A four-day ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war began Friday in Gaza as part of an agreement that Qatar helped broker. Twenty-four hostages were freed, including 13 Israeli citizens, 10 Thai citizens and one Filipino citizen, Qatar said. Israel released 39 Palestinian prisoners later in the day.
With the truce deal comes increased shipments of fuel and supplies into Gaza -- though still only enough to dent the needs of the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza who have endured weeks of Israeli bombardment, according to aid groups. Israel has agreed to allow the delivery of 130,000 litres of fuel a day into besieged Gaza for humanitarian needs for the duration of the truce.
More than 13,300 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza after a dayslong pause in its casualty report, which it attributed to the health system's collapse in northern Gaza making it impossible to provide a detailed count.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will press ahead with the war after the ceasefire expires. Some 1,200 people have been killed in Israel, mostly during the initial incursion by Hamas.
Here's what's happening in the war:
MANILA, Philippines -- A national of the Philippines was in the first group of hostages freed by the militant group Hamas, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Saturday.
Marcos wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that 33-year-old Gelienor 'Jimmy' Pacheco, who was taken to Gaza on Oct. 7, is now in the care of the Philippine Embassy in Israel.
That Israeli Embassy in Manila said Pacheco is being medically evaluated.
Marcos said the government remains concerned about the whereabouts of Filipino national Noralyn Babadilla, who also reportedly was taken hostage by Hamas.
JERUSALEM -- Most of the Israeli hostages released by Hamas Friday were said to be in good health after returning to Israel, the hospital receiving them announced.
A statement from Schneider Children's hospital, where four women and four child hostages were released, said that doctors had conducted a preliminary examination and said they were all in good physical condition.
A total of 13 Israeli hostages were freed Friday and transferred to three separate hospitals across Israel.
JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says it has received a new list of hostages to be released by Hamas on Saturday.
It would be the second batch of hostages to be released by the Islamic militant group under a four-day truce.
Netanyahu's office says it has notified the families whose loved-ones are set for release.
NANTUCKET, Mass. -- President Joe Biden said Friday that he believes putting conditions on military aid to Israel is a "worthwhile thought," and he hopes the Gaza ceasefire will last longer than four days.
Speaking to reporters from Nantucket, Massachusetts, Biden said he was encouraged by the release of some of the hostages and hopes for more.
"We expect more hostages to be released tomorrow, and more the day after, and more the day after that," he said.
The freed hostages included 13 Israelis, 10 people from Thailand and one from the Philippines, according to Qatar, which was instrumental in brokering the deal to stop fighting. In return, Israel freed 39 Palestinians from prison.
Biden said that conditioning military aid to Israel was a "worthwhile thought, but I don't think if I started off with that we would have ever gotten where we are today."
He didn't give any examples of possible conditions.
TEL AVIV -- The Israeli military has "gotten to the heart" of Hamas' military assets and plans to continue active fighting once a ceasefire ends, a spokesman said Friday.
"There are still many goals and many tunnels to demolish, including some we have destroyed even this morning right before the ceasefire began," Israeli Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari told reporters.
Hagari spoke on the first day of a ceasefire that included an exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. The halt is scheduled expire on Monday unless additional Israeli hostages are released.
Hagari said the IDF would not allow Gazan civilians to return to their homes in the northern part of the Strip.
Israeli troops fatally shot two Palestinians and wounded 11 others on Friday as they headed toward the main combat zone in northern Gaza despite warnings by the Israeli army to stay put.
TEL AVIV -- Israel confirmed Friday that it released 39 Palestinian prisoners in line with a truce deal that saw 13 Israeli hostages freed by militants in Gaza hours earlier.
Qadura Fares, who heads an advocacy group for prisoners, said 33 prisoners freed in the West Bank were handed to a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross. He said the remaining six were being freed from a Jerusalem lockup.
The releases on both sides were part of a deal for a four-day truce in the Israel-Hamas war that began Friday.
