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Bryan Seaver, Dolly Parton’s nephew and longtime head of security, is embroiled in a nasty and very public legal battle with the company managing her estate.

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The woman who says several men raped her at a Cornell University fraternity party was "misled" about the status of the criminal investigation in the weeks after she went to police, her lawyer said Wednesday.

A convicted sex offender who sexually abused a 13-year-old boy whose family didn't know about the man's criminal past because he'd changed his name has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Premier Danielle Smith says it was “absurd” and “ridiculous” for prominent separatists to offer the United States government access to fresh water and resource royalties in return for its help establishing an independent Alberta.

The former U.S. army officer convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, is scheduled to be executed by firing squad in December in what would be the first U.S. military execution in more than 65 years.

A monthly report from Rentals.ca and Urbanation said the figures mark two full years of annual declines, the longest downturn the Canadian rental market has experienced in recent history.

The fraud trial for a suspended Ontario lawyer ping-ponged back and forth on whether TD Bank had suffered any harm or risk of loss as a result of a bad cheque the lawyer wrote.

A Liberal MP is calling for more guardrails as the Carney government moves to fast-track construction of projects like pipelines, mines and ports with a major piece of legislation currently before Parliament.

Four horses were travelling from across Western Canada to compete in the Equestrian Canada National Dressage West championship in Langley.

In the months leading up to a sword attack at a Brandon, Man., high school, a teen wrote in a notebook about "invaders" of Canada — specifically Black and Muslim immigrants — and his mass murder plan, a court heard Tuesday.

Tropical Storm Isaias formed Wednesday in the warm waters off eastern Mexico and forecasters predicted it will quickly strengthen into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before striking the U.S.

France has been thrown into crisis as student-led protests erupted across the nation, calling for better conditions for learning and for the government to address a decade-long staffing shortage.

Federal Defence Minister David McGuinty is reminding Albertans of billions of dollars in military spending and that a strong Canada includes a strong Alberta.

The Liberal government announced on Wednesday that it is introducing a new bill that would amend more than 30 laws in an effort to reduce red tape in the federal bureaucracy.

The federal government has withdrawn sponsorship of a European disinformation conference that includes panels discussing the U.S. government as a foreign interference risk.

The proposed framework includes requiring a Class 5 driver's licence, following applicable traffic rules, providing adequate space for cyclists and picking up manure.

Stewart Wilson testified it felt like "TV stuff" as he sat in self-described "Crypto King" Aiden Pleterski’s lakefront mansion five years ago and the young man told him he was operating a $30-$50 million investment fund.

Starbucks has been sued by U.S. consumers who said the coffee chain falsely advertised eight protein beverages as "sugar-free" because they contain lactose, a naturally occurring sugar in milk.

NASA has released a striking image of dawn on the Martian surface taken by its Curiosity rover, showing sunlight bathing ‌jagged crags formed billions of years ago as the car-sized vehicle continues to explore Earth's planetary neighbour.

A top official with the World Health Organization said Wednesday the UN health agency doesn't know how a lab worker in Siberia died amid concerns about plague, and is urging Russia to provide more information.

Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields festival won praise for its all-woman lineup and charitable focus on reproductive rights and fighting gender-based violence.

Maya Turner just keeps putting the boots to the history books for Canadian university football.

The federal government will introduce legislation this fall that will indefinitely extend the ban on access to a medically assisted death for people who are only suffering from a mental illness, Justice Minister Sean Fraser said on Wednesday.

Author and former UBC professor Steven Galloway says he was "shocked" to learn he was being accused of sexual assault, and believed he had split amicably after an affair with the former student making the allegation.

The rare discovery of a nursery with billions of baby sea cucumbers in the ocean water near Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, is helping researchers better understand the species – and could some day generate income for the Arctic hamlet.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser and Health Minister Marjorie Michel hold a news conference to announce next steps on the government's medical assistance in dying laws.

A constitutional lawyer has filed an emergency injunction in an attempt to force the incoming Parti Québécois government to swear allegiance to King Charles.

The Weston family holding company Wittington Investments said Wednesday that it will purchase the U.K. chain Boots for $8.9 billion US, including debt, from private equity firm Sycamore Partners.

More than 200,000 people have been displaced across Yemen as fighting between Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed government forces has intensified in recent weeks, the United Nations's migration agency says.

The families of thousands of people who remain missing in Nepal weeks after catastrophic floods devastated the country have expressed mixed feelings after the government said this week that it is stopping the search for victims.

Volunteers spent three weeks trying to track and capture the dog, which is a rescue from Spain, where the breed is routinely killed after a career in racing.

Two First Nations are challenging the construction of Bell Canada's AI data centre south of Regina, saying the project is moving ahead without consultation or adequate information about its environmental impacts.

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Russian missiles and drones pounded Kyiv and a dozen other Ukrainian regions overnight into Wednesday, killing at least 12 civilians, including three children, and wounding more than 40 in Moscow's latest devastating barrage, Ukrainian officials said.

With the election of the Parti Québécois in Quebec, Canada will have its first separatist government in over a decade.

With the N.W.T. and Manitoba ending daylight savings, Nunavut's Kitikmeot and Kivalliq regions will be out of sync with their provincial and territorial neighbors.

There's a deadly disease that threatens to infect Manitoba frogs and salamanders — and it could wreak havoc if left unchecked.

Israelis gathered on Wednesday to commemorate the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack that killed 1,200 people, saw 251 taken hostage, and sparked a devastating war in Gaza that has left much of the territory in ruins and its two million people living in dire…

Nackawic's pulp mill will cease operations on Nov. 4, putting an estimated 350 employees out of work.

As Israelis and Palestinians mark the sombre anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that began the three-year war between Israel and Hamas, people in Gaza are also starting to look to the future.

As residents continue to move into the new temporary shelter village in Thunder Bay, Ont., the project has sparked debate on social media among municipal election candidates about drugs being allowed at the site.

Arizona State University says it commissioned an independent review to make recommendations following the collapse and hospitalization of Canadian NHL prospect Matthew Mayich during a workout.

Firefighters have raised alarms about hot, fast, hard-to-extinguish fires in lithium batteries from e-bikes in people's homes and huge storage batteries at a P.E.I. solar farm.

Refugee rights advocates say they are shocked to hear that the federal immigration minister appeared in an interview with Radio-Canada to be unfamiliar with the landmark Supreme Court decision widely considered to be the cornerstone of the Canadian refugee

The first-ever international guidelines on managing childhood obesity are raising the profile of GLP-1 treatments for kids and teens — but with strict criteria and a high degree of caution.

Artists Rashad Maharaj and Trevor Wheatley, along with event organizer Brandon Wong, tell The National about the moment they held a funeral for Toronto's famous 'Inconvenience Store,' a floating art installation in the city's harbour.

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