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VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Supreme Court has rejected lawsuits by mink farmers challenging a provincial shutdown of the industry over COVID-19 concerns. A ruling by Justice Amy Francis says "hig...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The 2024 regular session of the South Carolina General Assembly ended Thursday and will perhaps be better remembered for the things that didn't pass. South Carolina remains one o...

OTTAWA - Prominent business groups have backtracked their claim that one in five Canadians would be affected by the federal government's proposed changes to capital gains taxation. In a letter sent to...

FREDERICTON - Elected councils overseeing francophone school districts in New Brunswick are not immune from being dissolved if they don't adhere to the province's policy change affecting LGBTQ+ studen...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed a measure on Thursday to rebuild Baltimore's historic but antiquated Pimlico Race Course and transfer the track to state control. Under the new law...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Mike Johnson's job isn't safe yet. In a stunning show of unity in the often divided House, Democrats joined a majority of Republicans on Wednesday to save the GOP speaker from an att...

OTTAWA - Canada's Competition Bureau says it will begin a market study focused on the Canadian airline sector. It will look into the state of competition in the airline industry and how governments ca...

OTTAWA - Maayan Ziv knows all too well the problems that can come from giving her motorized wheelchair to a stranger when she gets on a plane. "The fact that I'm even having to be separated from my wh...

VICTORIA - Police are involved in the investigation into a sophisticated attempt to breach protected British Columbia government information systems, Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said Thursday. Bu...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Nikki Haley is meeting next week with donors who supported her now-abandoned Republican presidential campaign, a reentry into public life that comes as the former South Carolina ...