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TOKYO - Japan announced Thursday its first death from a new virus, hours after confirming 44 more cases on a cruise ship quarantined near Tokyo as fears of the spreading disease mount in the country. ...

Update: Catholic School Division buses with First Student will remained grounded due to the cold weather this afternoon.--The extreme cold temperatures and wind chill has led to school bus cancellatio...

Via Rail has extended train cancellations on major routes in Ontario and Quebec as protests against a pipeline in northern B.C. stretched into a sixth-day on Wednesday. Passenger and freight rail...

CALGARY - Darcy Sharpe says he goes to sleep feeling happy these days. The snowboarder from Comox, B.C., won his first X Games gold medal last month in Aspen, Colo. Sharpe vaulted from last ...

KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine's president dismissed his chief of staff on Tuesday in a sign of intensifying rivalries in his entourage and a possible move to distance himself from a powerful billionaire. Pr...

Kerri Einarson is enjoying the prospect of a direct entry into the Canadian women's curling championship. Winning the Manitoba women's curling crown means avoiding Friday's sudden-...

JOHANNESBURG - The founder of the South African multi-Grammy-Award-winning music group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala, has died at age 78, the group and the government announced Tuesday. Sh...

OTTAWA - A second Canadian plane carrying evacuees from the quarantined region of Hubei, China, has landed at Canadian Forces Base Trenton in southern Ontario. Foreign Affairs Minister Franc...

CAIRO - Sudan's transitional government said Thursday it has reached a settlement with families of the victims of the 2000 attack on USS Cole in Yemen, in a bid to have the African country taken off t...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 11 ... What...