NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2017

Megan Moores had only ever seen a citizen's arrest on television or in the movies, that is until she confronted what she believed to be an impaired driver.

As the province extends a state of emergency regarding the wildfire crisis, up to 40 per cent of firefighting crews could soon be gone.

Jerry Lewis, the rubber-faced comedian and director whose fundraising telethons became as famous as his hit movies, has died. He was 91.

The Royal Canadian Regiment celebrates a century old battle where one of Canada's few known Muslim soldiers was killed in the First World War.

The Canadian military is grappling with how best to prevent its satellites from being shot down. Documents obtained by CBC News under access to information laws show defence officials are uncertain what their limits are when it comes to the use of force i

A former Toronto resident is among 173 ISIS fighters Interpol has named as potential suicide bombers, based on data uncovered by U.S. intelligence.

Billionaire tech mogul Paul G. Allen announced Friday that a research vessel belonging to his organization has located wreckage from the USS Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea.

Dick Gregory, who broke racial barriers in the 1960s and used his humour to spread messages of social justice and nutritional health, has died. He was 84.

The B.C. government has extended a state of emergency for a third time since it was originally declared on July 1. There have been 1,031 fires in the province since April 1, burning over 900,000 hectares of land, and making 2017 the worst wildfire season

To mark the 75th year since the disastrous raid on Dieppe, Paul Delorme, 97, and three other former soldiers have returned to the scene of their capture.

Two police officers have died after a shooting in Kissimmee, Florida.

Thousands of anti-fascist protesters marched through Boston on Saturday afternoon. The estimated 15,000 counter-protesters flocked to Boston Common against a free speech rally.

For the 584 mainly French-Canadian soldiers of the Fusiliers Mont-Royal, Dieppe was something of a homecoming given the French port's historical ties to Quebec. The events of Aug. 19, 1942, however, would forever alter the town's significance to Canadian

You wouldn't think a turtle could climb over a six-inch barricade and vertical rocks, but its owner says Fluffy and its "partner in crime" Flippy are "escape artists."

A Sundre father and son staged a loon intervention last Saturday in the Nordegg area after the bird came looking for some help.

Wind and solar energy are obviously essential in reducing carbon emissions, but they also have a remarkable side effect: saving lives. As they edge out fossil fuels, renewables are reducing not just carbon emissions, but also other air pollutants. And the

Martial arts training might not be the first thing a daycare worker would list on a resume, but six youngsters in Prince George, B.C., are safe because daycare owner Chelsi Sabbe used her skills when a man an allegedly tried to grab two children in her ca

Abraham Lincoln has joined George Washington on the list of those targeted by Chicagoans in a national debate over Civil War-era monuments.

Imran Awan, a former IT aide for Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was indicted Thursday on four counts including bank fraud and making false statements.

Several potential jurors were dismissed Monday in Brooklyn federal court at the 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli's trial because people couldn't help telling the judge how much they hated him.

The group of bikers had a strong message for city hall and Mounties: Protect our children.

Gregor Robertson said people have a right to demonstrate, but there's no place for hatred in the city.

Several people have been hurt after a truck in Barcelona ploughed into pedestrians.   

In the last two years, three Saudi princes living in Europe have disappeared. All were critical of the Saudi government.

While Peter Short was saying goodbye to his daughter Kira, a thief was stealing her paintings and other items.

The homeowner denies that the flag, that has been associated with neo-Nazi groups, has racist connotations.

The United Bid Committee has released a long-list of 46 potential host cities, including Toronto and New York.

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The NYT reports that a Ukraine factory it is the most likely source of the engines that in July powered the two ICBM tests, which were the first to suggest that North Korea has the range, if not necessarily the accuracy or warhead technology, to threaten

Another great white shark has been detected off Nova Scotia. It joins a 600-kilogram tagged shark named Hilton, who has spent more than a week along Nova Scotia's south shore, and most recently pinged Monday night off Peggys Cove outside Halifax.

