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On the heels of a scathing report on its environmental record, the federal government pledged Friday to lower greenhouse gas emissions by 30% below 2005 levels by the year 2030.

From the base to the peak, skiers may soon find the air a little more crisp when the Whistler Blackcomb resort bans smoking anywhere on its property by the end of the month.

The three-day weekend got a lot sweeter for five Ontarians.

A B.C. wildfire raging west of Prince George continued to burn Saturday.

A Canadian student took the top prize at the world's biggest high school science fair.

Elena Semikina knows what it’s like to have the flash of the camera go off in her face and a room full of people staring at her.

Paige Spencer can’t remember a day in the past six months when she didn’t feel pain everywhere in her body.

For people suffering with dementia, the word “yesterday” can mean 60 or 70 years ago.

A 72-year-old city man is in police custody for the fourth time in the last decade on child-porn charges.

A quiet afternoon at the local fishing hole turned into quite an adventure for two young area boys and made them an Internet sensation.

Fishermen found the body of a Quebec teen who went missing May 4 after the canoe he was in capsized and he gave the only life-jacket to a friend.

A wildfire that has forced the evacuation of 80 people is still burning southwest of Prince George, B.C., but fire officials hope cooler temperatures and rain in the forecast will help contain the blaze.

Police on Montreal's south shore are searching for a man they say attempted to kidnap a two-year-old girl in broad daylight while she was walking with her mother before a passerby rescued her.

The lawyer for accused fraudster Mike Duffy will make a final pitch to get copies of Senate expense scandal documents when his client’s fraud and breach of trust trial resumes June 1.

Three Edmonton children with cancer were recognized for their courage in the face of their disease by being bestowed as honorary police chiefs Tuesday.

A judge on Tuesday sentenced young offender Jazlyn Radke to a life sentence with no chance of parole for seven years for murdering University of Calgary student Brett Wiese.

EDMONTON -- Described as "silent killers," prescription drug abuse has become all too prevalent in Canada, the federal government says.

Ten young people suspected of trying to leave the country to join jihadist groups were arrested at Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport in Montreal over the weekend, the RCMP say.

In a series of haunting text messages, sent just hours before the last rugby game Rowan Stringer would ever play, she joked about having a possible concussion, experiencing a consistent headache and about whether she should play the next scheduled game.

Saliva through the mail could lead to a cure for stuttering, say those researching the speech disorder.

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