NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2014

A violent drug dealer who hid from police in the basement of his Onoway house for 17 years was sent to prison Friday.

A win on Monday would give the Edmonton Eskimos a whole lot to be thankful for.

Alberta Health Services unveiled a new $15.8 million clinic at the Stollery Children's Hospital on Friday with the help of a few legendary hockey players.

In a dramatic appeal, a UN official warned that hundreds of civilians who remain trapped in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani near the border with Turkey were likely to be "massacred" by advancing extremists and called on Ankara to help prevent a catastro

The sudden new reality of $85 US a barrel oil is a jarring wake-up to Canada's economy, especially governments in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador that depend on oil money.

The B.C. government has announced further details of the plan for alcohol to be sold in the province's grocery stores.

A court in Minsk jails eight Ukrainian football fans after they sang an insulting song about Russian President Vladimir Putin at a match.

Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India are this year's winners of the Nobel Peace Prize 'for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people, and for the right of all children to education.'

The office responsible for investigating allegations of police actions causing harm confirmed Thursday that it is looking into an incident in Terrace, B.C.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella apologized Thursday night and said he was wrong for saying that women don't need to ask for a raise and should just trust the system to pay them well.

The Conservative government is doubling the children's fitness tax credit in time for parents to file their taxes next spring, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday.

Cranberry sauce is likely to add a tang to the rich flavours filling many Thanksgiving dinner plates across Canada this weekend. But the tartness some diners seek is just one of the many benefits that can be reaped from the bright red berry.

A Hazmat team rushed on to a plane from Philadelphia in the Dominican Republic after a man sneezed and yelled: 'I have Ebola!'

The energy drink company is offering anyone who has bought the drink in the last 12 years, either a $10 cash payment or $15 worth of Red Bull products.

The woman had to confess to cheating on her husband with the dwarf after giving birth to a baby with dwarfism at a hospital in Valencia, Spain, it was reported.

After a sun-singed jacket, some software glitches and more than a year with blue construction fence around a beautification project, city officials have removed a $559,000 art sculpture from in front of a northeast Calgary recreation centre, unsure it can

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been out of sight for over a month and if he does not appear at a key political event early on Friday, speculation will intensify over his health and grip on power in the secretive country.

It didn't take long for Mason Raymond to make an impact with the Calgary Flames. Raymond recorded his third career hat trick as Calgary spoiled the home opener of their provincial rivals, defeating the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 on Thursday.

A manhunt continues in B.C.'s Kootenays, where police believe they have cornered a man thought to be armed with multiple guns, who allegedly shot at RCMP officers earlier in the day.

It was just like old times at Rexall Place on Wednesday afternoon, with Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey and several other players from the 1984 Stanley Cup-winning Edmonton Oilers reuniting for the first time in years.

Travis Vader, once accused in the murders of missing Alberta seniors Lyle and Marie McCann, says RCMP "destroyed" his life with an investigation that kept him jailed for more than four years.

It's estimated that up to 200 Kosovans have become radicalised and have left their homes to fighting in Syria and Iraq - causing heartbreak for those left behind.

The RCMP has about 63 active security investigations on 90 suspected extremists who intend to join fights abroad or who have returned to Canada, said Bob Paulson, commissioner of the national police force.

There aren't a lot of streets in the UAE's Liwa Desert, but you can now explore its massive, sandy dunes on Google Street View anyway.

More than three quarters of Canadians in a new online poll supported doctor-assisted suicide, as the issue heads the Supreme Court next week.

Several dozen police officers are combing through a wooded area in Ontario's Springwater Township, as they follow up a tip in the high-profile, nearly three-decades-old disappearance of Nicole Morin.

Investigators trying to figure out the cause of a major derailment near Clair, Sask., have ruled out mistakes by the train's operators, Transportation Safety Board officials told CBC News.

A senior Manitoba judge whose husband posted nude photographs of her on the Internet without telling her will no longer have to defend herself against sexual harassment allegations as part of a bitter fight to keep her job, The Canadian Press has learned.

Some major U.S. television networks say they'll pull out of Canada or consider streaming all their content online if a proposal to unbundle Canadian cable packages and let customers pay for a few select channels goes ahead.

Pope Francis has insisted on an open debate and welcomed people to challenge him at the "extraordinary synod" underway at the Vatican, a move David Perlich says is extraordinary in itself.

The threat of ISIS to Canada is real, but Canada's spy agency has no information suggesting it's one that's imminent, CSIS director Michel Coulombe told the House public safety committee on Wednesday.

The NHL opens another season Wednesday night, with a pair of all-Canadian matchups involving longtime rivals, the debuts of goalies Ryan Miller and Jonas Hiller with new teams and the raising of the Stanley Cup banner in Los Angeles.

