NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 12-2015

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According to Environment Canada's senior climatologist, November was the eighth warmest on record in the N.W.T. And in the last week, 'temperatures have clearly been about a dozen or more degrees warmer than normal,' says David Phillips.

Above-seasonal highs in Winnipeg are suspected of causing people to forget to donate to charity for the holiday season because "it doesn't feel like Christmas," and they are responsible for keeping winter sports on the sideline. Does this mean Winterpeg i

This time of year, every property deserves the chance to be adorned with festive decorations. Even septic fields.

An overnight snowstorm closed some schools in eastern New Brunswick, forced bus delays in other parts of the province and left thousands without power on Friday.

Mounties from across Atlantic Canada have started a campaign to stop impaired driving by flooding their social media channels with the ridiculous excuses they've heard from drunk drivers.

Toronto police say they are still looking for the driver of a car who crashed and fled a vehicle containing several weapons, including a machine-gun with a silencer.

More wind and rainfall warnings have been issued for Metro Vancouver and the South Coast of B.C. as a series of fall storms bear down on the region.

The downturn in the energy industry has been underway for more than a year, but so far Alberta's economy has proven resilient. Unemployment remains below the national average, and despite tens of thousands of layoffs in the oil and gas sector there are st

The House will need to approve the amended legislation before it can be sent to the White House.

The CRTC has issued its first warrant under the federal government's anti-spam legislation to take down a Toronto-based malware server in an attempt to disrupt an international network of infected computers.

Mayor of Calais Natacha Bouchart made the decision to turn migrants from the jungle camp away from the Iceo leisure centre, saying she had been inundated with complaints.

A Newfoundland teen is winning a lot of support online for taking on a group of anonymous bullies who ranked her in an 'ugliest girl in high school' poll. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary is investigating the incident.

A former Bridgeport police officer who claimed someone left a racist memo on police letterhead in his mailbox at headquarters in February admitted to writing the letter himself and has been charged with filing a...

Scientists have unearthed the largest dinosaur fossil site ever found in Scotland. The collection of hundreds of dinosaur footprints and handprints is helping scientists learn about the long-necked, massive sauropods.

Maryam Namazie, who fled Iran's repressive regime and now campaigns against Islamic extremism, was speaking at the Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society of Goldsmiths in London.

A B.C. fishing guide is on the hook for $8,000 after his client tried to pluck a deer out of the ocean and into his boat with a gaff hook.

The federal government has declared dozens of streams and rivers in a scenic section of southwestern Alberta as critical habitat for an endangered trout species

Nearly a century after it happened, new perspectives on the Halifax explosion are coming to light through a collection of photos and hand-written letters obtained by the Nova Scotia Archives.

Of the $1.45B the province has given since 2004, 80 per cent of it has gone to companies who were invited to apply and never publicly posted

Danish exit polls suggest a No vote in a referendum on EU rules strengthening cross-border policing - three weeks after the deadly Paris attacks.

The Trudeau government's plan to boost taxes on the country's top income earners and lower taxes for the middle class could end up costing federal and provincial treasuries billions in lost tax revenue, according to the C.D. Howe Institute.

The finance minister is highlighting three economic priorities for the new government -- but the Liberal campaign vow to cap annual deficits at $10 billion is apparently no longer among them.

Akinwumi Adesina, head of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has a bold vision for electrifying a continent where two-thirds of people lack access to power, and getting there by skipping carbon-intensive growth in favour of renewable energy. At U.N.

TORONTO -- Auditor general Bonnie Lysyk says electricity customers in Ontario have paid billions of dollars for the Liberal government's decisions to ignore its own planning process for new power gene

Explosion killed 11 workers, spewed 134 million gallons of oil, and fouled the coastline.

RAF Tornado jets carry out their first air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria, the MoD confirms, after MPs voted in favour.

Shooting in San Bernardino, California, up to 20 victims reported, according to Fire Department

A species of dolphin that's never been seen alive in B.C. before has been spotted flourishing off the coast of Vancouver Island. Two pods of short-beaked common dolphins were seen just outside the Juan de Fuca strait in September. Previously, three

Orangeburg County Sheriff's Department investigators have determined that claims of a hate crime committed against a Cordova family "had been fabricated."

China is building 368 plants and planning a further 803, according to the study by four climate change research bodies, including Ecofys and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Police officials say the video doesn't show the whole story. But one bystander says chaotic footage he posted online shows what happened after an unprovoked attack by a Toronto police officer against a young black man.