A high number of accidental deaths this year among the endangered North Atlantic right whale threaten the survival of the species, according to conservation groups and marine scientists.

Protesters in North Carolina topple a nearly century-old statue of a Confederate soldier at a rally against racism. Seconds after the monument fell, protesters began kicking the crumpled bronze monument.

The Lancaster Sound national marine conservation area will protect 110,000 square kilometres of the Arctic, which is almost two per cent of Canada's oceans.

Fifty years ago, a mentally ill young man slipped into a Saskatchewan farmhouse and shot nine members of the same family in what's now known as Canada's worst random mass murder. Victor Hoffman had been released from a psychiatric hospital just weeks earl

With its hulking size and all-white appearance, a rare moose put on quite the show for one lucky man in Sweden on Friday. This particular white moose is an eight-year-old male that has been seen in the area for some time.

British Columbia is poised to face its worst wildfire season as flames scorch thousands of hectares of land and costs rise to deal with the devastation. BC Wildfire Service spokesman Kevin Skrepnek says an estimated 8,450 square kilometres of forest, brus

When Mary Grams lost her diamond engagement ring in the garden in 2004, she thought it was gone for good. This week it was found on a carrot, plucked from the soil on the family farm.

A petition launched this week by a Saskatoon man is calling for the removal of the head of Canada's Indigenous veterans because of what he called "digusting" social media posts.

The Hudson's Bay Company has confirmed it will remove a plaque commemorating Confederate States' president Jefferson Davis from its flagship downtown Montreal store after some residents complained.

Tristan Murrin and his mother returned to their bloodied home in Richmond on Thursday night. Nothing was stolen and the intruder was gone by the time they arrived.

If a new Senate Republican border security bill is passed as currently drafted, it would dramatically increase the amount of surveillance technologies used against immigrants and, in some cases, American citizens traveling to and from the United States.

Doug Schweitzer is calling on other candidates to condemn Rebel Media for its coverage of the deadly clash between anti-racism activists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Va., as the Rebel's founder disavows the "racism" of the alt-right.

Do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy at the border? The government has consistently argued no, but court cases across Canada dispute that.

Matthew Heimbach called Saturday's event 'an absolute stunning victory' because of the number of supporters who participated in his rally

CBC News has confirmed the identities of two Canadian citizens killed Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a popular restaurant in the capital of the West African country of Burkina Faso.

The B.C. government has announced plans to end the controversial grizzly bear trophy hunt, following up on a campaign promise made before the election.

A stunt woman has died following a motorcycle accident on the set of Deadpool 2 in downtown Vancouver. The accident occurred just after 8 a.m. on Monday.

Global warming is opening up the fabled Northwest Passage, a route through Arctic waters that's closed to ships for most of the year. "Things are changing in the Arctic, and that is changing things everywhere else," said David 'Duke' Snider, the seasoned

Salli Pateman wanted to pay homage to the history of the Chinatown restaurant she bought but when she couldn't track down the original neon sign, she decided to have one made.

A summer heat wave and extensive wildfires in the B.C. Interior have been abnormally hard on animals in the province, especially nestlings. Wildlife rescuers say they're seeing a high number of young animals dehydrated.

Dozens of mourners marched in the rain to pay their respects to two foul-tempered fixtures of a Halifax community -- a pair of geese who were run down at a crosswalk.

North Korean state media continues to celebrate the launch of two intercontinental ballistic missiles in July and the nation's status as a global rocket, although there are growing suggestions that ordinary people are less enthusiastic about the regime's

Ivanka Trump tweets about the violence in Charlottesville, Va. this morning, condemning racism, white supremacy and neo-Nazis:

A Canadian delegation will appear before a United Nations committee in Geneva starting Monday to defend its record on fighting racial discrimination. Figuring prominently on the agenda is Canada's treatment of Indigenous people.

A UCLA professor who recommended replacing dogs and cats with more climate-friendly pets in the name of global warming may have bitten off more than he can chew.

