NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2015

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company has completed a successful spaceflight test in West Texas (shown). The New Shepard vehicle rose to a height of 58 miles, four miles short of space, before landing.

Jonas Hiller was pulled after allowing three goals in the first 22:13 as the Calgary Flames dropped the opening game of their second-round series against the Anaheim Ducks 6-1 on Thursday night.

Joel Ward wanted Alex Ovechkin to hear him over the din at Madison Square Garden. So, the depth forward screamed at his superstar teammate.

Conservation officers in Penticton B.C. have identified two suspects in a poaching investigation after a quick-thinking witness snapped photos of men loading a deer carcass into the back of a truck late at night.

The fall of Saigon in April 1975 would be the final chapter of the United States' involvement in Vietnam. And it was also a dangerous story to cover for the news teams of CBC and CTV.

A Mississauga, Ont., woman wants an apology after a wheelchair accessible taxi service refused to drive her because of her service dog.

Tiffany Eichorn and her husband had just returned from a trip to Montreal when she discovered a peacock in her backyard. It has been camping out there for six days and despite ads on kijiji she hasn't been able to find its owner.

Nunavut RCMP say the search is over for two Dutch skiers who fell through ice near Bathurst Island, about 200 kilometres north of Resolute, Nunavut. Both are presumed drowned.

The man who was mauled by a polar bear in Churchill, Man. after he saved a woman from being attacked is about to receive one of Canada's highest honours for bravery.

Larry Hartman hasn't been aboard HMCS Sackville since 1944. After 71 years, he decided it was time for a visit to the ship he fought on for two years during the Second World War.

It's not often you hear about women being criticized for wearing skirts that are too long. But that's exactly what happened to one French teen, who was barred from attending class because her ankle-length maxi-skirt was deemed a "provocation."

Another officer involved in the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski has been acquitted of perjury.

Many Canadian evacuees frustrated by what they claim was a lack of assistance from consular officials. But anger against Canada seemed exclusive to Canadians. Others saw heroes in the Maple Leaves. Canada let 33 Americans onto the evacuation flight Wednes

Gen. Philip Breedlove, commander of NATO forces in Europe, told the Senate Armed Services Committee, that the situation in Ukraine is volatile and fragile and urged Congress to bolster U.S. intelligence capabilities to better understand President Vladimir

Sexual misconduct is "endemic" in the Canadian military, former Supreme Court justice Marie Deschamps says in a searing report released today. CBCNews.ca is livestreaming a press conference as military leaders respond to the report, starting at 1 p.m. ET.

The prime minister's political tree is bearing fruit: The post-Harper generation of Conservative leaders is already here.

First we wiped out smallpox in North and South America. Then we rid the Americas of polio. Now, for the third time, the Americas are the first region in the world to eliminate yet another disease through vaccines: rubella. After 15 years of a widespread v

Camphor mothballs were mistakenly put into a candy mix in more than 1,100 hampers at the Share Family and Community Services Food Bank in Port Moody

Wascana Creek is alive with beavers these days and that means Regina drivers have to keep an eye out, too.

A researcher from Carleton University has shed light on a common fishing question: what happens when a pike swims off with your lure?

The Filipino star endured a tough childhood, living in such extreme poverty that he turned professional at the age of 14. His trainer Freddie Roach revealed the extent of his charge's troubles this week.

The 27-year-old turned himself into police custody resulting in the UFC taking away his title and pulling him from its next pay-per-view event against Anthony Johnson in Las Vegas on May 23.

Contracting out winter road maintenance has led to longer highway-clearing times and less anti-icing liquid, sand and salt on roads, says Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk in a damning report.

A 19-year-old student from the University of Waterloo has won a contest to design the logo for the 150th anniversary of Confederation.

The historic drought has forced the city of Santa Barbara to reactivate a desalination plant that has been mothballed since the late-1990s. About a dozen new desalination plants, expensive options, are also being proposed across the state.

