Politics

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Los Angeles City Council member was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for a pay-to-play bribery scandal involving real estate development projects. José Huizar, 55, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John F.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former West Virginia coal executive Don Blankenship, who lost by a wide margin when he ran for a U.S.

RIVIERE-AU-RENARD, Que. — Nearly three decades after a moratorium was put in place, the commercial redfish fishery is set to reopen in Quebec and Atlantic Canada this year, Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier announced Friday.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's new seniors advocate is Dan Levitt, an adjunct professor of gerontology at Simon Fraser University and the head of a non-profit long-term care home.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The federal housing advocate was in St. John's, N.L., this week to join the leader of the Nunatsiavut Inuit in his long-standing fight for an end to the "deplorable" housing conditions in northern Labrador.

RIFLE, Colo. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep.

OTTAWA — Canada's former justice minister says he would have no fear of pressing ahead with a plan to allow people to seek medical assistance in dying solely on the basis of mental illness.

TIMONIUM, Md. (AP) — Maryland U.S. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger announced Friday that he won’t seek a 12th term in Congress, meaning that at least three of the state's eight U.S. House seats will be open on the November ballot.

WINNIPEG — The proposed search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two slain First Nations women could cost $90 million — about half the projected maximum in an earlier estimate — although searchers could face a "very high risk" from asbes

OTTAWA — Several people arrested for drug-related offences must face a new trial because a judge improperly stayed the charges against them, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.