NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2017

The U.S. government has provided some clarity: Canadian passport-holders have the right to travel to the United States, despite days of confusing, contradictory messages about Donald Trump's travel restrictions.

President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. The 49-year-old Gorsuch has served on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver since 2006, after being appointed by President George W. Bush. He once worked at the Suprem

As the nation endures more record-breaking temperatures, doctors fear many underestimate the danger.

Iran will stop using the US dollar as its currency of choice in its financial and foreign exchange...

The White House has said a five-year-old boy was detained for more than four hours and reportedly handcuffed at an airport because he posed a security risk. The boy, reportedly a US citizen with an Iranian mother, was one of more than 100 people detained

Canada has begun talks with the U.S. government about the sole-source purchase of 18 Super Hornet fighters, CBC News has learned. The maker of the advanced jets has been told the Canadian government would like to see the first aircraft by 2019.

Sick notes written by ISIS militants desperate to escape the front line have revealed jihadis are not turning up to fight because of headaches, sore feet and bad backs.

There is now reason for "cautious optimism" in Alberta's energy sector but the industry faces ever-growing challenges from competitors in the United States, says one of the architects of Alberta's royalty review.

Iran conducted its first ballistic missile test under Donald Trump's presidency, in yet another apparent violation of a United Nations resolution, U.S. officials told Fox News exclusively.

German prosecutors say they have ordered that autopsies be conducted on the bodies of six teenagers who were found dead at a garden house in Bavaria.

Starbucks says it will hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years, a response to President Donald Trump's indefinite suspension of Syrian refugees and temporary travel bans that apply to six other Muslim-majority nations.

Paleontologists in northeast B.C. have revealed a series of rare discoveries at a recently uncovered dinosaur track site, including a footprint not yet seen anywhere else in the world.

The agency confirms elevated levels of belladonna, aka deadly nightshade.

Finally, a good surprise from studying polarization on things like climate.

A freelance photographer in Edmonton is fielding death threats after a disagreement at the Women's March in front of Alberta's legislature building last Sunday.

For months now, there's been speculation that researchers might have finally created time crystals - strange crystals that have an atomic structure that repeats not just in space, but in time, putting them in perpetual motion without energy.

Starving rodents in north-eastern France are suffering from vitamin deficiencies that prompt them to eat their own young

In 2016, the solar workforce in the U.S. increased by 25% to 374,000 employees, compared to 187,117 electrical generation jobs in the coal, gas and oil industries.

Tiny pieces of plastic are making their way into a range of fish and shellfish, including samples from retail outlets, a new report compiling research from experts around the globe has found.

Most people want to get out of the grocery store checkout line as quickly as possible,. But for some, that need for speed can cause problems and even serious distress. Is it time for a special lane for folks who can't or simply don't want to move as quick

Most stories about human trafficking that make it into the headlines in Canada involve women from other countries being brought here and forced into sex work, but those who work with trafficking victims in this country say the majority are, in fact, Canad

A group of B.C. paramedics have launched a citizen's initiative campaign to have paramedics declared an essential service in the province.

The weapons were found among dozens of rockets hidden in a storage unit in Mosul with Iraqi troops claiming the haul presented a 'huge chemical threat'.

The crown has asked for jail sentences ranging from three to 18 years for three men convicted of stealing $18M worth of Quebec maple syrup.

Immigration advocates are urging Canada to open its doors to more asylum-seekers following sweeping action by U.S. President Donald Trump to restrict them.

The cat named Sinbad was found in terrible condition by utilities workers in a Chicago basement last year

Senior FSB officer and cybersecurity investigator was charged on suspicion of treason.

A Wisconsin family of six is being forced to move after their duplex neighbor put up a Nazi flag in a sign of protest against President Trump and a viral photo brought angry strangers to their door.

A SPECIAL centre built to help and empower women and their babies was 'destroyed by migrants' just weeks after it opened, it has emerged.

President Donald Trump said on Friday that Syrian Christians will be given priority when it comes to applying for refugee status in the United States.

B.C. Premier Christy Clark brushed off cash-for-access questions the morning after a $5,000 per plate fundraiser in Kelowna.

A case of apparent parking lot rage gone wrong has ended with a Vancouver Island man in hospital after accidentally stabbing himself in the leg while slashing a tire.

Hundreds of thousands of students, activists and congregants will take to the streets of the nation's capital Friday, as the March for Life, no longer mired in the shadow of a pro-choice president, renews its fight to eradicate the practice of abortion.

