NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2017

Under an anonymous back street in south London lies a vast underground air-raid shelter that has been turned into a pioneering urban farm supplying supermarkets and restaurants in the capital.

The federal government says it has implemented most recommendations from a 2012 report aimed at revitalizing British Columbia's Fraser River sockeye salmon run but the outlook for the species remains murky.

Researchers have found that not only is debris from the tsunami making its way to western shores, but so is some marine life never seen before in the region.

From Oct. 1 through March 31, drivers are required to use snow tires on most B.C. highways.

The hunter that killed a notorious female grizzly bear in B.C. after the bear wandered into the province from Alberta knew the animal was wearing a research tracking collar but shot it anyway.

It took months to identify the soldier depicted in the image engraved on the new memorial, but Lt. Michael McCauley and his wife will be in attendance at the upcoming unveiling.

A hunter from B.C. is recovering from a bear mauling earlier this week.Conservation officers say the attack was predatory, meaning the bear wanted to eat the man.

The Trump administration confirmed for the first time that it is in direct communication with North Korea's government over its escalating missile and nuclear programs.

An Air France plane en route to Los Angeles from Paris made an emergency landing in Goose Bay, N.L., after one of its engines blew out over the Atlantic Ocean.

President Trump on Saturday blasted the news media for attacking the administration's response to the hurricane disaster in Puerto Rico, saying the negative coverage was undermining the effort.

The Archdiocese of Mexico says unidentified gunmen set upon a truck driven by the group

Nashville Predators defenceman P.K. Subban says he will not join athletes who kneel or otherwise protest during the U.S. national anthem. Yahoo Sports first reported Subban's comments, which were confirmed by the team in an email to The Canadian Press.

Suzanne Legault said the measures fail to deliver on Liberal election promises. 'If passed, it would result in a regression of existing rights'

E-Pirate, a multi-year investigation, has uncovered alleged money laundering and underground banking networks with links to China and B.C.

"I am sharing this to warn you to research who you get your procedures by as well as how the procedure should be properly done."

Federal deportation officers swarmed sanctuary cities this week, netting nearly 500 immigrants in a series of targeted operations designed to go after people that counties and cities were shielding through their noncooperation policies.

Failed asylum seeker Eric X, 32, from Ghana, today called the 23-year-old woman who he allegedly raped in a nature reserve near Bonn, west Germany in April, a 'prostitute'.

Alberta has a growing number of doctors at a cost that is increasing at a pace larger than inflation. The average gross salary of a physician in Alberta is the highest in the country.

BlackBerry Ltd. reported a profit in its latest quarter compared with a loss a year ago as it saw its software and service revenue hit a record high.

Internet streaming service Netflix will spend at least half a billion dollars over the next five years to fund Canadian productions, CBC News has learned.

A rock climber fell approximately 75 metres to his death after an attempt to climb Crown Mountain went awry. The survivor was rescued after suffering 3rd-degree burns when he tried to grab the rope they were joined with to stop the fall.

A year after Halifax decided to consider naming a street after Sidney Crosby, the hockey superstar suddenly finds himself embroiled in an ugly political mess that has some residents openly musing about rescinding the offer.

An Alberta town is teaming up with academic researchers and the private sector to install what may be Canada's first geothermal heating system in its downtown core.

One person was killed Wednesday and another injured in a rock fall on the granite face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, an official said.

Officials in northeast Mexico said a light rain was accompanied by small fish that fell from the sky Tuesday.

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto says he's skipping the Pittsburgh Penguins' Oct. 10 White House visit because of recent tweets by President Donald Trump.

O.J. Simpson could be released on parole as soon as Monday in Las Vegas under a plan being finalized by Nevada officials, a prison spokeswoman said Wednesday.

NASA has signed a joint statement with its Russian counterpart to collaborate on a future spaceport orbiting the moon called Deep Space Gateway.

What will it take for another county to break the stranglehold Canada and the United States have on international women's hockey? China thinks it knows.

Pop star Miley Cyrus is once again weighing in on a controversial environmental issue in B.C. by adding her voice to a new campaign that's calling for the end to all grizzly bear hunting in B.C.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service faces a deadline this week to decide whether the iconic Pacific walrus will join the polar bear on the threatened species list.

Julia Cecchetto has seen the role of women in policing change throughout her 27-year career. Now she's becoming the province's first female police chief.

The Michigan Legislative Black Caucus and civil rights groups on Wednesday called for the resignation or firing of the head of the State Police for sharing a Facebook post calling NFL players who protest during the national anthem "anti-American degenerat

The federal Liberals are working on an apology for the Canadian government's 1939 decision to turn away a boat of German Jews seeking asylum in Canada, The Canadian Press has learned.

B.o.B may be about to blow the lid off the "round-Earth conspiracy".

Marias top sustained winds are near 75 mph, with higher gusts as it lingers off the coast of North Carolina

A charity that runs a Vancouver-area mosque has been penalized by federal regulators after an audit found personal spending by its former president and alleged ties to a Qatar organization accused of supporting terrorism.

The footage shot off the coast of Libya shows a vessel full of migrants being ushered to a ship chartered by British charity Save the Children, according to an Italian television network

Researchers report chemical evidence of organisms that lived 3.95 billion years ago, but scepticism abounds.

The way three inukshuks displayed outside Toronto's Pearson International Airport have been reassembled has angered some Inuit.

A rare military medal awarded to a Saskatchewan soldier was auctioned in England on Wednesday, and sold for more than half a million dollars.

