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The three-year-old who died after falling from a 17th-floor apartment window was celebrating his sister's birthday at the time of the tragedy.

PEMBROKE, Ont. -- Police arrested a member of the Canadian Armed Forces after a standoff at an eastern Ontario military base on Monday.

OTTAWA -- The problem with accusing suspended senator Mike Duffy of fraud is that the Senate rules aren't clear about what is considered a "primary residence," his lawyer said Monday.

The man accused in the deaths of two young boys suffocated by a python in New Brunswick has elected for a trial by jury, reports Acadie Nouvelle.

The family of an Ottawa woman feared missing among the devastation in Nepal is breathing a sigh of relief Monday.

VANCOUVER -- Vancouver police had a different kind of stand-off to deal with when a mother duck and her nine ducklings tried to bust out of police headquarters.

A dead newborn baby found outside a church in central P.E.I., two weeks ago is being investigated as a homicide, Mounties said Tuesday.

Federal health authorities haven't done enough to protect the effectiveness of antimicrobial drugs and stop the spread of drug-resistant organisms, the auditor general says.

Two Nova Scotia men were sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for dousing a mentally ill homeless man with $10 worth of gasoline and burning him to death in a Berwick, N.S., bus shelter.

Two men and a woman were found dead in Lethbridge, Alta., early Tuesday at what police described as a violent homicide scene.

Police say a suspect in the killings of two street people is in custody.

Sen. Mike Duffy’s very first travel claim -- for a 2008 trip to P.E.I. -- was reviewed by two Senate workers and he was assigned temporary staff until he hired his own, senior Senate manager Nicole Proulx testified Tuesday at the embattled politician’s criminal trial.

Thalidomide survivors say they're "shocked and concerned" that Health Canada appears to be stonewalling them on the millions in compensation, which they urgently need and was promised to them early last month.

J.B. Lemay has never turned his back on a souvenir -- most timely of all, a bit of aging paper, torn from a Teletype machine 70 years ago.

A bell rang when I laid eyes on the new logo for Canada’s looming 150th birthday bash.

Most Canadians expect the health-care system to fail them when they need it most, suggests a new Nanos poll exclusive to Postmedia Network.

A father in Squamish, B.C., says he is outraged with RCMP after an officer scolded his wife for allowing their four-year-old son to play naked in the front yard last week.

Loretta Saunders' murder was "despicable, cowardly and pointless," the judge said before sentencing her killers Wednesday, The Chronicle Herald reports.

Just as it wasn’t easy to liberate Holland from the Nazis, it is proving to be an arduous task to grant a veteran’s wish to have his son travel with him to the Netherlands to commemorate one of Canada’s greatest military achievements.

Quebec police have arrested a woman who they say hacked into people's computers, spied on them via their webcams, taunted them over their speakers and forced them to look at "extreme pornography."

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