NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2014

Gun-related message boards lit up this week over news of the arrest of an American man at the Canadian border. Retired U.S. Army sergeant major Louis DiNatale and his wife were on a romantic getaway from Kentucky to Vermont when they say their GPS led the

The government's cuts to federal science budgets and its changes to policy are damaging scientists' ability to serve and protect the public, according to a new survey.

Michelle Chapman, from Cornwall, is thought to be the first person in the UK to have been prosecuted for "trolling" herself. Chapman set up fake accounts in the name of her father and new stepmother; sending herself hundreds of abusive messages of 'very u

An Ottawa teacher who is the drummer in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's band has been charged with numerous sexual assault charges involving a minor.

From Yahoo News Canada: A nuclear-capable U.S. B-52 bomber sortie over South Korea has endangered plans for reunions between families from the North and South of the country and risks triggering a further escalation of military tension, North Korea said o

A Texas judge's reaffirmation placing a teen involved in a DWI fatal accident on probation is drawing fresh outrage from the victims' families.

The USA's domestic energy boom is increasing demands on limited water supplies already under pressure by drought conditions and growing populations, a new report says.

Twenty years of satellite data indicate many more of the icy lakes that dominate Alaska's Arctic coastal plain no longer freeze right through to the bottom in winter.

Eastern Florida State College has changes its policy to allow guns that are secured in cars following a shooting in the parking lot last week.

How did huge mammals like woolly mammoths sustain themselves when they roamed the Arctic during the last Ice Age? A DNA analysis has solved that mystery and helps explain the rise and fall of giant mammals.

A sniper attack in April that knocked out an electrical substation near San Jose, Calif., has raised fears that the country's power grid is vulnerable to terrorism.

While Alberta may be a leader in terms of energy in North America, its dead last when it comes to efficiency, according to a new study.

In the snarly debate about how many grizzlies roam Alberta, it's an undeniable fact: there are now a whole lot less of them, thanks to poachers. Thirty-one dead grizzly bears for 2013 is the gruesome tally announced Tuesday by Alberta Environment and Sust

The most controversial part of the new bill will be the structural changes to Elections Canada, an agency that many Conservatives feel is biased against them

The mere mention of the word procurement probably makes federal ministers restless in their seats. Military procurement has, shall we say, not gone well for the Tory government. So rare is the occasion that the army or air force or navy execute the big bu

A rare and bloody confrontation between a group of killer whales and a school of dolphins stunned onlookers in Nanaimo, B.C. on Monday.

RevMedx recently asked the FDA to approve a pocket-size invention: a modified syringe that injects specially coated sponges into wounds. Called XStat, the device could boost survival and spare injured soldiers from additional pain by plugging wounds faste

The EU is developing a secret plan to give the police the power to control cars by switching the engine off remotely.

The number of executions carried out by Iranian authorities has risen sharply since President Hassan Rouhani took office in August, a surge most likely because of a secret power struggle within Iran's notoriously veiled political system.

Support is pouring in for a Victoria, B.C., man who will have to say goodbye to his wife the day their son is born.

The NDP is renewing its mission to cap ATM fees, saying the cost of withdrawing cash at bank machines should be capped at 50 cents per transaction.

One of the victims of the notorious Skaf gang said the release of the sixth member of the group, known only as 'H' had left her fearful.

A CBC News investigation has unearthed a critical report that the federal regulator effectively buried for several years about a rupture on a trouble-prone TransCanada natural gas pipeline.

W. Ford Doolittle, a Dalhousie University biologist whose ideas about evolution sparked controversy among scientists and caught the attention of creationists, has won the $1 million Herzberg Medal, Canada's top science prize.

18,000 people have until now been trapped inside the Yarmouk refugee camp, since the army imposed a total blockade in June

Riverside County prosecutors filed felony charges Monday against a former teacher accused of sexually assaulting two students, one of whom made her accusations public in a video posted on YouTube.

Gay and bisexual teen boys use illicit steroids at a rate almost six times higher than do straight kids, a "dramatic disparity" that points up a need to reach out to this group, researchers say. News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of Washington DC

A California start-up is turning out capsule-shaped robots that it says could serve as the eyes and ears of base police units.

420 shares 9 View comments It is a weapon that could mean the end of traditional missiles. Lockheed Martin revealed it has tested the A 30-kilowatt electric fiber laser, the highest power ever fired.

A southwestern Ontario humane society is asking for the public's help in identifying those responsible for what they're calling a "horrific animal cruelty" case.

Thousands of stray dogs have been living amid the mud and rubble of Olympic construction sites, but as the games drew near, authorities have turned to a company to catch and kill the animals so they don't bother Sochi's new visitors.

It's a story that almost defies belief: a man leaves Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing and ends up surviving 13 months on fish, birds and turtles before washing ashore on the remote Marshall Islands some 8,800 kilometres away.

Another new study points to sugar as a heart breaker, literally. But Americans are starting to wise up.

An Alberta man who shot and wounded two Mounties during a standoff has been given a plea deal of nearly eight years, in part because officers didn't announce who they were before breaking into his home. Court heard Monday that the RCMP tried to use a f

Spokesman for chief electoral officer Marc Mayrand says he was neither consulted nor given any heads-up about what the proposed changes entail

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's national security adviser on Monday defended the collection of Canadians' metadata by Canada's surveillance agency, calling it "data about data." Watch live as the Senate's national defence committee hears from the heads of

An Ottawa family of four, including a 22-year-old son and 26-year-old daughter, is facing more than 60 drug charges in connection with alleged cocaine trafficking to Australia, Russia, India, the U.S. and several other countries.

Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has been appointed to be the U.N. special envoy for cities and climate change.

Analysis: Though slated for official repeal in June, Canada's defunct and much maligned hate speech law, Section 13, is not going gently

A Middle Eastern refugee who grabbed, groped and licked female joggers on a popular running route in Christchurch has today avoided jail and been granted permanent name suppression.

A mining and smelting company spilled a large volume of chemical solution into a domestic sewer line near Trail, B.C., on Tuesday.

A Japanese whaling ship and a protest boat have collided in the remote, icy seas off Antarctica, and both sides are blaming each other for the crash.

Canada's major prognosticating rodents provided a split decision on whether the country is in for an early spring or six more weeks of winter.

The Seattle Seahawks had one of the greatest performances in an NFL title game, sparked by second-year QB Russell Wilson and a defence that ranks among the best ever. Seattle won their first Super Bowl crown in overpowering fashion, punishing Peyton Manni

To make a Canadian moguls team in an era when Canada is a superpower in the sport is no mean feat

Woody Allen's adopted daughter Dylan Farrow repeats accusations that the filmmaker sexually assaulted her when she was 7 years old.

The Quebec coroner's office is conducting an autopsy on Naima Rharouity, a 47-year-old mother of two who was killed after her scarf became caught in an escalator at a Montreal train station.

The Somali family say that Harrow council in London placed their daughter with the couple despite protests, and four offers from extended family members.

An armed New York man was arrested Friday after allegedly threatening to kill former President George W. Bush, according to a federal court complaint.

Dressed in his leathers and sunglasses, and sitting on top of his 1967 Electra Glide cruiser, Billy Standley, who died on Sunday, was taken on a last right to his Ohio grave.

According to SeekingArrangement.com, one million students worldwide logged onto the site in search of wealthy benefactors, and based on 2013 sign-ups, seven Ontario universities made the grade. York University topped the list, with 209 students signed up