Edmonton paramedic Greg Turner had high expectations on himself. A couple of beers in the evening and an early bedtime helped him with the hard calls, he said. As did the sleeping pills prescribed by a family doctor. Until they didn't. His wife tells the

Banking fees are going up at all of Canada's five big banks, but some customers of RBC in particular are outraged about the changes. They're accusing Canada's biggest bank of targeting children and those who can least afford it.​

Loretta Saunders's sister lunged and swore at the pair who admitted to murdering the Saint Mary's University student as emotions ran high during the family's reading of victim impact statements during a sentencing hearing in Halifax's Supreme Court of Nov

Ian McIlwaine of Squamish, B.C., said his family is "shaken and very upset" after RCMP went to the family's home because his four-year-old son, Tyler, was playing in the yard naked.

Rueben Buhler, a 54-year-old B.C. man, has been charged following a triple homicide at a home in the remote community of Burns Lake, RCMP say.

The drought in California is dividing the state. Urban residents wonder why they have to cut back when 80 per cent of piped water is used by farmers who are insisting they have no more water to give.

A suspect in the deaths of two homeless men over the weekend in Winnipeg has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

Canada's auditor general is taking issue with the quality of health care in remote First Nations communities, lacklustre efforts to rehabilitate prisoners and the dearth of oversight governing boutique tax credits -- the Conservative government's election

Canadians have been given five extra days to file their 2014 income tax returns, thanks to a "human error" at the Canada Revenue Agency. You're welcome.

Canada is sending more relief supplies to earthquake-struck Nepal, promising to match donations to a fund specifically set up to help -- and defending itself from claims that affected Canadians aren't getting the assistance they need. The federal governme

This brain teaser courtesy of Health Canada's access to information department. See if you can figure out what word or phrase has been blacked out from an otherwise innocuous document about serving-size labels.

A Toronto man who was in central Newfoundland for business last week got into trouble when the smartphone application he was using led him down a backcountry road.

Car manufacturer creates crystal clear carbon-neutral fuel using just water and air.

The US Energy Department prepares a wave of LNG gas permits in the latest move to redraw the world's oil and gas landscape

An experiment at Memorial University has found that learning and memory improve under ideal listening conditions.

MOSCOW (AP) -- A court in southern Russia has sentenced three young women to brief jail terms for making a video showing them twerking next to a World War II memorial.

Hundreds of survivalists and so-called 'Preppers', of all ages and levels of 'experience', descended on the Salt Lake City, Utah, suburb of Sandy on Friday for the nation's first ever PrepperCon.

Dr Jim Penman believes Britons no longer have the genetic temperament that sparked the Industrial Revolution

A strong earthquake aftershock struck India and Nepal today, shaking buildings in New Delhi and triggering more avalanches in the Himalayas, a day after a powerful quake killed more than 2,500 people.

A powerful earthquake struck Nepal Saturday, killing more than 1,100 people across a swath of four countries as violently shaking earth collapsed houses, levelled centuries-old temples and triggered avalanches on Mount Everest.

Some people on living on Fogo Island, off Newfoundland's northeast coast, may be looking over their shoulders today after a polar bear was spotted lumbering around the community.

Two women who live in the same Clayton Park neighbourhood discovered an unexpected connection after one of them spotted the other's wedding and engagement rings in a snowbank.

Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose is calling on Vancouver's mayor to close down the city's retail marijuana stores.

Calgary Flames executives Ken King and Brian Burke are asking hockey fans along the Red Mile to stop behaving in an illegal, offensive manner after reports of sexual harassment, violent language and intimidation of women during playoff games.

Justin and Erica Sonnenburg believe that the root of many Western diseases can be traced to our languishing guts.

Several Native American actors walk off the set of an Adam Sandler comedy, claiming the film is "totally disrespectful" of Apache culture.

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake has struck British Columbia's north coast. The quake, 167 km southeast of the Village of Queen Charlotte, was felt from Haida Gwaii and along the north coast.

While the majority of Canadians see climate change as a serious threat to the planet, Canada has no climate legislation and, according to Environment Canada, growing emissions from the Alberta oilsands will prevent the country from meeting its emissi...

