Politics

TORONTO — Ontario is investing $1.6 billion for two new buildings at a mental health hospital in Toronto. The province says the money will go toward the design and construction of the buildings at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

OTTAWA — The federal government has appointed a new ethics commissioner with the support of opposition parties. Konrad von Finckenstein, who had been serving as acting ethics commissioner since August, was given the official title today.

Two years ago, Ihor Weryha finally felt ready to retire. The Mississauga, Ont., resident had spent 40 years working in the petrochemical industry, most of which had been evenly split between two companies.

REDDING, Calif.

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) — When New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy walked up to Rep. Andy Kim last weekend to congratulate him with a handshake after the second of three consecutive wins in his bid for a U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia makes battlefield advances and Ukrainian soldiers run short on ammunition, U.S.

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont town has acted on the notion that young voters offer hope for the future, giving 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote next week in local elections.

WASHINGTON (AP) — North Dakota will hold its Republican presidential caucuses on Monday, the last chance for Donald Trump’s rivals for the GOP nomination to slow his momentum heading into Super Tuesday , the biggest day of the primary campaign, when

HARRISBURG, Pa.

FREDERICTON — Innocence Canada says a "satisfactory" conditional settlement has been reached between the New Brunswick government and two men who were wrongfully convicted of a 1983 murder.