Politics

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s opposition parties say they're skeptical of the province's shrinking family doctor wait-list as they hear from constituents who’ve been removed from the list only to wait months for access to primary care.

NEW YORK (AP) — George Santos is defending his recent social media tirade to a federal judge who will be sentencing the disgraced former New York congressman later this week on fraud charges.

TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford's government has been ordered to keep its hands off three major Toronto bike lanes until a judge can decide whether a plan to remove them is unconstitutional.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The infighting and backstabbing that plagued President Donald Trump’s first term have returned as a threat to his second, with deepening fissures over trade, national security and questions of personal loyalty.

HALIFAX — The group behind a project to build North America's first coastal refuge for captive whales in Nova Scotia has renewed its bid to provide a seaside sanctuary for two killer whales living in a shuttered marine park in France. But the U.S.

As drivers on U.S. highways cross from one state to another, they often are greeted by a large “Welcome to ....” sign. But not all drivers are welcome in every state.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser tried to keep the focus on a groundbreaking ceremony for a new mixed-used development.

EDMONTON — Health officials in Alberta are reporting 29 new cases of measles, bringing the province's total to 118 since early March.

COLWOOD — A British Columbia city on Vancouver Island that's hiring doctors as municipal employees is "very close" to hiring two more physicians, and its mayor believes it will eventually exceed its goal of hiring eight in total.

New York environmental workers who came with a warrant looking for Peanut the squirrel found the scampering social media star on a bathtub. His housemate, Fred the raccoon, was in a suitcase in a bedroom closet. Soon after the Oct.