Travellers coming from Ebola-affected West African countries to the U.S. can expect enhanced screening and temperature checks as health officials step up efforts to prevent the spread of the disease. Canada will also use temperature screening in some case

Wayne Gretzky admits that it was his dad Walter who convinced him to play for the Los Angeles Kings when the historic trade was made with the Edmonton Oilers back in 1988.

The Los Angeles Kings received their much-anticipated Stanley Cup rings with players proudly tweeting out their new 136 round diamonds.

Canadian government scientists face far more restrictions on talking to the media than their U.S. counterparts, a new analysis suggests.

The cold waters of Earth's deep ocean have not warmed measurably since 2005, according to a new NASA study, leaving unsolved the mystery of why global warming appears to have slowed in recent years.

Nasa says it now covers more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late 1970s.

Officers arrested two men aged 20, and another two aged 21, who are tonight being held in police stations in central London. It is believed that at least one of the men had travelled to Syria.

The largest ever medical study into near-death and out-of-body experiences has discovered that awareness may continue even after the brain has shut down completely.

A divided House of Commons voted Tuesday in favour of sending Canadian aircraft and personnel to join coalition airstrikes in Iraq against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria targets.

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is flattered that North American cities without hockey teams are interested in adding one to their towns, but it just isn't in the plans.

A 4-year-old girl mistakenly took hundreds of packets of heroin to her day care centre and began passing them out to classmates, thinking the drug was candy, Delaware State Police said Tuesday.

Warships from the rival Koreas exchanged warning shots Tuesday after a North Korean ship briefly violated the disputed western sea boundary, a South Korean defence official said.

Two spacewalking astronauts performed routine maintenance outside the International Space Station for the first time since an Italian astronaut nearly drowned because of a flooded helmet in July 2013.

The day has come when fewer than half the NHL's 30 teams will start a season without a heavyweight fighter, or one-dimensional forward. It seems the term "team toughness" is being redefined.

Opposition MPs say the lack of marine charts, navigation aids and ice-breaking services for the environmentally sensitive Arctic, revealed Tuesday in an audit by Environment Commissioner Julie Gelfand, are disappointing and a significant worry for those w

First reported instance of a female Kurdish fighter carrying out a suicide bombing against Isil as jihadists draw within a mile of town on Turkish border

Dozens of Kurds took to social media today to vent their outrage at the perceived gaffe after the Swedish fashion retailer released its Autumn/Winter collection earlier this month.

A major train derailment has occurred near Wadena, Sask.

A bear cub has been found dead under a bush inside New York City's Central Park, and authorities suspect animal cruelty played a role.

Just two points separate the frontrunners in new survey.

Watch the full moon darken and grow reddish tonight during a total lunar eclipse that may help a fall meteor shower shine.

A Canadian Sea King helicopter made an emergency landing in a field in Eastern Passage before being towed down a street in the Nova Scotia community.

A move by Clorox to disclose the ingredients in the fragrances used in its cleaning products is being lauded by activists who say it exposes a loophole in Canada's labelling rules and will put pressure on other corporations to follow suit.

A ban on alcohol sales that has been in place since Alberta first became a province will remain in effect in the southern Alberta town of Cardston.

Farmers and politicians say the federal and provincial governments have done too little to manage the rapidly expanding elk population at CFB Suffield

The paper by Professor Wayne Hall, a drugs advisor to the World Health Organisation, builds a compelling case against those who deny the devastation cannabis wreaks on the brain.

Born with a deformed skull, the Maltese dog required brain surgery after she lost her ability to balance and kept tipping over. What makes this unique is, she had to fly from Arizona to B.C. to get the procedure done because no one was qualified to do it

October brings slasher flicks and Halloween, and this year Canadians can catch a glimpse of another blood-soaked sight: the moon.

Some patients given paralytic drugs say they came to, but medical staff had no idea they were conscious.

They spin music and they're rolling in the dough to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars a night --sometimes even more.

The famed Waldorf Astoria hotel, famously called "the greatest of them all," is now the most expensive of them all, after selling for $1.95 billion.

Researchers at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, North Carolina, want to help men born with abnormalities, or who've had surgery for cancer or suffered traumatic injury.

NASA's looking for innovative ways to get a manned crew safely to the Red Planet. Could deep sleep hold the key to success?

A New Brunswick Mountie who made national headlines for smoking medical marijuana while in uniform last year has been found dead.

Two reportedly killed in explosion at secretive Parchin site that shatters windows 12 kilometers away

A bar shooting in Harris County early Saturday was apparently like a scene straight out of a movie. When four men attempted to rob the establishment, a customer rose to the occasion and began shooting the would-be robbers.

Residents of St. John's lined the city's streets Sunday as a military parade recreated the march of the first Newfoundland soldiers who shipped off to Europe to fight in the First World War.

When Justin Trudeau leads the Liberal Party in opposing a Canadian military mission against ISIS, he will do so against the judgment of many of his party's grandees

GA young British-Iranian woman has gone on hunger strike to mark 100 days since she was jailed for trying to watch a volleyball match.

