Wildfires surge as B.C. records 11,000 lightning strikes, but rain helps in battle
The number of wildfires in British Columbia has surged past 180, up from about 125 on Friday, after the province recorded 11,000 lightning strikes over the weekend.
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The number of wildfires in British Columbia has surged past 180, up from about 125 on Friday, after the province recorded 11,000 lightning strikes over the weekend.
Communities on either side of the Canada-U.S. border are bracing for further economic fallout after trade talks collapsed and both countries moved deeper into a tariff fight.
Prince Harry is stepping down as a trustee of African Parks, a nonprofit organization that manages protected areas in partnership with authorities in 13 countries from Chad to Zimbabwe.
The residents of more than two-dozen properties in the community of Lions Bay along B.C.’s Sea to Sky Highway have been told they need to be ready to evacuate at a moment’s notice due to a small wildfire that sparked Sunday.
Standing outside Russia’s embassy in Ottawa, retiree Karen Niven-Wigston is decked out in yellow and blue, holding a pink plastic flamingo as a sign of support for Ukraine.
The reaction from major international news organizations reflects just how consequential the breakdown could become.
By relocating back to Britain with his family, Prince Harry will shortly open a new chapter in his ever-eventful life which once seemed improbable amid Royal feuds, battles over security and lawsuits against the U.K. tabloids.
First Nations are stuck in a “spiralling cycle” during wildfire seasons due to a lack of co-ordinated emergency management supports and a severe housing gap, the federal housing advocate is warning in a report on the 2025 wildfire season.
An Alberta homeowner had a 26-year-old maple tree cut down without her permission after a scammer, posing as her, hired an arborist to remove it while her family was away.
Bright pink socks disappeared into heavy boots as firefighter Bradley Slater pulled on 75 pounds of bunker gear for a rain-soaked five-kilometre walk on Sunday.
Two hikers had their tent damaged and became hypothermic during the severe thunderstorm that swept through southern B.C. on Saturday night.
When Vancouver Island divemaster Carl Sorensen went looking for giant octopus in the waters off Parksville the afternoon of August 17, he never expected to come face-to-face with a large blunt-nosed six-gill shark.
A small seaplane crashed into the woods on Saturday night while trying to land on water near Newfoundland and Labrador’s capital city.
A pair of Barrie twin girls have had to spend most of their life in hospital, but a pair of nurses have helped make their most recent weeks feel a bit like summer camp.
A severe and spectacular storm disrupted operations at Vancouver International Airport—leaving people on dozens of flights stuck on the tarmac until early Sunday morning.
There’s not going to be any pause in Alberta’s separation debate whether Canada is under economic attack by the United States or not.