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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators on Thursday approved a controversial proposal to greatly increase storage capacity at the site of the nation's largest known methane leak, which sickened thousands of families and forced them from their Los An

HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla.

OMAHA, Neb.

LONGUEUIL, Que. — A Quebec Superior Court judge has ruled that a city south of Montreal can proceed with a plan to cull most of the white-tailed deer that have overrun a local park. Justice Bernard Jolin said Longueuil, Que.

ATLANTA (AP) — Residential customers of Georgia's largest electrical utility could see their bills rise $9 more a month to pay for a new nuclear power plant under a deal announced Wednesday. Georgia Power Co. said customers would pay $7.

OCEAN CITY, N.J.

TORONTO — Ontario's housing minister offered an apology Thursday for the way the government removed land earmarked for development from the protected Greenbelt, a process two legislative watchdogs have said was hasty and flawed.

Ontario Housing Minister Steve Clark apologized Thursday for his role in the government's Greenbelt land swap, a day after the province's integrity commissioner found he violated two sections of the Members Integrity Act.

CALGARY — The Alberta government said Thursday it still expects a $2.4-billion surplus by the end of the fiscal year, despite slightly lower oil prices and wildfires that have already burned through most of its contingency fund.

Fifteen years after polar bears were listed as threatened, a new study says researchers have overcome a roadblock in the Endangered Species Act that prevented the federal government from considering climate change when evaluating impacts of projects