NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2017

A Virginia mother and her two young children are free after being held captive inside their home for two years by the woman's boyfriend.

Curiouser and curiouser: That seems to be the state of affairs on some Canadian campuses over issues of free speech.

About 20 per cent of sausages sampled from grocery stores across Canada contained meats that weren't on the label, according to a federally funded study.

Documents released in a lawsuit against the company raised new questions about its efforts to influence the news media and scientific research.

The Alberta Energy Regulator has charged Syncrude Canada in the deaths of 31 great blue herons at its Mildred Lake oilsands mine two years ago.

The season is far from over: the B.C. Wildfire Service says August is usually a busy month for fires. Over 4,910 square kilometres of land has burned since spring

Former members of the Wildrose Party disgruntled by the merger with the Progressive Conservatives have taken the first step in resurrecting the now-defunct party.

Marcus Hutchins, the 23-year-old security professional who accidentally stopped the spread of the virulent WCry ransomware worm in May, was detained by law-enforcement authorities after attending the Defcon security convention last weekend, according to a

Father Yahya Almatari said he felt satisfied after he watched Muhammad al Maghrabi, the man who raped and murdered his three-year-old daughter, being executed by machine gun in Yemen.

Every summer for the last three decades, researchers have cruised the northern Gulf of Mexico during July to study the extent of hypoxia, or low oxygen levels. This summer they found the largest area ever on record: 22,720 square kilometers. This is about

With a sixth power meter fire on a Regina home in the past two weeks, SaskPower is focusing all its efforts on continuing home inspections. The extreme dry conditions are causing the clay-soil in Regina to shift, which has been pulling underground cables

Canadian Olympic boxing medalist Willie deWit couldn't resist a gentle jab at Mohammed Ali in a Calgary courtroom Wednesday. OK, the jab was a verbal one, deWit is now a superior court judge and Ali is a criminal defence lawyer who shares a name (though d

In 2015, South Asia experienced a deadly heat wave that killed roughly 3,500 people in Pakistan and India in a matter of months. New research suggests the region could face much worse by the end of the century.

Knute probably didn't realize chewing on his cage (and everything else) could damage his teeth, but when he broke one of his incisors, a team of experts performed a massive dental surgery on the bear.

The two largest wildfires raging in B.C.'s Interior forced two new evacuation orders on Wednesday afternoon.

Police in southwestern Switzerland say they have found in an Alpine glacier the remains of a German hiker who went missing almost exactly three decades ago.

A 14-year-old terrier infested with more than 100,000 fleas will live another day thanks to an emergency blood transfusion at a B.C. veterinarian hospital.

Chinese President Xi Jinping issued a tough line on national sovereignty Tuesday amid multiple territorial disputes with his country's neighbours.

A medical examination showed a 96-year-old German known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" was fit to start serving his prison sentence, German prosecutors said on Wednesday, but his lawyer said a court should decide whether he's well enough.

Prince Philip, the 96-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth, bows out of public life today with a final solo appearance at an official event, ending a royal career marked by occasional gaffes that landed him in hot water.

Burrowed beneath the rocks in the shallow waters of the North Saskatchewan River scurries a lobster-like creature. It looks like it belongs in the open sea, but it's a crayfish. Also known as "mudbugs," the crustaceans are found throughout river networks

Department of National Defence scientists arrived this week on Devon Island, Nunavut, to work on a new system to monitor Arctic waters. System could consist of unmanned mobile sensors, underwater microphones and artificial intelligence

Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun voted in favour of removing land from the Agricultural Land Reserve for industrial development because the city is running out of industrial land.

Officials are taking lessons from the deadly heat wave of 2009, warning the public in advance of high temperatures and preparing cooling centres for those most vulnerable.

Smoke from more than 130 wildfires burning across the province has pushed smoke to the coast, and it's likely to get worse before it gets better.

A temporary welcome centre has been opened at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal due to a surge of asylum seekers coming from the United States to Quebec.

The personal information of Canadians will be on the negotiating table along with auto parts and labour standards when North American free trade talks begin this month.

Canadian cable companies have ratcheted up their war on piracy by launching a new legal battle. The effort has already seen Bell, Rogers and Quebecor's Videotron search a Montreal software developer's home and interrogate him for more than nine hours.

Couples without kids are outpacing their procreating counterparts, same-sex relationships are blossoming, multiple generations are living under the same roof and more people than ever are living alone, Statistics Canada revealed Wednesday as the 2016 cens

A new study suggests India will see an increase in farmer suicides as climate change brings hotter temperatures that damage crops and exacerbate drought.

Typhoon Noru is marching toward a potentially destructive strike in the Ryukyu Islands and southwestern Japan this weekend, concluding a long, strange journey that the tropical cyclone has already made through the western Pacific Ocean.

The threat posed to the native Western Painted Turtle is growing because of competition for food and basking spots from released pet turtles which thrive and reproduce here.

Environment Canada says temperatures will soar into the high 30s Monday to Thursday for the Fraser Valley, Howe Sound, Whistler and inland Vancouver Island.

The humpback, named KC, was well known to marine researchers because of a previous injury from a boat strike.

It wasn't until Mick Scanlan turned his wooden shelf upside down that he saw the face of Jesus praying in the wood grain. He said he's not the only one who has seen the face.

The U.S. has flown two B-1 bombers over the Korean Peninsula in a show of force against North Korea following the country's latest intercontinental ballistic missile test. Meanwhile, the North promises an 'act of justice' if the U.S. imposes more sanction

An air quality advisory is in effect in Metro Vancouver because of smoke and "fine particulate matter" blown in from forest fires hundreds of kilometres away.

When a baseball player walks up the the plate to bat their brainwaves can predict performance, according to a new University of Victoria study.

Is the storied bromance between Andre De Grasse and Usain Bolt over? Judging by the Jamaican sprint superstar's comments ahead of this week's track and field world championships, it would seem so.

A directive issued by the Force's chief of defence, Gen. Jonathan Vance, states that officers are no longer required to ask for permission to march in the LGBT Pride parade in uniform.

Blue Jays fans have something to celebrate. Canada Post released this years Birds of Canada stamp series featuring P.E.I.'s provincial bird: the blue jay.

Ten right whales have now been found along the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. DFO says the situation is "unprecedented and extremely concerning."

The pair's once-rosy relationship has been threatened by the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Ontario's animal welfare organization says a hoarding issue may have contributed to a situation at an abandoned rural property where local rescue groups say they've found dozens of animals, dead and alive.

Passengers on two Air Transat flights were stuck on planes at the Ottawa airport for hours on Monday after being diverted due to stormy weather, and at least two of them called 911.

A decade ago, OxyContin's drugmaker Purdue Pharma settled civil and criminal suits in the U.S. for more than $600 million US. After a recently proposed $20 million settlement in Canada, doctors and lawyers here are calling for criminal prosecution.

Alberta beef producers aren't happy about Japan's decision to impose a temporary 50 per cent tariff, up from 38.5 per cent, on imports of frozen beef from Canada and other countries, including the United States.