Tag Archives: Politics

HALIFAX - Ottawa's decision to close the lucrative elver fishery on rivers in the Maritimes won't prevent illegal fishing of the baby eels, a commercial licence holder in Nova Scotia said Tuesday. Sta...

OTTAWA - The federal government estimates it will need to pay almost $3.4 billion for its share of the disaster recovery bills for flooding and landslides that devastated British Columbia's Fraser Val...

ATLANTA (AP) - A year ago, Georgia lawmakers said they were striking a balance when they banned most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people under 18, but l...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina's GOP-controlled legislature unlawfully tried to seize from the governor the power to choose elections board members in the battleground state, trial judges ruled w...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Supporters of former President Donald Trump who organized an effort to recall Wisconsin's top elected Republican did not gather enough signatures to trigger the recall election un...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House knew it had a political problem on its hands when a special counsel report questioned President Joe Biden's memory last month, but Biden saw a much more personal affr...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The race for the White House isn't the only one with big stakes for climate policy. In campaigns for Congress and for governor around the country, candidates are talking about how...

When the U.S. Postal Service launched Project Safe Delivery last year, officials pledged they would be "doubling down" on their efforts to combat growing rates of letter carrier robberies. The crackdo...

PHOENIX (AP) - Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego began airing the first television ads of his U.S. Senate campaign on Tuesday as the crucial Arizona race takes shape as a one-on-one contest after incumben...

OTTAWA - Canada's ambassador to the United Nations says a looming military intervention is the best chance Haiti has of uprooting gangs that have wrought escalating chaos on the Caribbean nation for y...