President Donald Trump on Friday pledged America's "lasting support" to the U.S.' historic "special relationship" with Britain after he emerged from his first meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May, leader of an ally who seeks to nudge the populi

In an effort akin to the mapping the human genome, the global scientific community has banded together to answer a long-standing question about biodiversity: Does it fart?

An Ottawa-based think tank is backtracking after telling potential backers they could have a private cocktail with the prime minister if they paid the top sponsorship amount for an event next month.

Complicated and often unpopular, carbon taxes are already ripe for misunderstanding, a vulnerability that's only compounded in a post-truth political world.

New Jersey teacher Linda Hardan has blamed her strict religious upbringing after she pleaded guilty tor performing sex acts om students aged 14 to 16 years-old and sending sexually explicit photos.

Edmonton Oilers coach Todd McLellan and his San Jose Sharks counterpart, Peter DeBoer, offered a window to how they feel about wins and losses in late January, both emphatically saying they�re big-picture guys. No parade route after a win in January, no

Theresa May warned Donald Trump not to trust Russian president Vladimir Putin and chose to evoke the memory of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher during the Cold War.

It's common sense not to feed wild bears and deer, but now provincial officials are urging Kimberley residents to quit feeding wild turkeys.

Embryos that are about 0.001% human could lead to human organs being grown in animals.

Mike Connors, who played a hard-hitting private eye on the long-running TV series "Mannix," has died. He was 91.

U.S. Border Patrol chief Mark Morgan is out, just a few months after the Obama White House put him in charge of the agency. The rank-and-file saw him as an outsider political appointee.

At least six members of the media have been charged with felony rioting after being arrested while covering President Trump's inauguration Friday in Washington, D.C.

With a stroke of his pen, the president just potentially invalidated a transcontinental data flow agreement between the US and EU which took years to negotiate....

A new study by the Fraser Institute says Alberta could have posted a small budget surplus this year if successive governments had kept program spending increases in line with population growth and inflation.

Neighbours in a rural community near Cold Lake, Alta., are tense after four moose were shot and killed on private property without permission.

Mayor Ted Clugston says he's become a spokesman for communities looking to make the same achievements, despite his initial doubts about the project.

The strange object, named 2016 WF9, was discovered last year. Self-proclaimed Russian astronomer Dr Dyomin Damir Zakharovich said it is heading straight towards our planet.

Donald Trump is preparing executive orders that would dramatically reduce US funding of the United Nations, as well as other international organisations that do not meet certain criteria. The executive order plans to repeal certain multilateral treaties t

Leon Draisaitl scored two goals and Cam Talbot made 26 saves in his 15th career shutout, leading the Edmonton Oilers to a 4-0 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night.

A relic from America's first space tragedy is finally going on display this week, 50 years after a fire on the launch pad killed three astronauts at the start of the Apollo moon program.

President Donald Trump moved aggressively to tighten the nation's immigration controls Wednesday, signing executive actions to jumpstart construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall and block federal grants from immigrant-protecting 'sanctuary cities.'

Iconic American actress Mary Tyler Moore, known for her seminal TV role as an independent career woman in her eponymous sitcom, has died at the age of 80.

The prophesied recession that would ensue if former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost the presidency is no where in sight.

Massive collections of fake accounts are lying dormant on Twitter, suggests research.

Ex-Liberal organizer Jacques Corriveau, described years ago as the "central figure" in the federal sponsorship scandal, has been sentenced to four years in prison.

President Donald Trump says he will seek a "major investigation" on voter fraud in the November election, despite an overwhelming consensus among state officials, election experts and politicians that voter fraud is rare in the United States.

In what's believed to be a world first, Canadian doctors say they were able to save a young mother's life with a radical procedure: They removed her lungs.

US President Donald Trump is expected to sign several executive orders restricting immigration from Syria and six other mostly Muslim countries and launching the process of building a border wall.

President Donald Trump intends to take action today to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The Calgary mother who said she gave her son holistic remedies for what she believed was a cold or flu before his death was found guilty following a two-week trial late last year.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking.

The new whitehouse.gov, unlike the online home of the Obama administration, has no Spanish-language content.

President calls move 'a great thing for the American workers'; Canadian trade expert says move heralds trouble

Authorities in Malaysia are on alert as Canada gets set to deport an unrepentant serial rapist back to his homeland.

Saudi national Abu Abdel Rahman was killed by an unknown gunman in besieged Mosul, the terror group's northern Iraqi stronghold, according to a security source.

Footage shared online Saturday shows the woman (left) telling the man next to her: 'You pretend you have the moral high ground but you put that man's finger on the nuclear button.'

