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Significant improvements are required to sustain Canada’s federal search-and-rescue system, said Auditor General Michael Ferguson.

A 64-year-old woman who got stuck in the mud for nearly 12 hours while walking her dog was located and rescued late Tuesday night.

Officials are investigating after a second train derailed in Saskatchewan this week.

Gifts, political donations, invitations to shows and sporting events — political organizer Gilles Cloutier says he had an arsenal at his disposal to land lucrative contracts.

Loblaw Cos Ltd, Canada’s largest food retailer, said it would soon announce more actions in the wake of the collapse of a building in Bangladesh where some of its “Joe Fresh” garments were manufactured.

Trudeaumania hasn't translated into wagons of cash at Liberal party headquarters, according to figures that show the Conservatives are mauling their rivals at fundraising.

The auditor general should appear before the Commons defence committee to discuss concerns related to search-and-rescue, the NDP said Wednesday.

Despite a barrage of criticism, the federal government is standing firm in its plan to bring labour contracts for the CBC and several other Crown corporations under federal jurisdiction, like the federal public service unions.

Canada's foreign affairs minister has made clear he's not keen on sweet-talking other governments in hopes of winning a United Nations Security Council seat in 2015.

A Commons committee has made 11 recommendations in an attempt to recover billions of dollars in tax revenue lost to tax havens and offshore accounts.

B.C. voters appear to be warming up to the federal Liberals even as they appear set to throw the provincial Liberals out of office, a new poll commissioned by Sun News Network finds.

The next election will face the same voting problems that plagued the 2011 general election, when Supreme Court justices had to weigh in on a plebiscite to decide the outcome of a Toronto seat.

Losing $3.1 billion should mean having to say you're sorry, says the NDP as it hammers the government for a second day on an auditor general's report about poor record-keeping on anti-terror spending.

An Ottawa cop who was recently acquitted of sex assault in a case of alleged cellblock brutality now faces a fresh lawsuit from another former inmate.

A judge threatened to toss alleged PQ rally shooter Richard Henry Bain from his own preliminary hearing Thursday following anti-separatist rants and other outbursts.

A Chatham man has been fined for the illegal possession of snakehead fish.

Precisely two years ago, incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative party won a majority government in the federal election.

Hidden in a sweeping new American immigration reform bill is one small provision aimed at Canadians — making it easier for grey-haired snowbirds to spend more time in the sun.

Canadians may never know how Liberal and Conservative governments spent $3.1 billion in anti-terrorism funding between 2001 and 2009.

Mandatory carriage or bust: That was Sun News' message to the CRTC hearings, where a panel is mulling whether the news station can be carried on all basic cable packages.

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