NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 12-2016

Bo Horvat scored the lone goal in the shootout and Jacob Markstrom made 42 saves for the Vancouver Canucks in a 3-2 win against the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place on Saturday.

As 2016 drew to a close, revellers in Canada celebrated a milestone birthday while bidding a weary adieu to a year filled with political surprises, prolonged conflicts and deaths of legendary celebrities.

Two trumpeter swans that were found emaciated have spent weeks recovering at the Wildlife Rescue Association of B.C. and have now been released back into the wild.

These pictures show the shattered remains of what was once one of the most magnificent cities in the Middle East. The ancient Iraqi city of Nimrud has been reduced to rubble by Islamic State.

The city of Nimrud in northern Iraq is in pieces, victim of the Islamic State group's fervour to erase history. The remains of its palaces and temples, once lined in brilliant reliefs of gods and kings, have been blown up.

AN ENTREPRENEUR from Germany has created trousers with the aim of protecting women from possible sex attacks while they are out jogging - and the first 150 were sold out immediately.

Researchers from the University of Rochester have discovered evidence of an ancient bird that inhabited the Arctic at a time when the climate would have been much warmer.

While many people will be counting down to ring in the new year, they'll have to make room for an extra second.

A space-hunting program has spotted what could be two new comets, one that will pass Earth in February.

Officers patrolling New York City's harbour in a police boat have spotted a whale in the East River.

Edmonton police say a man used a front-end loader to steal a bank machine -- the second such crime this week.

A British Columbia Mountie who usually handles dogs, found himself wrangling a deer this week.

Calgary police have charged a pilot after he allegedly passed out from intoxication in the cockpit of a plane full of passengers and crew.

Only 48 seconds after the opening bell, the comeback was over. Ronda Rousey, the UFC's once-great hope and the sport's all-dominating athlete, saw her chance to redeem her November 2015 loss to Holly Holm.

Two women got into an Uber with the girl outside a house in Sacramento, California. Halfway to their destination, they told her to check for guns before 'touching up the guy'

Edmonton police said Friday that a man in his 20s was facing more than a dozen charges connected to human trafficking, while investigators believe there could be more victims out there.

The veterinarian and founder of the Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre is frustrated after a bald eagle died Tuesday from lead poisoning that measured at "over maximum toxicity" levels.

Josh Hopkins was playing alone in the woods near his home on Boxing Day when he got lost. After spending six hours in the cold, it was a text that helped rescue him.

Preparations are well underway on Parliament Hill for the official New Year's kick-off to Canada's 150th anniversary, including an increase in special security precautions.

Alberta's agriculture minister is not ruling out additional support for farmers concerned about the impact the province's upcoming carbon tax will have on their operations.

Tomas Martinez-Maldonado, 41, remains jailed in Geary County, Kansas, on $100,000 bond on a charge of raping a 12-year-old girl on board a Greyhound bus in late September.

Experts say report is too little too late and comes after several others from private sector detailing alleged exploits of groups Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear

Canadian sisters detained in Lagos, Nigeria for allegedly extorting a local billionaire and cyber-bullying hundreds of others have issued an apology.

Two people have been charged more than a year after a cheetah was spotted wandering the snowy roads in southeastern British Columbia.

Syrian opposition activists say a nationwide cease-fire that went into effect at midnight is holding despite minor violations.

After years of failed talks over a separate Palestinian state, some Palestinian leaders are mulling a provocative alternative: equal rights as part of one binational state.

Beginning on Jan. 1, prostitution by minors will be legal in California. SB 1322 bars law enforcement from arresting sex workers who are under the age of 18 for soliciting or engaging in prostitution, or loitering with the intent to do so.

The lid has been lifted on 'Russian spy bases' after President Obama ordered operatives out of the country as part of sanction announced for their alleged role in hacking during the election.

Edmonton was worthy 3-1 empty-net-goal winners. It was only the second time in the last 21 meetings with the Tinsel town team that the Oilers had won in regulation time. The result was bound to make a statement on way or the other with the Oilers coming o

Vancouver Police Detective James Fisher has been charged with three counts of sexual exploitation, one count of sexual assault, one count of breach of trust and one count of attempt to obstruct justice according to court documents obtained by CBC News.

A six-year-old girl used her sleeping mother's thumbprint to buy $250 worth of Pokemon online, in a move worthy of James Bond.

A mother and father in B.C. claim their child's new Hatchimal toy is spouting swear words, amid an otherwise unintelligible stream of gibberish.

A New Jersey woman and her 5-year-old great-granddaughter have been found alive in secluded woods in rural Virginia, apparently stranded there for days after disappearing on a holiday road trip, authorities said.

The Syrian government and rebels agree a nationwide ceasefire, backed by Russia and Turkey.

