A Good Friday meal of baked ham and scalloped potatoes and Rogers’ chocolate cream-filled hearts delivered by the Easter bunny was enjoyed by fewer people this year amid the pandemic, but the smiles on the faces of those who came were just as big...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sports, theatre and music fans will be able to take their seats again in California as the state's coronavirus cases plummet and vaccinations jump.After a year-long ban on most indoor seating, the state Friday set the stage for...

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $15 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw.The jackpot for the next draw on Apr. 6 will grow to an estimated $20 million.

WINNIPEG — A rolling puck that nearly got away from Jason Spezza on his shootout attempt was the kind of situation that could easily lead to a missed opportunity. The Maple Leafs forward instead displayed a veteran's touch by handling the challenge...

The Spirit of Vancouver Island turned around and headed back to dock at Swartz Bay on Friday after a passenger refused to wear a mask and created a disturbance. Several groups of people who are opposed to wearing masks during the pandemic and oth...

MONTREAL — Protesters marched through Montreal's Plateau borough Friday afternoon to denounce what many described as a "pandemic" of violence against women, after a slate of recent killings. Eight women have been killed by current or former intimat...

HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. — April, the giraffe that became a sensation when a rural New York zoo livestreamed her 2017 pregnancy and delivery, was euthanized Friday because of advancing arthritis, the zoo said."She is a precious member of our family, and ...

VICTORIA — British Columbia is applying for a partial stay in a recent B.C. Supreme Court ruling about jurisdiction over motor vehicle injury disputes, pending its appeal of the same decision, Attorney General David Eby said this week. The March 2 ...

NEW YORK — Atlanta lost Major League Baseball’s summer All-Star Game on Friday over the league’s objections to sweeping changes to Georgia voting laws that critics — including the CEOs of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola — have c...

OTTAWA — Three of the provinces hardest-hit by COVID-19 spent their second pandemic-era Good Friday either adjusting to or bracing for stricter public health measures meant to bring resurgent case counts back in check.Three regions of Quebec, inclu...

ROSWELL, N.M. — Tourism officials in New Mexico have raised concerns about people confusing a UFO Festival with downtown alien-related events because of similar domain names searched online.The 2021 Roswell UFO Festival will get a marketing boost a...

WASHINGTON — A Capitol Police officer was killed Friday after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and then emerged wielding a knife. It was the second line-of-duty death this year for a department still stru...

Two legal challenges to the Trump administration's execution of the 2020 census neared conclusions this week in the face of changes brought by President Joe Biden's administration since he took office last January.A group of primarily Latino and Asia...

OTTAWA — Canada and other G7 nations are denouncing what they describe as human rights violations and calling for immediate access for humanitarian aid groups in Ethiopia's conflict-ridden Tigray region.Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau and his...

The provincial government will apply for a stay of proceedings after the B.C. Supreme Court ruled against its plan to use the ICBC resolution tribunal for minor injury claims. B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson ruled last month ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch government said Friday it is temporarily halting AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccinations for people under 60 following reports of very small number of people suffering unusual blood clots after receiving the shot.The...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):6:10 p.m.Alberta's chief medical health officer says the province had an estimated 1,100 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours.Dr. Deena Hinshaw tweeted that there was about an ...

A group of Inuit women gather around a table over cups of coffee and speak to each other in a language that is expected to vanish over the next two generations. The women live in Cambridge Bay in western Nunavut. They're speaking Inuinnaqtun, a d...

The United States and Iran said Friday they will begin indirect negotiations with intermediaries next week to try to get both countries back into compliance with an accord limiting Iran’s nuclear program, nearly three years after President Donald T...

JERUSALEM — Christians in the Holy Land marked Good Friday without the mass pilgrimages usually seen in the days leading up to Easter because of the coronavirus, and worshippers in many other predominantly Christian countries where the virus is sti...