Lee Wollard fired a warning shot to protect his daughter in an altercation with her boyfriend; a judge was forced to sentence him to 20 years in a Florida state prison

Sunday Times cites manifesto written by member of ISIS war council, proposing to offer Russia control of Anbar gas fields in return for Moscow cutting ties with Tehran and handing over its nuclear knowhow.

As many as 100 British jihadists are believed to be stranded in Turkey because they are too scared to return to the UK after leaving Islamic State militants.

A 13-year-old boy died on Oct. 3 after a goat that had been bought to be sacrificed during Eid al-Adha, fell onto him from the sixth floor roof of a building in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

In its campaign across northern Syria and Iraq, the jihadist group Islamic State has been using ammunition from the United States and other countries that have been supporting the regional security forces fighting the group, according to new field data ga

Self-guided unmanned patrol boats that can leave warships they're protecting and swarm and attack potential threats on the water could join the Navy's fleet within a year, defense officials say, adding the new technology could one day help stop attacks li

When the Coast Guard first found the man floating east of Florida, he was disoriented and asking how to get to Bermuda. He refused to leave his bubble at that time

Security forces investigating the role of municipal police in clashes in this southern city a week ago found a mass grave on the edge of town, raising fears the pits might hold 43 students missing since the violence that also resulted in six shooting deat

The dispute between the city and ride-sharing company Uber escalated over the weekend, when two drivers were charged as part of an undercover investigation.

Greg Zubiak was looking around the field near Glaslyn where he plans to hunt moose, when he saw movement in the distance. "As I walked up, they all just kind of looked at me and I guess my moose hunt was over. I just said, 'OK, come on,' and as soon as I

Timmy the 'vampire cat' has finally found a home after facing a long wait at Blue Cross rehoming centre in Lewknor, Oxfordshire, because of his fangs.

In bizarre spat, Turkey's president denies telling US veep he'd been wrong to allow foreign fighters to cross into Syria

Yeonmi Park, a young woman who fled North Korea after seeing friends and family tortured and killed, tells her harrowing story

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian authorities have detained 155 Uighurs, more than half of them children, who were found crammed into two apartments in the capital Kuala Lumpur, immigration officials

Detectives sidestepped a judge's agreement to protect the source of Mail on Sunday stories exposing how Mr Huhne illegally conspired to have his speeding points put on his wife's licence.

A six-month-old baby girl has died after being attacked by a dog in a home in Daventry, Northamptonshire Police said. The child was attacked at 10.30 pm on Friday night.

42 people with mental illnesses were killed by lethal injection in the Netherlands last year, up from 14 in 2012, while the overall number of assisted deaths grew by more than 15 per cent.

The Pakistani Taliban declared allegiance to Islamic State on Saturday and ordered militants across the region to help the Middle Eastern jihadist group in its campaign to set up a global Islamic caliphate.

The Islamic State terrorist known as Jihadi John has been tracked by drones flying over the Syrian city of Raqqa. They are also believed to have identified hostages wearing orange jumpsuits.

Simon has strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane in the Pacific, but still poses no direct threat to land.

Canada is contributing to a new space telescope that one scientist says may help in the search for signs of extraterrestrial life.

Protesters calling for action on missing and murdered aboriginal women have closed stretches of two highways in Ontario.

Authorities have found a mass grave in the restive southern Mexican state of Guerrero at a time when police are scouring the area for nearly four dozen people missing after a rash of violence.

Many hockey fans know Mark Donnelly for his inspired renditions of O Canada at Vancouver Canucks home games. But the singer provided fans another unforgettable moment, when he tripped over a red carpet while on skates as he sung the national anthem at the

A raft of new research published over the summer is posing ever more serious questions about whether neonicotinoids, the most common insecticides in the world, are affecting birds and bees more widely than previously thought.

Jean-Claude Duvalier, the self-proclaimed 'president for life' of Haiti whose corrupt and brutal regime sparked a popular uprising that sent him into a 25-year exile, has died.

Experts say a mysterious ball of light over the Montreal last night was not a meteor, raising questions about what that ball of light could be.

A group of 22 people, including 9 children, is stranded on an island off Cape Dorset, Nunavut, because of bad weather, according to the Joint Task Force Atlantic based in Halifax.

People in St. John's will be marking the 100th anniversary of the day the first contingent of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment left the city to join the war effort in Europe.

A Nunavut man is in police custody Saturday after a shooting incident in the community of Igloolik in which an RCMP officer was shot.

'Wait For Me, Daddy,' a photo taken of a boy running after his father as he heads to battle, became an iconic symbol of Canada at war. Now, a series of sculptures depicting the scene in the image have been unveiled.

If Canadian polar bears had an actor's union, they might be a bit miffed that a bear from China snagged a starring role in an upcoming Hollywood flick.

A man who was himself mauled when he saved a woman attacked by a polar bear has received one of Manitoba's highest honours.