Laval police say officers were attacked by young concertgoers after intervening in a brawl at an outdoor concert Saturday night. About 1,000 people had gathered for the concert which was part of a new Moroccan festival

An advisory has been in effect since August 1 due to wildfires raging in B.C.'s Interior. A cold front is also on its way which should help tamp down particulates in the air.

Fire-fatigued crews in British Columbia are getting more help from the Canadian Armed Forces as 100 additional military members from the Edmonton garrison arrived in Williams Lake on Saturday morning.

When a bear surprised Liz Desrosiers on her deck, her hope was that it would just turn around, and walk back into the bush.

Tyler Applegate, a 27-year-old father of five in Saskatoon, was fatally shot after confronting a Terror Squad gang member who'd been caught urinating on his backyard fence, a witness tells CBC News

A Toronto-based Jewish organization is raising concerns about what it describes as the sale of Nazi memorabilia at an antiques market in Pickering, Ont.

An accused armed robber who allegedly stabbed three people on Sunday was ultimately stopped by a man with a gun without a single shot fired.

CPP performance is well ahead of what chief actuary of Canada says will be needed to pay benefits for decades.

The Canadian government is implementing a temporary mandatory slowdown for vessels of 20 metres or more in length to address the deaths of North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, CBC News has learned.

One of Canada's allies is balking at handing over top-secret, high-tech data for inclusion in the Liberal government's $60-billion frigate replacement program. The concern has been formally registered, according to documents obtained by CBC News.

People with no criminal records can still be tripped up by police releasing non-criminal data, says Alberta Civil Liberties research director Linda McKay-Panos.

He was a dark-skinned kid on his way to a Lawrence Heights mentoring program, and a Toronto police officer had just punched him to the ground and pulled a gun on him and his friends, warning, �Don�t move or I�ll f------ kill you.�

The standard of evidence required to convict in a criminal trial � proof beyond a reasonable doubt � is high for a good reason.

Video police tried to prevent bystander from recording shows Sgt. Eduardo Miranda appearing to repeatedly Taser a man during an arrest. Police review director relied on the footage as evidence.

Global Affairs Canada has confirmed at least one Canadian diplomat in Cuba has been treated in hospital after suffering headaches and hearing loss. The information comes a day after the U.S. government said some of its diplomats in Havana had been targete

By saying mobile is good enough, FCC could find that deployment problem is solved. Americans might not need a fast home Internet connection, the Federal Communications Commission suggests in a new document. Instead, mobile Internet via a smartphone might

Some parents-to-be from other countries are travelling to Canada to give birth, therefore guaranteeing citizenship for their children.

'Just received a summons. Eric Bolling is suing me for defamation - $50 million in damages. I stand by my reporting + will protect my source...

An Alberta man who butchered a father, his two-year-old daughter and a woman will be approaching his 100th birthday before he is eligible to apply for parole after being sentenced to life in prison.

The Trump administration has been asked to investigate a Bermuda entity allegedly funnelling 'dark money' to environmentalists in the U.S.

The report directly contradicts Trump administration claims about global warming and concludes that temperatures have risen rapidly since 1980.

A leisurely ride through Upper North River, N.S., quickly turned uncomfortable when a 136 kilogram bear wouldn't go away.

Officials in Thunder Bay, Ont., say a local resident lit his house on fire in an ill-advised effort to get rid of a wasp's nest.

One person remains in hospital after a whale-watching boat hit a humpback whale near Victoria, B.C., on Monday.

A Texas man was airlifted to hospital to get his jaw wired shut after he tried to shoot an armadillo and a bullet rebounded off the animal's hard shell, striking the man in the face.

U.S. President Donald Trump says North Korea "had best not make any more threats to the United States" or "they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen." In response, Pyongyang threatened "enveloping fire" around Guam.

Trinity Eco Tours captured video of about 20 orcas in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. The crew watched for two hours and saw an attack on a porpoise.

