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Durham police drug operation results in over 250 arrests, seizures of cash, cocaine and fentanyl...

A Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS) operation in downtown Oshawa dubbed Project Atlantis has resulted in over 250 arrests over the course of four months, along with seizures of cocaine, fentanyl, and cash. The probe, which DRPS officers described as...

Aug 5, 2026 | Local

Federal researchers say small harvesting changes may boost falling lobster catches

HALIFAX — Federal researchers are studying ways to boost falling lobster populations in the Maritimes as climate change and other issues in recent years have put pressure on catches. A new report from the Fisheries Department says there’s no single...

Aug 5, 2026 | Local

Man carrying ammo was monitoring security at Trump golf course near LA: authorities

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man carrying ammunition and with a gun in his car was arrested Sunday at President Donald Trump’s Los Angeles-area golf course after appearing to monitor security preparations two days ahead of Trump’s fundraiser there, authorities...

Aug 5, 2026 | Local

Ottawa moves to list Alberta-backed West Coast pipeline as national interest project

OTTAWA — The federal government is advancing the process to designate a proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a “national interest” project. Naming a project in the national interest under the Building Canada Act allows the government to...

Aug 5, 2026 | Local

Tiger shark caught off Massachusetts could be sign of warming waters

Nate Rouette and his brother Nelson went shark fishing on Cape Cod hoping for an exciting catch, but were shocked by what they reeled in — a tropical species of shark with a reputation for eating everything it can swallow....

Aug 4, 2026 | Local

25 states sue over Trump’s new tariffs, calling them ‘pretext’ to replace his old ones

WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty-five states sued the Trump administration Monday over its latest tariffs, calling them a pretext for replacing import taxes the Supreme Court struck down in February. The United States last month imposed double-digit tariffs on 59 countries...

Aug 4, 2026 | Local

Trump says Pirro ‘folded like an umbrella’ in bid to drop Reflecting Pool vandalism charges

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro “choked” and “folded like an umbrella” in moving to drop charges against a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Speaking at an unrelated...

Aug 4, 2026 | Local

Toronto Blue Jays trade Daulton Varsho to Houston Astros for Spencer Arrighetti

HOUSTON — The Toronto Blue Jays have agreed to trade Daulton Varsho to the Houston Astros. Toronto will also send cash considerations to the Astros and receive righty Spencer Arrighetti in return. Varsho may be in the Astros lineup Monday against the Blue Jays. Varsho, a...

Aug 4, 2026 | Local

Toronto Blue Jays trading Jeff Hoffman to Minnesota Twins

The Toronto Blue Jays have parted with their ex-closer. Right-hander Jeff Hoffman is being traded from Toronto to the Minnesota Twins, Sportsnet’s Ben Nicholson-Smith reports. Coming back in return for Hoffman are prospects Dasan Hill, John Klein and Dameury Pena, and $250,000...

Aug 4, 2026 | Local

5 things to know about the Canadian astronaut joining NASA’s Crew 13

A few months after Artemis II’s lunar flyby, another Canadian astronaut is preparing for a mission in space. The Canadian Space Agency’s Joshua Kutryk is one of four members assigned to NASA’s SpaceX Crew 13 mission. The crew will spend...

Aug 4, 2026 | Local