Microsoft's recently released Windows 10 update failed to remove the spying capabilities that privacy advocates thought were disabled.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says decision to invite Montenegro was not directed at Russia

Anze Kopitar scored on a pass from Jeff Carter 2:02 into overtime, and the Los Angeles Kings rallied for a 2-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night.

As British MPs prepare to vote on bombing Syria, fresh evidence is emerging of chaos in Libya where Isil is establishing a new stronghold for recruits unable to reach the Middle East

U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday that parts of the global warming deal being negotiated in Paris should be legally binding on the countries that sign on, setting up a potential fight with Republicans at home.

The downtown core of Yellowknife has become home to hundreds of roosting ravens seemingly overnight, leaving many locals wondering what caused the birds' sudden urban migration.

An independent analysis of the largest military procurement in Canadian history has found the price of 15 new warships for the navy has more than doubled, from $14 billion initially set aside for construction to more than $30 billion.

In an age when quality of life includes being connected to the Internet, residents of a British Columbia town say they've gone back 20 years after service was cut off indefinitely.

Fishing boats carrying decomposed corpses have washed ashore in Japan in recent weeks, leading to speculation they are rickety North Korean vessels that have strayed dangerously far from port under the impoverished nation's push to boost its catch.

Japan's whaling fleet set out for the Antarctic on Tuesday to resume a decades-old whale hunt, defying global outrage, after a year's hiatus due to an international court ruling.

Small groups of Syrian refugees began arriving in Canada from Lebanon this week as the government prepares to process greater volumes of asylum seekers.

A total of 1,275 angels have broken a Guinness world record in Winnipeg. Germany held the previous record for the most people dressed as angels at 1,039.

It was 60 years ago today that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala. Parks was fined $14 US for refusing the bus driver's order to move to the back of the bus.

It looks like David Price won't be back with the Toronto Blue Jays next season. The Boston Globe is reporting that Price has agreed to a seven-year deal with the Red Sox worth a whopping $217 million US.

A Scottish mountain climber succeeded in fighting off a grizzly high up in the Rockies near Banff, Alta., after it sunk its teeth into his leg on the weekend, according to social media and other reports.

Gatineau Police are applauding a Gatineau girl, whose quick thinking may have saved her two-year-old sister from being abducted.

Some groups sponsoring Syrian refugee families say discrimination by landlords is making it harder for them to find homes for the new Canadians.

A Winnipeg war bride and her husband are finally being recognized for their service to Canada and Britain during the Second World War.

An armed man wanted in connection with three homicides at a rural home near Edson, Alta., was shot by police Tuesday when officers tried to arrest him.

An independent analysis of the largest military procurement in Canadian history has found the price of 15 new warships for the navy has more than doubled, from $14 billion initially set aside for construction to more than $30 billion.

Premier Rachel Notley said controversy over the NDP's farm safety bill has been caused by a communications problem, not a problem with Bill 6 itself.

Canadian taxpayers are paying the wages of two nannies hired to care for the children of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, after he said repeatedly during the election campaign that wealthy families like his should be paying for childcare themselves.

Animosity over Haiti policy, Omar Khadr startled U.S. officials

Canada's budget watchdog says the federal government's medium-term deficits will likely be billions of dollars higher than what was predicted in "optimistic" Liberal forecasts.

A U.S. official expressed amazement at how deeply detested Canada's Conservative government was by some employees of the Foreign Affairs Department. That impression was described in a note sent three years ago to Hillary Clinton, who was then the secre

Photographer Peter Cox has captured stunning drone footage of melting icebergs and ice sheets over the past year and a half to show the fast-moving effects of climate change.

A homeowner in Huron, Calif., was just settling in for a nice relaxing afternoon in front of a fire over the weekend when he heard someone yelling from inside the chimney leading from his fireplace.

Jenny Fry had crippling headaches and bladder problems and battled tiredness

Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz join executive producer Kathy Reichs in following a similar lawsuit filed Wednesday from Barry Josephson, producer on the long-running procedural.

RCMP continue to look for a suspect after three people were found dead in a rural Alberta home. At a news conference Monday, Inspector Gibson Glavin stressed the deaths were not a murder-suicide.

A 21-year-old Chicago man was arrested Monday in connection with making threats to kill students and staff at the University of Chicago in retaliation for a fatal 2014 shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer.

A female genital mutilation (FGM) protection order has been issued to safeguard four young sisters after fears were raised one of them could be taken abroad to be mutilated.