Omar Khadr, the Canadian transferred to an Alberta facility after serving time in Guantanamo Bay for war crimes, has been granted bail, but won't be released until a judge sets conditions on May 5.

A relative of a woman and her three kids killed in Tisdale, Sask., says the suspected killer took photos of the bodies and sent them to the children's biological father.

This week citizen soldiers honoured Calgarians who died in Flanders Fields.

For the third consecutive year, CBC Edmonton has won a prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting.

The Edmonton Oilers are adding former Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli to their front office, according to multiple reports.

The pilot of a an ultralight aircraft that crash landed on Highway 91 during rush hour traffic was warned that his aircraft was unsafe to fly.

A Montreal woman has been found guilty of criminal harassment after snapping a photo of graffiti depicting a senior Montreal police officer with a bullet in his head and then posting it on Instagram.

World leaders gather to mark the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign, one of the bloodiest of World War One, in which 141,000 soldiers died.

Delays were caused on a busy stretch of the M74 motorway after reports of a dog "taking control of a tractor". The incident - highlighted on Twitter by Traffic Scotland - took place at J13 at Abington, South Lanarkshire.

Daniel Sedin scored early in the third period and the Vancouver Canucks survived a strong rallying attempt by the Calgary Flames to come away with a crucial 2-1 win and avoid elimination on home ice Thursday night.

Although dormant, four west coast volcanoes have the potential for explosive activity.

President Barack Obama revealed Thursday that U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan inadvertently killed an American and an Italian, two hostages held by al Qaeda, as well as two other Americans who had leadership roles with the terror network.

Rocky, a dog from Alberta who had been missing since October 2014, has been found about 1,350 kilometres away in Manitoba.

A public transit bus filled with commuters caught fire on the eastbound Ville Marie expressway, a main highway that leads into Montreal's city centre, shortly before 3 p.m. today.

Jane Adey travelled to Spain recently. After seeing a bullfight, she wonders if the European Union's ban on seal products might be hypocritical.

Kye Courchesne used to like spelling his name with the letters in a bowl of Alpha-Getti, but last November, the eight-year-old found something on his spoon that might have been a little harder to spell.

University of Utah researchers offer a complete diagram of the plumbing of the Yellowstone volcanic system for the first time.

Honda, known for making motorcycles and cars, is showing its new sleek business jet in Japan for the first time, billing it as quiet, quick and green.

No one likes getting mail from the Canada Revenue Agency. But for Edmonton mom Rosemary Ronald, this letter was meant to deliver good news. Or "proposed" good news. But what prompted it? The neutral government agency's mandate or Conservative party strate

Truthiness, as coined by U.S. comedian Stephen Colbert, is something expressed as a truth because it is a feeling from the heart without evidence or logic. Don Pittis sees elements of this in the release of the federal government's latest budget.

Election Commissioner declares east mayoral election result 'void' after Britain's first elected Muslim mayor found guilty of corrupt and illegal practices over 2014 vote

A British interview with Robert Downey Jr. turned bad when U.K. journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked the Avengers actor a question he didn't like.

Ministers from the eight Arctic nations and representatives from northern indigenous groups are arriving in Iqaluit today for the Arctic Council ministerial meeting that starts Friday.

Critics warned that China was becoming the "Wild West" of genetic research

Ahmed Mohamed paid Ontario-based AutoMoves $1,250 to ship his Mazda 6 from Ottawa to Edmonton, but the move wound up costing him over $3,500 because of a money dispute between the company and its subcontractor.

Longtime Top Gear host James May says he won't return to BBC's popular motorcar program without Jeremy Clarkson, who was dismissed after a fracas with a producer.

A civilian volunteer who was accompanying a Canadian Ranger search party in northern Ontario is presumed dead after disappearing in blizzard conditions, the Ontario Ranger group says.

Former CIA director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an extramarital affair with his biographer, was expected to be sentenced Thursday in U.S. federal court in Charlotte, N.C., for giving her classified material while she was working on the b

Canadian credit card companies' aggressive debt collection tactics are coming under fire, after two debtors were sued by financial institutions in the B.C. Supreme Court.

