The number of doctors — there are nearly 70,000 — and their salaries are both at all-time highs. More Canadians have a family doctor than in years past, proof that progress has been made. But access to them is among the worst in the world. How can that be?

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following editorial, among the most famous ever written, appeared in The New York Sun in 1897 and remains appropriate for this holiday season 114 years later.

A week after Hannaford supermarkets pulled suspect ground beef from their shelves, Maine consumers still have questions.

Imagine what a picture it would make for next year’s Christmas card: A new four-legged and furry family member on Christmas morning. But wait just a sugarplum minute, Santa.

Gov. Paul LePage made a rare appearance in a legislative hearing room this week and was not shy about saying that he didn’t like what he saw.

Christmas was controversial from the moment it arrived in the New World with the first European settlers. And, despite the intervening four centuries, it has intermittently remained so ever since.

We rise in defense of the Christmas sweater, a festive addition to the holiday that is unfairly maligned and ridiculed.

It’s a seasonal tradition, as predictable as wreaths and reindeer: Social conservatives accuse the news media, government, public schools and culture in general of waging a “war on Christmas.”

Canadian oil giant Suncor Energy Inc. has finally pulled the pin on its operations in Syria to comply with international sanctions for the Assad regime’s murderous response to once-peaceful democratic uprisings.

President Barack Obama had pledged to run an administration that would keep politics out of decisions that should be decided on the basis of scientific judgment.