Over the next four days, 150 Palestinian prisoners and 50 Israeli hostages are to be freed.
TEL AVIV -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday welcomed the release of hostages taken in Hamas' Oct. 7 raid into Israel, including 13 Israeli citizens, but said his government is committed to the return of all hostages.
About 240 people were taken in the attack.
Netanyahu described each of the hostages released as a four-day ceasefire began as "a world of their own."
He said getting back all the hostages "is one of the goals of the war and we are committed to achieving all of the goals of the war."
OUTSIDE OFER PRISON, West Bank -- Israeli security forces fired volleys of tear gas Friday at thousands of Palestinians from all over the West Bank excitedly awaiting the release of 39 Palestinians in exchange for the hostages released by Hamas from Gaza.
Crowds have been waiting for hours outside Israel's Ofer Prison in the West Bank, where the Palestinians are expected to emerge at any moment.
Shortly after some raucous boys surged through the crowds with Hamas flags, Israeli forces unleashed tear gas, sending families bolting in the opposite direction, screaming, coughing and covering their watery, bloodshot eyes with their shirts.
JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military says the hostages released by Hamas as part of a ceasefire deal have returned to Israel.
In a statement Friday, it said the hostages have undergone an initial medical check inside Israeli territory.
Qatar said a total of 24 hostages were freed -- including 13 Israelis.
DOHA, Qatar -- Qatar's Foreign Ministry has confirmed the release of 24 hostages after seven weeks of captivity in the Gaza Strip.
"Those released include 13 Israeli citizens, some of whom are dual citizens, in addition to 10 Thai citizens and a Filipino citizen," said Majed al-Ansari, the ministry's spokesman. Qatar was a key mediator in the hostage release.
The International Committee of the Red Cross, which delivered the hostages from Gaza into Egypt, also confirmed the release.
The hostages, women and children, were undergoing medical checks before they were to be transferred to Israel. They are to be taken to Israeli hospitals and reunited with their families. They're the first of 50 people to be released from Gaza during a four-day truce that began Friday.
Israel is to release 39 Palestinian prisoners later Friday, the first of a total of 150 Palestinian prisoners to be freed under the ceasefire.
Israel declared war against Hamas after the Islamic militant group killed at least 1,200 people and kidnapped 240 others in an Oct. 7 cross-border attack. The war also has killed over 13,000 Palestinians and caused widespread damage in Gaza, according to health authorities in the Hamas-run territory.
RAFAH, Egypt -- The Israeli government has summoned the ambassadors of Spain and Belgium after remarks by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and his Belgian counterpart Alexander de Croo Friday criticizing the bombing of civilians in Gaza and urging recognition for a Palestinian state.
Speaking at a joint press conference on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on Friday, Sanchez said the time has come for the international community and the European Union to recognize the State of Palestine, and warned that if it did not, Spain might do so on its own.
He said it would better if the EU did it together, "but if this is not the case, Spain will take their own decisions."
He was speaking at end of a two-day visit to Israel, Palestinian Territories and Egypt with de Croo.
Israel has the right to defend itself "but it must do so within the parameters and limits imposed by international humanitarian law and this is not the case," Sanchez said. "The indiscriminate killing of civilians, including thousands of boys and girls, are completely unacceptable."
GENEVA -- The Red Cross says it has begun a "multi-day operation" to reunite hostages and detainees on both sides of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.
The group's announcement came as Israeli media reported the Hamas militant group on Friday released the first batch of hostages under a ceasefire deal. The deal calls for 50 hostages to be freed over a four-day truce, with Israel to free 150 Palestinians in prison.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says it will also be ferrying in medical supplies for hospitals in Gaza.
The Geneva-based humanitarian organization said Friday it had no role in the negotiations and that the parties in the conflict agreed to the details of the operation, including who will be released and when.
"Our deep desire is for all hostages to be released, and that civilians be shielded from the pain and suffering that armed conflict brings," said Fabrizio Carboni, the organization's regional director for the Near and Middle East.
