NEW DELHI — An official says an overcrowded bus has driven off a bridge and into a canal in central India, killing at least 40 people.District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Choudhary says six people were rescued after the accident Tuesday in Madhya Pra...

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. 16...What we are watching in Canada ...There is new guidance from Canada's national advisor...

MONTREAL — Ottawa needs to address the funding and access problems regarding post-secondary education that have been aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a coalition of university faculty, student and labour groups.Rising tuition coupl...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Tuesday Feb. 16, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 1,704 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,272,470 doses given. The provinces have administered doses at a...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Tuesday Feb. 16, 2021.There are 826,924 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 826,924 confirmed cases (35,684 active, 769,929 resolved, 21,311 deaths).*The total case count inc...

EDMONTON — One of North America's top experts on pollution from coal mines is warning Albertans about the dangers of expanding the industry in the province's Rocky Mountains."Expansion of coal-mining up the Alberta Rockies chain will absolutely pro...

OTTAWA — A group of prominent Canadians is calling on the CBC to rethink its decision to significantly cut staff and rebrand the globally focused Radio Canada International to focus on domestic news. Wojtek Gwiazda, spokesman for the group trying t...

OTTAWA — The vast majority of Canadians blame Ottawa rather than provincial governments for delays in COVID-19 vaccine delivery, a new poll suggests.Sixty-nine per cent of respondents believe Canada is behind on deliveries due to federal challenges...

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — A provincial inquiry investigating why a former Canadian soldier killed his family and himself is set to resume today in Nova Scotia.On Jan. 3, 2017, Lionel Desmond used a semi-automatic rifle to kill his 52-year-old mother ...

EDMONTON — Defence lawyers for an Ontario man accused of killing a woman found dead in the bathtub of his Edmonton hotel room are to begin closing arguments today.Bradley Barton is accused of manslaughter in the death of Cindy Gladue, a 36-year-old...

Ed Wojczynski couldn’t find his wallet anywhere.He’d cycled downtown with a friend, popped into a shop on lower Johnson Street, reached for his money and … gone.“I looked in the store. I looked up and down the street.”Nothing.Bummer. It was...

LLEIDA, Spain — A 24-hour standoff between police and a rapper barricaded with dozens of his supporters in a university ended Tuesday with anti-riot officers arresting the artist.Pablo Hasél was escorted by riot police out of Lleida University's r...

NEW YORK — Salsa idol Johnny Pacheco, who was a co-founder of Fania Records, Eddie Palmieri’s bandmate and backer of music stars such as Rubén Bladés, Willie Colón and Celia Cruz, died Monday. He was 85.He had been hospitalized in New York a f...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Monday Feb. 15, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 1,704 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,272,470 doses given. The provinces have administered doses a...

WINNIPEG — Tyler Gaudet scored twice as the Toronto Marlies downed the Manitoba Moose 3-2 on Monday in the American Hockey League season opener for both teams.Gaudet tied the game in the second period, then broke a 2-2 deadlock at 11:44 of the thir...

RED DEER, Alta. — Olymel has announced it is temporarily closing a pork plant in central Alberta where health officials say hundreds of COVID-19 cases are now connected with an outbreak at the facility.In a statement Monday, the company said manage...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:25 p.m. ET on Monday Feb. 15, 2021.There are 826,924 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 826,924 confirmed cases (35,684 active, 769,929 resolved, 21,311 deaths).*The total case count i...

Snowfall warnings were issued Monday for the Malahat area of the Trans-Canada Highway and east and inland Vancouver Island.Environment Canada is forecasting 10 to 15 centimetres of snow before rain falls in the afternoon.As much as 25 centimetres has...

OTTAWA — The scathing report that led to Julie Payette's resignation as governor general was published only in English and that has prompted a complaint to Canada's official languages commissioner.Conservative Sen. Claude Carignan has written Raymo...

REGINA — When most people across the Prairies left their homes Monday, they faced the cold — but not the icy blast of a polar vortex kind of cold.A meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada says the Artic air that moved into Albert...