In fact, those jobs were already created. And not by him.

In honour of a momentous year here are some of the most popular and widely shared photos taken from space in 2016.

A police force in southwestern Ontario has released a list of the silliest 911 it received in 2016.

Dozens of bald eagles that have flocked to British Columbia's Lower Mainland this year have been killed after they perched on power poles instead of trees.

Social media users are casting their "likes" for photos of exotic lobsters in an online contest that has a multitude of multicoloured, oversized and extra-limbed critters clawing to be crowned craziest crustacean.

At least a dozen trees have been damaged in the Lower MacKay Creek Park near the Capilano Mall.

Legendary actress Debbie Reynolds has died, a day after her famous daughter Carrie Fisher passed away. She was 84.

Sen. Lindsey Graham will propose a measure to pull US funding for the United Nations unless the UN Security Council repeals the resolution it passed condemning Israeli settlements.

Ellen Watters, a Canadian competitive cyclist critically injured in a collision with a car while on a training ride in Sussex, N.B., has died. She was 28.

Officers with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans are out surveying beaches today in Nova Scotia's Digby and Annapolis counties, hoping to find answers to why thousands of dead sea creatures have been washing ashore.

Officers in Arkansas are hoping the smart speaker's recordings can provide some clues on a murder.

Shinzo Abe landed on Oahu on Monday; he is to visit the USS Arizona memorial tomorrow.

David and Jenny Williams from Denton, Texas, woke up to find their truck and motorcycle ablaze and the vile slur 'n***** lovers' scrawled across their garage door in spray paint on December 12.

LOS ANGELES: Dominique was hooked on cocaine and smoked two packs of cigarettes a day until she stumbled onto ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic concoction that she says has changed her life.

Indian police said Monday that they arrested four men on suspicion of raping an American tourist.

Demonstrators demanding peace in Syria have begun a 1,800-mile march from Berlin to Aleppo. The activists, who will walk all the way to the Syrian city, set off from a refugee camp this morning.

A jihadi father who used his seven-year-old daughter as a suicide bomber in Syria and was shown on a video sending her off to her death has now met his own end.

The move comes after the network learned that participants in 'Escaping the KKK' in order for production to gain access.

An FDNY firefighter was slashed and robbed of nearly $3,000 in Christmas gifts -- including a drone for his 6-year-old daughter -- as he headed to a holiday party early this morning. Steven Sampson, 41, who was off-duty, pulled over his car at a Bronx

The fall of the rebel-held Syrian city of Aleppo to Russian- and Iranian-backed forces loyal to President Bashar Assad sounds the death knell for the outgoing Obama administration's hands-off counterterrorism doctrine, analysts say.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's official IRNA news agency is reporting the deputy transport minister as saying that his county will only pay half of the announced price for 80 new Boeing planes, given the reductions in its purchasing options.

As the world battles a spike in assaults and plots by Islamist militants, Indonesia's anti-terrorism unit is drawing praise for stemming a wave of bloody attacks in the sprawling Muslim-majority nation.

Snow and strong winds could come to much of coastal B.C. Sunday evening, with up to 30 cm expected for the Central Coast, North Coast and North Vancouver Island.

Cole Cooke made the most of B.C.'s cold snap with a game of hockey on a frozen lake near Maple Ridge.

A Russian plane headed to an air base in Syria with 92 people aboard, including members of a well-known military choir, crashed into the Black Sea on Sunday minutes after taking off from the resort city of Sochi, Russia's Defence Ministry said.

Every year critters captivate online clickers. It's all that furry, feathered, big-eyed cuteness that plugs into our human wiring.

Alberta's superstar quadruplets who went viral on social media after their birth are taking the internet by storm again, this time in delightful Christmas pictures.

Little Brothers, a network that pairs up elderly people with volunteers, makes sure no one need spend Christmas alone.

Queen Elizabeth's annual Christmas message, recorded well before Dec. 25, reflects on the past year and calls for the world to come together and work towards peace. A heavy cold kept the Queen from attending the traditional Christmas morning church servic

From canned moose to rabbit stew, here are just a few of the meals that Indigenous people are sitting down to this holiday season.

An anonymous tip alerted police to an online advertisement for the endangered animals, who are less than one year old and the size of infants.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is offering a course next semester called "The Problem of Whiteness," and it's not sitting well with a Republican legislator.

'Package pirates' get away like bandits during Christmas delivery season. Fighting back with police stings, cameras and dog droppings

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) -- Thousands of pilgrims and tourists from around the world together with local Christians gathered in the biblical town of Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas eve in the traditional birthplace of Jesus, with spirits lifted by a slo

Approximately 600 rats were seized from an apartment in North Bay, Ont. on Friday, after the owner of the rodents surrendered them to authorities.

