KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have settled in as rulers of Afghanistan, two years after they seized power as U.S. and NATO forces withdrew from the country following two decades of war. The ...

EDMONTON - The Canada Border Services Agency says officers discovered two live tarantulas hidden inside plastic containers at the Edmonton International Airport earlier this year. In May, officers saw ...

NEW YORK (AP) — For Jake Welch, getting dressed is one big math problem. The 36-year-old brand director for an advertising firm calculates the cost-per-wear of his wardrobe by highlighting 200 items ...

CALGARY - Sean Stanford’s wheat farm just south of Lethbridge, Alta. falls within the far left corner of Palliser’s Triangle — an expanse of prairie grassland encompassingmuch of southeast Alberta, a ...

MONTREAL - A warehouse basement in an industrial area of Montreal, near the intersection of two highways, feels about as far from a fish habitat as it gets. But walk through the doors of Opercule’s ...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a national recall of Monster brand energy drinks. The recall affects all flavours of the drink that contain caffeine and that do not have ...

In his preteen years, Robbie Robertson looked forward to spending his summer vacations with his cousins at the Six Nations Reserve located just outside Brantford, Ont. One of the big reasons? His ...

Ottawa police say they have charged two 16-year-old male suspects in the death of 17-year-old Hussein Hamam last month. Each is being charged with manslaughter, arson causing bodily harm and ...

EDMONTON - The police chief of Alberta’s capital city stood solemnly at a podium, at moments appearing to be welling up, as he took questions from reporters about the random killing of a mother and ...

Telus Corp. announced Friday it is cutting 6,000 jobs as it seeks to adapt to a “rapidly transforming industry,” saying issues such as regulation and competition have prompted the need to reduce its ...

TORONTO - Nicolas Cage’s surrealist comedy “Dream Scenario” will open the competitive Platform program at the Toronto International Film Festival, with acclaimed filmmaker Barry Jenkins set to lead ...

Imagine having the prodigious talent to hold the entire plot and characters of a novel inside your mind, all of it making a breeze around your head “like oversized butterflies whose wings were cut ...