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OTTAWA - The Assembly of First Nations says decades of underfunding and failed fiduciary duties have created a $349-billion infrastructure gap. The assembly says the gap desperately needs to be closed...

PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state can enforce its long-dormant law criminalizing all abortions except when a mother's life is at stake. The case examined whether th...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over a five-year period but didn't consistently track the outcomes or effectiveness of its programs, according to state au...

MONTREAL - French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal will visit Ottawa, Quebec City and Montreal during a three-day trip to Canada that begins Wednesday. Attal will land in Ottawa where he is scheduled to m...

MILAN (AP) - An explosion Tuesday at a hydroelectric plant in northern Italy killed at least three workers and seriously injured five others, a regional fire chief said. At least four other people wer...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's once powerful oil minister who quit last year has been arrested on allegations of corruption, the government announced Tuesday. The Ministry of Communications rel...

TORONTO - Ricardo Pasquel survived a Canadian winter. Now the fun really begins The Mexico City native and his two brothers, Eduardo and Miguel, are looking forward to their first season as owners of ...

UTICA - A women's world junior hockey championship will happen, but is at least five years away, says the International Ice Hockey Federation. Canada and the United States want that timeline shortened...

TORONTO - A group that includes two-time Olympic gold medal curler John Morris and former NFL player Jared Allen has purchased the Grand Slam of Curling tour from Sportsnet. The Curling Group, a sport...

LONDON (AP) - Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called "God particle" that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the Un...