WASHINGTON -- The lead U.S. development agency is urging a rapid ramping-up of humanitarian assistance to battered Gaza for the long term, calling it "urgent and imperative."
Samantha Power, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, made the call in a statement Thursday, as a carefully negotiated ceasefire and hostage release began in the Gaza Strip.
Power called the ceasefire "a direct result of U.S. diplomacy with our partners in the region."
With 1.7 million people in Gaza internally displaced and virtually all of the 2.3 million people there needing aid, "the scale of humanitarian needs in Gaza is staggering," Power wrote.
"It is both urgent and imperative that lasting mechanisms be put in place to significantly accelerate the pace of sustained aid into Gaza," Power wrote.
As the largest donor to UN assistance in Gaza, the U.S. also is urging other countries to fund emergency appeals from the United Nations for urgent assistance for Gaza's civilians, Power said.
BAGHDAD -- Iranian-backed militias that have launched dozens of rocket and drone attacks on bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria in recent weeks held their fire on Friday, the first day of the a four-day truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
The lull came after an escalation this week in which U.S. warplanes killed multiple militants from the powerful Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah militia in response to the first use of short-range ballistic missiles against U.S. forces at Al-Asad Air Base.
Milita spokesman Jaafar al-Husseini said his group is "not necessarily" observing the truce -- which only officially pertains to Gaza -- but is "monitoring" the behaviour of the United States and will act accordingly.
Kataib Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed militant groups under the umbrella group called the Islamic Resistance in Iraq began striking U.S. facilities Oct. 17 and have since launched more than 60 attacks in Iraq and Syria. The militant groups have said they are retaliating against the U.S. for its support of the Israeli offensive in Gaza that has killed more than 13,300 Palestinians, following the Hamas-led Oct. 7 surprise attack that killed about 1,200 Israelis.
Likewise, in southern Lebanon, where the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has exchanged fire with Israeli forces throughout the Israel-Hamas war, a cautious calm prevailed Friday. Some of the more than 55,000 Lebanese displaced by the fighting began returning to inspect their houses and businesses in border towns.
JERUSALEM -- Israeli media say the Hamas militant group has released the first batch of hostages under a ceasefire deal Friday, including 13 Israelis who have been held in the Gaza Strip for nearly seven weeks.
The media cited Israeli security officials.
Twelve Thai nationals were also released, according to Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin.
Under a deal negotiated by Qatar, 50 hostages are set to be freed during a four-day truce.
Israel is set to free 150 Palestinians over the next four days as part of the deal. Thirty-nine prisoners are to be freed Friday.
JERUSALEM -- Thousands of Israelis gathered in what has been dubbed "Hostages Square" in Tel Aviv on Friday evening, singing songs to welcome the Jewish Sabbath and watching newscasts on large screens as they waited to receive news of the release of 13 Israeli hostages slated to be freed.
"My emotions are mixed," Shelli Shem Tov, the mother of 21-year-old hostage Omer Shem Tov, told Israeli's Channel 12 at the square. "I'm excited for the families that are going to hug their loved ones, I'm jealous, and I'm sad, mostly sad, that Omer is not coming home yet."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant will monitor the hostage release from the Kirya in Tel Aviv, along with several close aides, according to a statement from the Prime Minister's office.
BANGKOK -- Twelve Thai nationals were released from Gaza on Friday, Thailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
It said the 12 hostages have passed through the Rafah crossing and are on the way to Israel's Hatzerim air base, and will then be taken to a hospital.
The ministry says 39 Thai citizens were killed in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack in Israel and 26 were taken hostage.
Egypt's state information service said the 12 Thais is in addition to 13 Israeli captives who are to be freed Friday.
BEITOUNIA, West Bank -- Israeli security forces are firing tear gas at a crowd of Palestinians gathered to greet prisoners who are to be released from Israeli jails as part of a truce between Israel and Hamas, AP journalists in the West Bank witnessed.
Tear gas was fired to push away crowds from the vicinity of Ofer prison, from where the prisoners are to be released later on Friday.