It was a tremendous year for science in 2016, as scientists plunged deeper than ever into Earth's past, identified a new solar neighbour in Earth's present, and caught a first glimpse into the very fabric of space-time itself, opening new avenues for the

A scrappy dog named Nero has a Toronto veterinarian, her colleagues and some firefighters to thank after it was hit by a streetcar and trapped under the vehicle.

CTV's Question Period tested the journalists featured on its scrum panel to see how much they remember from the year in politics. Take our interactive quiz on CTVNews.ca.

Reports in Germany claim that Till Steffen prevented law enforcers in Hamburg from releasing pictures of Anis Amri, despite him being the most wanted man in the world after Monday's terror attack.

Carl Paladino included the death of Barack Obama and 'return' of first lady Michelle Obama to Africa on his list of things he wanted for 2017

A GERMAN police officer is facing criminal proceedings after he allegedly branded Chancellor Angela Merkel 'insane'.

The RCMP in British Columbia are encouraging holiday travellers to use common sense before blindly following their GPS system, especially in winter conditions.

British Columbia's health minister says he's disappointed New Brunswick negotiated what appears to be a side deal on health care funding with the federal government after the provinces and . . .

Dogs who were saved from the Yulin Dog Meat Festival in China earlier this year are on their way to Montreal and arrive at the SPCA Friday evening.

'Southerners think it's just about whether we're going to have a white Christmas and skinny polar bears,' a climatologist says about the Arctic being the warmest place on Earth. 'But for northern people, it's a life or death situation.' He predicts the si

The federal government ran a budgetary deficit of $1.5 billion in October as increases in spending on programs outpaced increases in tax revenues.

Donald Trump abruptly calls for the United States to "greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability" until the rest of the world "comes to its senses" regarding nuclear weapons.

A woman who allegedly told police that a man had threatened to set her on fire if she did not take off her hijab was not telling the truth, according to police.

t's a piece of space tech that sounds almost too good to be true. The "reactionless" Electromagnetic Drive, or EmDrive for short, is an engine propelled solely by electromagnetic radiation confined in a microwave cavity. Such an engine would violate the l

Yahoo Inc's secret scanning of customer emails at the behest of a U.S. spy agency is part of a growing push by officials to loosen constitutional protections Americans have against arbitrary governmental searches, according to legal documents and people b

Connor McDavid should've taken a penalty shot or at least have drawn a penalty after Alex Pietrangelo hooked and slashed him, but neither happened. This play should represent a beacon for change.

But he BEAT Clinton by 3 million votes outside of California and New York

It's been 30 years since Rod Chayko was flung from a flying roller-coaster at West Edmonton Mall, and it bothers him still that there is no memorial at the site to honour the three people who died that day.

Delta Airlines is looking into a YouTube celebrity's claim that he was booted off a flight, after passengers allegedly complained that he made them uncomfortable by speaking Arabic to his mother.

Snow fell overnight in an Algerian segment of the Sahara Desert, leaving behind an incredible view on the region's iconic red sand dunes.

An 85-year-old woman who was punched in the face by a stranger and dragged from her Halifax home says she now feels nervous being in her basement apartment.

A former empire has quashed the efforts of the Temple of the Jedi Order, denying the group's application for charitable status in the U.K. on the grounds that it's not a religion.

Ontario plans to increase its charge for water-taking permits for bottled water companies in the new year, but Premier Kathleen Wynne says she wants a bigger discussion on the future of the entire industry.

Austrian police will distribute 6,000 pocket alarms on New Year's Eve to help prevent incidents like the mass sex assaults in neighbouring Germany a year ago, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.

Footage taken north of Damascus, Syria, shows a male fanatic lecturing the two children, seven and nine, about how to carry out suicide bomb attacks before they are embraced by a woman in a burka.

Police allege that 32-year-old Asma A-Noor and her 29-year-old sister Nasiba were both stabbed to death in an Ottawa home on Friday night.

Byron Nelson has spent over three decades growing his manufacturing company in Ontario, only now to regret his choice.

As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to take another foreign holiday over New Years, details about the total cost to taxpayers of his last Caribbean vacation are emerging.

The U.S. government is launching investigations to determine whether softwood lumber imports from Canada were dumped into the country and harmed the American forestry sector. It's the first step towards new duties that could be levied by next spring.

Physicists from CERN in Switzerland have taken another step forward in our understanding of the makeup of the universe.

IBM employees are taking a public stand following a personal pitch to Donald Trump from CEO Ginni Rometty and the company�s initial refusal to rule out participating in the creation of a national Muslim registry. In November, Rometty wrote Trump dire

Police responded to a call from a concerned citizen who believed an elderly woman had frozen to death in a car. It was around -13 C that morning in Hudson, just south of Albany. According to a press release from the department, a rescue squad was dispatch