hantavirus outbreak that began on a polar expedition cruise has grown to 10 as federal officials report three more people - two from Alberta and one fro...

ABBOTSFORD - Arnold and Joanne De Jong spent their last night alive surrounded by family, not knowing that three men who had done cleaning work on their property in of Abbotsford, B.C., would later in...

ST. JOHN'S - At the top of Signal Hill in St. John's, N.L., on Tuesday afternoon, a steady stream of people walked around a rocky cliff and gasped. Some cheered, some took out their phones to capture ...