Palestinian authorities have released a list of 39 Palestinian prisoners expected to be released on Friday, including 24 women and 15 teenage boys, in exchange for 13 Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
In all, 50 hostages and 150 Palestinian prisoners are to be freed during the four-day truce.
JERUSALEM -- Israel's foreign minister said Friday that Israel will resume the war against Hamas after a temporary ceasefire ends.
A truce in the Israel-Hamas war began Friday, setting the stage for the release of 50 hostages held by militants in Gaza in exchange for 150 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. The releases are to take place in stages over four days.
The truce could be extended by a day for each additional release of 10 more hostages -- an arrangement that could translate into a longer ceasefire. In all, militants from Hamas and other groups kidnapped about 240 people in their Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
Israeli leaders have pledged that the war will resume.
"Israel will continue its war on Hamas and we will not stop until we achieve our two main goals, overthrowing the rule of Hamas and returning all the abductees back to us, safe and sound," Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said Friday as he toured Israel's ravaged border areas with his counterparts from Portugal and Slovenia.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant have made similar pledges.
However, the government is under intense public pressure to bring all hostages home, which might make a resumption of the war exceedingly difficult.
JERUSALEM -- Palestinian authorities have released a list of 39 Palestinian prisoners expected to be released on Friday, including 24 women and 15 teenage boys, in exchange for 13 Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
The swap is part of a four-day truce in the Israel-Hamas war. The truce began Friday after seven weeks of war.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club, an advocacy group, said the 39 detainees from the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem will be delivered to the International Committee of the Red Cross at Israel's Ofer Prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Their release is to take place after 4 p.m. local time (1400 GMT), when Hamas is due to return the 13 Israeli hostages to Israel.
Most of the 15 Palestinian teenagers to be released Friday were arrested over incitement and stone-throwing, as well as the broadly defined charge of "supporting terrorism."
The 24 women include some convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to yearslong prison terms for attacks against Israeli security forces.
In all, 50 hostages and 150 Palestinian prisoners are to be freed during the four-day truce.
Israel currently holds 7,200 Palestinians charged with or convicted of security offences.
The Prisoners' Club said about 2,000 Palestinians were arrested since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel that triggered the war.
BEIJING -- French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna called Friday for the release of all hostages held in Gaza, including eight French citizens, and a lasting truce between Israel and Hamas.
''It is essential that international law is applied there (in Gaza) as elsewhere," Colonna said during a trip to Beijing. `'All states have the right to defend themselves, but we must cooperate so that terrorism is contained."
She called for a durable truce so that `'the wounded can be treated, and humanitarian aid can arrive and ease the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza."
The eight French hostages in Gaza include three children. The French president, foreign minister and defence minister have travelled to the region in recent weeks to push for their release and a long-term peace.
Forty French citizens were killed in the Hamas attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, and two French citizens have been killed in attacks on Gaza, according to the Foreign Ministry. France has sent flights and warships to bring humanitarian aid for Gaza.
HATZERIM MILITARY BASE, Israel -- Ambulances arrived at Hatzerim military air base in southern Israel on Friday, hours before hostages were expected to arrive after being released from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli officials said that after arriving at the air base escorted by Israeli soldiers, the released hostages will be flown or driven to five different hospitals across the country for medical treatment, as needed.
Gaza's ruling Hamas group has pledged to free at least 50 of the about 240 hostages it and other militants took in their deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel. In turn, Israel is to free three Palestinian prisoners for each released hostage. The releases are to take place in stages over the next four days.
JERUSALEM -- Israeli forces shot and killed a 12-year-old Palestinian boy in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said Friday, as violence surges in the territory under the shadow of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
The boy was killed Thursday in the village of Beita near the flashpoint city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, the officials said.
The Israeli military said Palestinians threw stones when soldiers entered the village and that troops responded with live fire. The military said it was looking into the circumstances of the boy's death.
