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CALGARY — The Harper government has given the “green” light to eight projects aimed at developing carbon capture and storage technologies.

EDMONTON — Alberta Justice says a man who was Tasered by Edmonton police in October died from a condition called excited delirium — not from the effects of being hit by the electronic stun gun.

CALGARY — Environmentalists are calling an Alberta government document aimed at giving people an unbiased look at the possibility of nuclear power in the province “fraudulent.”

It’s called a white-crested laughing thrush and it’s bringing smiles to zookeepers in upstate New York.

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More proof that smoking is hazardous to your health.

Twenty-two students at St. Mary’s College of California have done something their predecessors famously did 50 years ago: crammed into a phone booth.

A suspect in a Connecticut bank robbery, who police say crashed his getaway car and fled by bus and taxi before finally making it home and finding his roommate dead, has appeared in court to face a federal charge.

Chinese state media reports forestry officials in far western China have resorted to scattering abortion pills near gerbil burrows in a bid to halt a rodent plague threatening the desert region’s ecosystem.

Syncrude Canada has been granted an extra three months to enter a plea in response to government charges for the deaths of 500 ducks last year.Justice Stephanie Cleary put over the plea until June 10 after Robert White, lead defence attorney for Syncrude, asked for the extension for time to examine the case against the oilsands company.