A newly-discovered hoard of secret Second World War aircraft technical drawings will be used by enthusiasts to rebuild and launch a Mosquito plane into the skies above Britain.

A fourth-grader's cover letter grabbed NASA's attention in the search for the next real-life guardian of the planet.

Mazda Motor Corp said it would become the world's first automaker to commercialize a much more efficient petrol engine using technology that deep-pocketed rivals have been trying to engineer for decades, a twist in an industry increasingly going electric.

Prison guards in Alberta are overdosing on fentanyl during searches and there is a real concern that the next exposure could be fatal. In the past three weeks, seven guards at two institutions have been exposed. Narcan, a medicine used to treat opioid ove

Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen to produce clean energy can be simplified with a single catalyst developed by scientists at Rice University and the University of Houston.

The FBI monitored social media on Election Day last year in an effort to track a suspected Russian disinformation campaign utilizing "fake news," CNN has learned.

Automated accounts are being programmed to spread fake news, according to the first systematic study of the way online misinformation spreads

A worker error caused the inky, foul-smelling discharge that blackened the water near the base of Niagara Falls last weekend, according to a statement released Friday night.

When the dam at the Mount Polley mine collapsed in August of 2014, it spilled 24 million cubic metres of toxic waste into Quesnel Lake, destroying important spawning beds and forcing an estimated 1.5 million spawning sockeye to swim through polluted water

A get-together in Sidney B.C. on Sunday is being billed as possibly the world's most unusual block party. The party on Summerset Place will celebrate the departure from the nest of the fledgling hawk and three eaglets in the unlikely blended family.

One month after out-of-control wildfires prompted B.C. to declare a provincial state of emergency, several blazes are still growing and many homes remain on evacuation order.

'I think generally people are getting the message,' says the BC Wildfire Service's Kevin Skrepnek. 'I think that speaks to the fact that people are taking the threat of human-caused fires seriously.'

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's visit to a park near Victoria didn't quite follow the script today as he accidentally fell into the water while trying to get into a kayak.

A new passenger ferry service is available starting Aug. 4 in New Westminster. The service is a pilot project to connect the Quayside and Queensborough neighbourhoods.

The family of an 8-year-old transgender student has filed a discrimination lawsuit against an Orange County private school.

Two Chinese men were caught making the banned sign outside the German parliament.

Princess Diana caught Prince Charles sitting on the toilet as he spoke intimately with Camilla Parker-Bowles, new tapes due to be aired tonight for the first time claim.

Surrey RCMP say Bhavkiran 'Kiran' Dhesi, 19, was a college student and recent kidney transplant recipient.

The U.N.'s migration agency has tallied an increase this year in deaths of people trying to enter the United States from Mexico even as illegal crossings appear to have dropped sharply. The International Organization of Migration counted 232 migrant death

A Canadian and American were being deported from Kenya after working with the country's main opposition party for Tuesday's presidential election.

Volunteers last night accused the National Trust of trampling on their rights by making them wear gay pride badges with 75 guides from at Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk refusing to work.

Roger Dingledine co-created Tor, the software that criminals use to anonymously access the internet.

The Russian lawyer whose June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and other top Trump campaign officials has become a prime focus of the Russian election collusion probe is denying the meeting involved Hillary Clinton or the U.S. campaign, adding the congr

A Clinton village councillor is warning people in B.C.'s Lower Mainland that smoke may just be the beginning of their troubles if a wildfire in the area gets much worse.

Environment Canada has issued a tornado warning for the Muskoka and Parry Sound areas on Friday afternoon.

An Edmonton police officer faces three counts of theft following an investigation by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team.

If Kim Jong-Un was to launch a strike at New York City, the intercontinental ballistic missile would pass directly over Ottawa

The Quebec government has asked Ottawa for help managing a surge of people who illegally crossed the U.S.-Canada border and are now seeking asylum in the province.