Doctors are handing out drug company "payment assistance" cards along with some prescriptions so patients can get brand-name drugs supposedly at generic prices. But some patients are paying extra costs out of their own pocket.

Researchers taking part in a 57-year long study on Isle Royale, Michigan have found wolf numbers at an unprecedented low. There are now only 3 wolves left. At the same time, the moose herd on the Lake Superior island is now over 1200 animals, and growing

The model for Norman Rockwell's 1943 Rosie the Riveter painting that symbolized the millions of American women who went to work on the homefront during Second World War has died. Mary Doyle Keefe was 92.

Some Alberta paramedics are having a difficult time renewing their licences, after disclosing they sought professional help for work-related mental health issues such as anxiety, acute stress or post-traumatic stress disorder.

Angele Bisaillon thought her computer was hit with an annoying virus when a pop-up dialogue box appeared on the Montreal resident's screen telling her to cough up cash if she ever wanted to see her photos again.

Wellness advocate Belle Gibson, who translated her high-profile as a cancer survivor into publishing success, admits her cancer diagnosis was not real.

Critics say the U.S. Postal Service, which photographs every piece of mail, doesn't do enough to protect the privacy of Americans.

A Waterloo, Ont., company's long-range underwater laser scanner is giving Parks Canada a high-tech hand in its efforts to unlock the mysteries hidden within the wreck of the recently discovered HMS Erebus.

Mike Hoffman scored in the third period and Craig Anderson made 28 saves for the shutout as the Ottawa Senators downed the Montreal Canadiens 1-0 on Wednesday night to stay alive in their first-round NHL playoff series.

The Anaheim Ducks eliminated the Winnipeg Jets from the Stanley Cup playoffs following a 5-2 win Wednesday night.

A family dog may have helped save the life of a 12-year-old girl who has Type 1 diabetes after it woke up her mother in the middle of the night when her daughter's blood-glucose level had dropped dangerously low.

The event follows 22 shootings in Surrey and neighbouring Delta in the last six weeks.

Blake Leggette and Victoria Henneberry plead guilty to murdering Loretta Saunders. Leggette pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and Henneberry pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

Canada's electronic spy agency fretted over how its collection of cellphone metadata might be perceived even before CBC published a story on the agency using Wi-Fi info to track airport passengers, documents obtained by CBC reveal.

An Islamic extremist with an arsenal of loaded guns was only prevented from opening fire on churchgoers because he accidentally shot himself in the leg, French officials said Wednesday.

Finance Minister Joe Oliver's first budget includes tax cuts for small business, future cash for public transit and near-doubled TFSA contribution room

Would you like some microchips with that burger? McDonald's Europe strikes another blow against human interaction by installing 7,000 touch-screen computers to take your order and money.

KAMLOOPS - A Muslim man has filed a human rights complaint alleging the staff at the Kamloops jail refused to allow him to practise his religion while he was behind bars.

Affording Hercules and Leo the status of legal 'persons' means that the Long Island university where they are being held must now prove the legality of their imprisonment.

An Australian man learned a horrifying lesson about how wolf spiders procreate earlier this month after attempting to kill one with a broom.

Many human pedestrians could learn a thing or two about road safety from chimpanzees in Uganda.

Nine people were charged in Kentucky on Tuesday with stealing more than $100,000 US worth of bourbon whiskey, including the prized Pappy Van Winkle brand.

A noisy kennel can be a stressful place for a dog, but the P.E.I. Humane Society in Charlottetown has found reading to the animals can calm them down.

Progressive Conservative Leader Jim Prentice has backtracked on his government's reduction of the charitable donation tax credit in the budget.

The linkage between political funding and the major copyright lobby groups is not a new issue as for years there have been stories about how groups like the MPAA and RIAA fund politicians that advance their interests. Sites like OpenSecrets disclose the s

Spokesperson Harf tries to wriggle out of addressing immediate cash bonus to Iran; 'largest cash infusion to terror sponsor in history.'