Health officials have issued an emergency boil water order for the city of Prince Albert, Sask., after tests found dangerous pathogens in the city's water supply.

RCMP from five detachments have surrounded the rural residence near Killam, Alta., at the centre of the shooting of two officers Tuesday afternoon.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper opened a Canadian tourism office in Beijing highlighting the centennial of the Calgary Stampede as a reason for more Chinese to travel to Canada.

Rick Santorum has won Minnesota's Republican caucuses, breaking Mitt Romney's winning streak in the race for the GOP presidential nomination.

Canada's top court is set to hear the case of two HIV-positive Canadians who did not disclose their medical condition to their sexual partners.

Ten migrant workers killed near Stratford, Ont. on Monday — including a father and son — are being remembered as hard-working and fun-loving people who were trying to build a better life for their families.

Relatively few postmenopausal women at high risk for breast cancer are taking a generic drug proven to reduce the disease's occurrence.

Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq is standing firm on taking a voluntary approach with the food industry on trans fat, even though newly released documents show her department was ready to impose regulations in 2009.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has reversed Canadian policy, quietly directing Canada's spy agency to use information that may have been extracted through torture in cases where public safety is at stake.

Atlantic Canadians are increasingly facing "energy poverty" due to a reliance on foreign sources of oil, an expert on energy security told a parliamentary committee.