Since the Israel-Hamas war began seven weeks ago, the West Bank has seen one of the deadliest periods in at least two decades. Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed 229 Palestinians, including 52 children and minors under the age of 18, in arrest raids and violent confrontations, according to UN figures.
The war was triggered by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel in which about 1,200 people were killed.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip -- Israeli troops fatally shot two Palestinians and wounded 11 others as they headed toward the main combat zone in northern Gaza despite warnings by the Israeli army to stay put.
An Associated Press journalist saw the two bodies and the wounded as they arrived at a hospital in the town of Deir al-Balah in the southern half of Gaza. The injured had been shot in the legs.
Friday's shooting came hours after the Israeli military warned hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians who sought refuge in southern Gaza not to attempt to return to their homes in the northern half of the territory, the focus of Israel's ground offensive.
The military had dropped leaflets on southern Gaza saying that returning to northern Gaza is prohibited and dangerous.
Since a four-day truce went into effect Friday morning, hundreds of Palestinians were seen trying to head to northern Gaza.
Witnesses said Israeli troops are opening fire on people trying to head north.
Sofian Abu Amer, who had fled Gaza City, said he decided to risk heading north to check on his home.
"We don't have enough clothes, food and drinks," he said. "The situation is disastrous. It's better for a person to die."
Since the early days of the war triggered by the Hamas attack on southern Israel seven weeks ago, hundreds of thousands of people have left their homes in the north at the orders of the Israeli army.
BEIRUT -- The leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group said Friday that Israeli soldiers among the 240 hostages held by militant groups in Gaza will only be released in exchange for all the Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
Islamic Jihad is reportedly holding about 40 of the hostages who were captured by Hamas and other militant groups during their Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel. Over the next four days, 50 hostages are to be released in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners, with both sides releasing women and children first.
In a televised speech on the first day of what is meant to be a four-day truce in the Israel-Hamas war, Islamic Jihad leader Ziad Nakhaleh said that "the enemy's military prisoners will not be released without the freedom of our prisoners and this is linked to the end of the aggression." He said that Israel would be forced to "eventually reach a deal of everyone in return for everyone."
It was not immediately clear how many of the hostages held in Gaza are currently serving in the military and whether the militants also consider reserve soldiers to be military hostages.
Close to 7,000 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel on security charges, including about 1,800 arrested since the start of the war.
JERUSALEM -- Israel announced that four tankers with fuel and four tankers with cooking gas entered the Gaza Strip on Friday, the first day of what is meant to be a four-day ceasefire.
Israel has agreed to allow the delivery of 130,000 litres (34,300 gallons) of fuel a day into besieged Gaza for humanitarian needs for the duration of the truce. This would be roughly twice the amount permitted previously, but still only a small portion of Gaza's daily needs, estimated at more than one million litres (264,000 gallons).
For most of the past seven weeks of war, Israel had barred the entry of any fuel to Gaza, claiming it could be used by Hamas for military purposes. United Nations aid agencies pushed back against such claims, saying fuel deliveries were closely supervised and urgently needed to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.
It was not immediately clear if Friday's deliveries meant the new daily target set by the truce deal had been reached. The announcement was made by COGAT, a body in Israel's defence ministry responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs.
BANGKOK -- Thailand's foreign minister said Friday morning that he has not yet been able to confirm media reports that 23 Thai workers held hostage in Gaza were set to be released. But, the minister said, his Iranian counterpart, who is serving as an intermediary with Hamas, told him there will be "good news soon."
Thai Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara said his ministry has been preparing to receive the hostages if and when they are released.
Qatari officials, who have been the main intermediaries in hostage release talks, will have a meeting about the matter, Parnpree said, and by Friday afternoon Thai officials expect to know more developments and hope it will be good news.
The missing workers were among about 30,000 Thais employed mostly in Israel's agricultural sector. According to the Thai foreign ministry, 39 were killed in the Oct. 7 attacks, and 36 abducted. More than 8,600 workers have been voluntarily repatriated home since the attacks.
JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military said Friday it has destroyed stretches of tunnels and a number of tunnel shafts in the area of Shifa Hospital, Gaza's largest.
On Wednesday, Israel showed a tunnel and rooms that military officials said were a major Hamas hideout beneath Shifa. Hamas and hospital staff deny Israeli allegations that Shifa was used as a militant command centre.
On Thursday, Israeli military spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Israel mapped out Shifa Hospital and plans to destroy all "terror infrastructure" it has found.
Separately, the military said it continued to strike targets throughout the night leading up to a four-day truce that began Friday morning. It said it "completed its operational preparations according to the combat lines of the pause."
A temporary truce in the Israel-Hamas war took effect early Friday, setting the stage for the exchange of dozens of hostages held by militants in Gaza for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
The halt in fighting began at 7 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) and is to last at least four days. During the truce, Gaza's ruling Hamas group pledged to free at least 50 of the about 240 hostages it and other militants took in their deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel. In turn, Israel is to free three Palestinian prisoners for each released hostage. The releases are to take place in stages over the next four days.
The truce deal was reached in weeks of intense indirect negotiations, with Qatar, the United States and Egypt serving as mediators. If it holds, it would mark the first significant break in fighting since Israel declared war on Hamas seven weeks ago.
About 1,200 people were killed by Hamas attackers in Israel on Oct. 7. Israel responded with a massive air and ground offensive that has devastated large swaths of Gaza and killed at least 13,300 Palestinians.
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Family and friends are mourning the loss of an Alberta couple who were killed Sunday in a highway crash northwest of Lethbridge, Alta.
As a housing crisis continues in Calgary, the city is looking to strike a balance between increasing density – both in established neighbourhoods and in new ones.
More reaction is coming from parents as the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board looks to make major adjustments to its elementary programs including French immersion and how it is delivered.
It's been a rocky start to the $10-a-day daycare program in Ontario. There still aren't enough spots and many daycares are short funding and say they may opt-out all together.
The Ottawa Fire Service says firefighters responded to a call for a fire on Tall Oak Private, near the Ottawa Hospital General Campus, at approximately 9:30 a.m.
A father has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of his 34-year-old daughter in southern Quebec.
A Montreal father who kidnapped his daughter who has autism and lied to police when they asked where she was should serve three years in prison, a Crown prosecutor said.
Quebec's Crown prosecution office said it will not lay charges against a Montreal imam following comments he made at a pro-Palestinian rally last fall.
Some Fort McMurray evacuees say they're struggling to access supplies and accommodations after leaving their homes and travelling to Edmonton.
A dead serial sexual offender and killer has been linked to four homicides in the 1970s in Alberta, RCMP say.
Alberta's police watchdog has determined the amount of force used by RCMP officers in the shooting death on Highway 2 near Leduc of an armed man in May 2020 was justified, with its report into the incident saying there are no "reasonable grounds to believe an offence was committed."
A Nova Scotia couple is $5 million richer after winning the latest Atlantic Lottery 6/49 draw.
A section of Highway 102 is closed Thursday evening after a transport truck drove off an overpass.
Veteran TSN broadcaster Darren 'Dutch' Dutchyshen, one of Canada’s best-known sports journalists, has died. He was 57. His family says 'he passed as he was surrounded by his closest loved ones.'
A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect for Winnipeg, producing heavy rain and hail in some areas of the city.
A second chance could be coming for dozens of dogs seized from inhumane conditions at a Winnipeg home.
Jeremy Skibicki’s ex-wife was called as a Crown witness in the 37-year-old accused’s quadruple homicide trial in Manitoba’s Court of King’s Bench on Thursday.
Police have issued a Canada-wide warrant for a man wanted in a homicide which occurred in Regina on May 12.
The Speaker of the Saskatchewan Legislature Randy Weekes has severed ties with the Sask. Party after accusing some members of harassment and intimidation tactics, including a situation he claimed saw the Government House Leader bring a hunting rifle to the legislative building.
