PRINCE GEORGE -- British Columbia's north coast is being hit by strong winds, rain and snow as an atmospheric river system brings weather warnings and another blast of winter to the region. Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an unusual move, President Donald Trump posted a graph Thursday night on social media that reflected jobs data from December that weren't supposed to be released until the Labor Department issued the monthly employment report Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. eastern. Read More

Unfortunately, in the current political and law enforcement environment, the shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good was inevitable. Politicians and courts have spent decades elevating police into a privileged class whose members demand deference and immediate obedience from the public. At the same time, the United States is fracturing along ideological and partisan lines with the factions becoming increasingly confrontational and violent. Those developments met in Minneapolis where Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) agents wielded as political weapons by the Trump administration ran up against opposition activists who have repeatedly clashed with the feds. Good died as a result. Read More

GATINEAU -- Canadian figure skaters supported the national governing body's decision to ice events in Alberta, while holding out hope that major competitions could one day return to the province. Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up an appeal from tech giant Cisco seeking to shut down a lawsuit claiming that the company's technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China. Read More

A mobile-phone video recorded by the federal immigration agent who shot and killed a woman this week in Minneapolis, and confirmed as authentic by the Department of Homeland Security, captures the scene in the moments leading up to the shooting and immediately after. Read More

CALGARY -- Dozens of people have joined a class-action lawsuit against Alberta's largest school board, alleging abuse at the hands of two former teachers. Read More

TORONTO -- At least two provinces in Canada say flu activity likely peaked over the holidays, while national data shows the number of new cases remains high but stabilized by the start of the new year. Read More

WINNIPEG -- Police have made an arrest after swastikas and other material were spray-painted on a mosque, a synagogue, a high school, vehicles, homes and other structures in areas west and southwest of downtown Winnipeg. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is calling for Ottawa to approve a new heavy oil pipeline to the West Coast by the fall, saying that a United States-backed Venezuela threatens to undercut Canada in the global energy market. Read More

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- CES 2026 offered a glimpse of a future that feels straight out of a sci-fi movie: bendable screens, paper-thin TVs and cars and gadgets that can think for themselves as they get to know you and your family's wants and needs. Read More

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) -- A shark attacked and killed an American woman along a beach in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, officials said Friday. Read More

NEW YORK (AP) -- NBC's return to broadcasting Major League Baseball games will start with an opening-day doubleheader on March 26. Read More

HALIFAX -- The Federal Court has overturned sanctions against a New Brunswick lobster processor that had banned the company from using the temporary foreign worker program and had fined it hundreds of thousands of dollars. Read More

TORONTO -- An Ontario man arrested in a sweep targeting alleged associates of Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding is asking the court to protect the identities of the people proposing to supervise him on bail. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal Public Safety department says 16 people took part in a pilot of its firearms compensation program that resulted in 25 banned guns being turned over and destroyed.  Read More

NEW YORK (AP) -- Luigi Mangione's federal death penalty trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson could begin before the end of the year, a judge said Friday while weighing a defense bid to bar the government from making it a capital case. Read More

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) -- Telluride Ski Resort in southwestern Colorado began to reopen Friday after a vote by striking ski patrollers to accept a contract and return to work. Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Treasury Department is taking a closer look at financial transactions between Minnesotan residents and businesses and Somalia as the federal government ramps up its immigration crackdown in the state, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters on Friday during a visit to the state. Read More

Iranian officials intensified a crackdown on protests across the country, blocking the internet and threatening participants with the death penalty amid expectations of further unrest on Friday night. Read More

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A use-of-force review board cleared the Ohio police officer who shot and killed 21-year-old Ta'Kiya Young, a pregnant Black mother who had been accused of shoplifting, according to a statement from the police department's chief released this week. Read More

OTTAWA — New backbench Liberal MP Michael Ma, who made headlines for crossing the floor from the Conservatives last month, will join Prime Minister Mark Carney on his first trip to China next week.   Read More

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month amid federal immigration enforcement in the city, the district said. Read More

BEIJING (AP) -- A week in which longtime tensions between neighbors China and Japan ratcheted up economically and politically drew to a close with no sign of improvements Friday as the Chinese ambassador in Tokyo rebuffed his host nation and the Japanese reported delayed shipments to suppliers in China because of the spat. Read More