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The Royal Alexandra Hospital closed its emergency department for 4 1/2 hours Monday morning because officials were concerned a patient might have the Ebola virus.

One of two young men accused of child porn charges in a high-profile case in Halifax pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial Monday.

It was on the eve of a Satanic holiday when Mark Dobson, lost in the heady art of witchcraft, nearly decapitated two women with a utility knife in a bloody murder-suicide pact, a Barrie courtroom heard Monday.

The beautiful colours we see in the fall are all thanks to chemistry, a new video from the American Chemical Society says.

Canadians are not only putting themselves at risk online by sharing passwords and using unsecured Internet connections, they’re also potentially putting their employers in jeopardy, a new survey found.

Stephanie Beaudoin, the Quebec woman who has been dubbed the world's hottest alleged criminal, is now an action figure.

Federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says he will continue to snub English-language Sun Media reporters in protest of an opinion piece broadcast by Ezra Levant on his Sun News Network program, The Source.

Embattled senator Mike Duffy will go to trial April 7, 2015, all but guaranteeing the prime minister won't call a spring election.

It might not have been free, but Tim Hortons coffee was on the house in Oakridge Tuesday morning.

A new $12-million health-care facility in rural Saskatchewan was designed with the help of Lego.

A former boarding school worker was sentenced Wednesday to 17 months in prison and three years' probation for taking video recordings of children in the shower.

The federal NDP leader and the Speaker of the House of Commons have seemingly kissed and made up -- for now.

The sister of Mayor Rob Ford admitted to police that she and Rob were smoking crack in her basement in the infamous second crack video in April this year, police documents indicated today.

A postal worker left behind a reasonable explanation for not delivering a package to a B.C. home. "Bear at door," the note read.

The NDP shrugged off the government's latest attempt to get a committee to force it to repay taxpayer dollars.

A judge has sentenced a Quebec City man to four years in prison for forcing two girlfriends to lose nearly 100 pounds each and pimping out one of them.

Opposition parties called for debate and a vote after Prime Minister Stephen Harper signalled to an American business audience that Canada could increase its military role in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.