A tornado warning has been issued for a small region of southwest Saskatchewan.
A Waterloo MPP is speaking out after her private member’s bill, aimed at improving transparency around sexual assault cases, was pulled from debate.
Most people want to break out of an escape room. A Waterloo, Ont. business, however, has been broken into – not once – but twice.
The local humane society is asking for the public's help to care for five puppies that were found abandoned in a box near Hwy. 401 in Kitchener.
Giant Tiger has announced that the company is closing a number of stores including one location in Saskatoon.
A new zoning bylaw, that would allow livestock operations to be closer to homes in the RM of Dundurn, Sask., isn't sitting well with those who live near Blackstrap Lake.
Saskatoon city councillors are mulling options to provide public washroom facilities in two of the city’s core neighbourhoods.
One person is in custody while a second suspect is on the loose following a stabbing that sent two people to hospital in northern Ontario, police say.
A legal clinic from southern Ontario is reminding Timmins city council that it’s “unlawful” in Ontario to evict people from homeless encampments on public property.
Repairing the scales at Sudbury’s main landfill site on The Kingsway is causing delays and long lineups for residents and businesses using the site to dispose of waste and trimmings.
It’s been three months since 38-year-old Tanya Wiebe was found dead inside a home on Roberts Line in Central Elgin.
LIving next to the boarded up house at 219 Adelaide St. N. for two years has taken a toll on Theresa Mullins and her family.
A man who was pulled from a burning building in Old East Village on Wednesday has succumbed to his injuries, London police announced on Thursday.
Zehrs has returned to the north end of Barrie.
Six months after being found guilty of a fatal hit and run in 2018 that claimed the life of Dominik Adamek in Springwater Township, Maimuna Baldeh heard from his grieving family, who told the court about the pain they've endured since that day.
A beloved community staple in cottage country is finally reopening after a destructive fire forced it to shutter its doors last spring.
Windsor police officers have arrested one suspect and seized over $250,000 in illegal drugs after an investigation.
Just 26 metres is all that remains of bridge deck construction on the Gordie Howe International Bridge between Windsor and Detroit.
The Windsor Essex Child/Youth Advocacy Centre (WECYAC) is calling on the community to learn more about local services as part of Victims and Survivors of Crime Week 2024.
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has sentenced the mother and stepfather of a six-year-old boy who died from blunt-force trauma in 2018 to 15 years in prison.
Premier David Eby delivered an election-style speech to his New Democrat caucus, warning of the potential merger between the opposition BC United and B.C. Conservative parties, saying the fall election is shaping up to be the "starkest choice in a generation."
A nurse in Metro Vancouver has been suspended for two weeks and ordered to take remedial education after she accessed the personal health records of several people for no work-related purpose.
One person is dead after a fight in Penticton early Sunday morning, according to authorities.
A suspect is at large after robbing a convenience store at gunpoint in Merritt, B.C., Friday, according to local police.
After four targeted shootings in four days, Mounties in Kamloops are taking the unusual step of warning the public about two men they believe are likely to be targeted in future violent incidents.
Lethbridge has been working to address lawlessness in the city’s downtown over the past six months.
It's just about patio season in Lethbridge, and the city is once again rolling out its annual patios and parklets program.
Family and friends are mourning the loss of an Alberta couple who were killed Sunday in a highway crash northwest of Lethbridge, Alta.
With no active wildland fires burning in northern Ontario, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry sent 10 crews to Manitoba to help battle the blazes there.
Patricia Doiron of Sault Ste. Marie won $250,000 playing Instant Bingo Multiplier.
Sault Ste. Marie city council is calling on the provincial government to recognize Ontario’s physician shortage.
A new study shows an Atlantic salmon population in southern Newfoundland is disappearing, and it says nearby aquaculture operations are a likely contributor to the decline.
Police in Newfoundland say patrol officers were assaulted Thursday by a "very irate male" wielding a block of cheese.
Health officials say there is an outbreak of whooping cough in eastern Newfoundland.
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