The Canadian Forces Ombudsman is halfway through an investigation into the Canadian Rangers and says the northern patrol unit lacks support staff and access to health care. His investigation follows CBC News stories about deaths among members of the remot

Donald Trump's 'running war' on the media is continuing into his presidency, with statements over the weekend calling into question the extent to which information from the White House can be trusted.

Swedish detectives are investigating allegations that a woman was gang-raped in an attack that was broadcast on Facebook Live.

A man who was hiking across America barefoot on the side of highways to 'save the earth' was struck by a Buick SUV and died Saturday.

When RCMP in Castlegar, B.C., busted a major marijuana grow-op outside of town recently, they weren't expecting fumes from the proceeds to later waft across town.

OPEC and key non-OPEC oil producers seeking to push up the price of crude by cutting production say participants appear to be exceeding pledges to reduce output.

The president of the German Olympic Committee has called for Russia to be banned from the 2018 and 2020 Olympics if sports bosses there are found to have known about state-sponsored doping.

A group of first responders and families will appear in the House of Commons next month to call for a national strategy to help Canadian paramedics, firefighters, police officers and veterans who are in crisis.

Most of the 230 rioters arrested in Washington D.C. following Donald Trump's inauguration will be charged with felony rioting, which carries a punishment of up to 10 years in jail and $25k fine.

CALGARY - On Retro Night at the Saddledome Saturday, the Edmonton Oilers treated Calgary Flames goalie Chad Johnson like he was the beleaguered Reggie Lemelin back in 80s when the playful media in the Rexall Place press box used to wage on what OilerS sho

Man shot with possible life-threatening injuries, protests outside Milo Yiannopoulos event at University of Washington

The former UKIP leader will contribute to Fox News' main channel and business network.

The Gore Effect. Below-freezing temperatures arrive with opening night for Al Gore's sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth."

Trump gets to work: Donald signed his first executive orders in the Oval Office on Friday evening. He declared General James Mattis Secretary of Defense and signed another targeted at Affordable Care Act. The orders came within minutes of Trump's official

One former Dragons' Den star is defending a second after an unflattering critique from a third.

Henrik Sedin has the 1,000th point of his NHL career. The captain of the Vancouver Canucks reached the milestone on Friday night with a goal in the second period against the Florida Panthers.

The mysterious "ping" sound reported last fall is being investigated again by the military, which in November sent a surveillance plane to the area.

Miguel Ferrer, who brought stern authority to his featured role on CBS' hit "NCIS: Los Angeles" and, before that, to NBC crime drama "Crossing Jordan," has died.

Conservation officers have captured and destroyed a mother cougar in Penticton, one day after they euthanized three juvenile cougars that were hunting in the city near an elementary school.

Premier Brian Pallister is coming under fire for saying divisions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people over night hunting are "becoming a race war."

After consultation with the public, the federal government says it plans to go ahead with the demolition of Winnipeg's Kapyong Barracks.

Less than an hour after the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, the new administration posted a document on the White House website outlining its energy policy, which aims to focus on gas and oil, and reviving the coal industry.

Or, how I got a cop to admit that he perjured himself in Alabama traffic court.

Former prime minister Stephen Harper says he is taking a "glass half full" approach to the ascendancy of Donald Trump to the White House.

Internal reports detailing critical IT failures at the RCMP suggest that in spite of promises to improve tech support for the national police force, gaffes and poor service at Shared Services Canada continue to jeopardize police work as well as officer an

Rescuers fear that guests who survived the avalanche might have succumbed to the frigid temperatures

China's energy regulator has ordered 11 provinces to stop more than 100 coal-fired power projects, with a combined installed capacity of more than 100 gigawatts, its latest dramatic step to curb the use of fossil fuels in the world's top energy market.

Tory will lead about two dozen entertainment industry and university representatives to L.A. next week.

Mark Livingstone inappropriately entered the NDP�s research office on Nov. 3, 2016

The Canada Revenue Agency is scrutinizing the Facebook pages and other social media posts of people it believes are at "high risk" of cheating on their taxes. It's also rapidly expanding its use of cutting-edge big data techniques for everything from impr

One thing about Connor McDavid: he's all about timing. On the night when McDavid reached 100 points in the first period, he then gave the Edmonton Oilers a 4-3 OT victory when he'd been on the ice for a full minute and was dead-tired but still got free on

An Alaska volcano active since mid-December has erupted again. Bogoslof Volcano in the Aleutian lslands erupted at 1:20 p.m. Wednesday and sent up an ash cloud estimated at 31,000 feet.

Winnipeg server Jennifer Peitsch says that when you're working in restaurants, there's a great tip and then there's a life-changing tip.

Pew Research Center shows electoral power of Fox, followed by CNN and Facebook.