An Alberta town is planning to pull a different kind of energy from the abandoned oil and gas wells that ring its outskirts.

The City of Edmonton should "freeze" the photo radar program and re-evaluate its use, says Ward 4 council candidate Tricia Velthuizen.

Canada is a safe haven for internet pirates, Bell Canada says. The telecom giant wants the federal government to fight back by blocking Canadians' access to piracy websites and stiffening the penalties for violations.

After what seems like the first shot of a trade war, the first casualty of the U.S. Commerce Department's ruling against Bombardier could be the Canadian military's purchase of Super Hornet jet fighters.

New IP rules: Patents can be reviewed, "unless you pay off some Indian tribe."

It's not uncommon to hear the howl of a lone wolf out in the wilderness surrounding Thompson, but it's not every day you hear thousands of people trying to imitate that sound all at once.

Migrants risk arrest and an uncertain future for a chance to slip into Canada as they continue to cross illegally into Canada. The Canadian government can't seem to plug the breach of the border along a well-trodden route from New York State into Quebec.

A Winnipeg woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for a pair of violent attacks, one of which left a hotel worker permanently disfigured.

Regina city council has changed its policy on where religious facilities can be built, allowing the Muslim community to establish a new mosque in an industrial area.

Police have laid more than 100 charges after a robbery in which the residents of a Parkridge home were threatened by a trio of suspects who stole guns and fled in a taxi.

Someone set free a pair of pet fish about four years ago. Now, the infested water glimmers gold with thousands of Asian goldfish. The City of St. Albert is battling the invasive species of goldfish by pumping chemicals into two infested stormwater ponds.

Grizzly bear was spotted Monday by a cyclist and a jogger in the area. Griffith Woods Park is closed to the public as Fish and Wildlife attempt to trap and relocate the bear.

The huge forest fire in Fort McMurray last year caused air pollution levels to spike as far away as the New England states more than four thousand kilometres on the other side of the continent.

Why Canadian whale rescuers say they're drowning in bureaucracy over a new government policy. The death of a New Brunswick fisherman killed during a whale rescue has led to a complete ban on freeing the endangered right whale.

Researchers with the federal government and the New England Aquarium have developed a new model they said will provide better estimates about the North Atlantic right whale population, and the news isn't good.

The captain of a Canadian warship delivering aid to the hurricane-battered island of Dominica describes 'near total devastation' after visiting the capital Roseau and surveying the storm damage from a Sea King helicopter.

Saudi Arabia announces that women will be allowed to drive for the first time in the ultra-conservative kingdom. Women's rights activists since the 1990s have been pushing for the right to drive.

Education on transgender athletes is mandatory for all of Ontario's minor hockey coaches, trainers and managers this season, the latest step in a series of changes stemming from a human rights complaint filed by a transgender teen in 2013.

Those with incomes at $100,000 and above represented 8.4% of all filers and paid 51.8% of all federal income tax but apparently we don't pay our fair share!

The City of Calgary is fighting to ensure an independent investigator's report on misconduct by city councillors remains a secret. The city paid a lawyer $76,000 to investigate whistleblower complaints against council members.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has pressed the Trudeau government to restart a program to supply the Ukrainian military with satellite images to monitor Russian and separatist rebel troop movements.

A 32-year-old Alberta man has been charged with drug trafficking and manslaughter in connection with an overdose death last fall in an Edson hotel room.

Most children and teens shouldn't consume sports and energy drinks and the products should no longer be marketed to them, the Canadian Paediatric Society says.

Controversial new rules proposed by Transport Canada, which would put restraints on pilot flying time, are being called "absurd" and "stupid" by some in the industry in the North.

The first frantic callers to reach the RCMP were clear: something had crashed in the waters off Shag Harbour, N.S. But a series of searches turned up nothing. No wreckage. No bodies. No clues as to what really happened that night 50 years ago.

It started as a cleanup of the Thompson River. Now, it's celebrated in over 60 countries across the world.

Will Woods is a conflicted man. On the one hand, the tour operator feels compelled to include Gastown's iconic steam clock as part of the daily walking tours he offers. But then comes the part when he has to clarify that the clock was actually built in 19

Ben Baker was walking his dog along Oak Bay's Rattenbury Beach at low tide when he stumbled on the shimmering, purple fish. It turned out to be a massive King-of-the-Salmon fish, measuring about two metres in length. The current record for such a ribbonfi

Many people with hyphenated names attempting to renew a B.C. driver's licence have been told the surname they've used for years isn't legal.

An officer caught the distracted driver at 10th Avenue and Sixth Street on Monday just after 8 a.m. The 51-year-old woman was fined $368 for using an electronic device.

Researchers say a young member of an endangered killer whale population living off British Columbia's coast has died. Researchers with the centre say the Chinook salmon the orcas eat have been in short supply this year.

Aaron Judge has broken Mark McGwire's major league record for home runs by a rookie, going deep twice on Monday to raise his total to 50.

While their achievements in uniform can be found on their service records, the military medals that mark the deeds of Canada's men and women sometimes get lost as the decades roll one over the other. One Canadian, however, has dedicated himself to finding

Stevie Wonder, Kumail Nanjiani and LeBron James are just some of the high-profile figures speaking up in the developing sports feud with Donald Trump.

LeBron James is not backing down on his comments about President Donald Trump, and countless other players and coaches in the NBA made it clear at media days around the league Monday that they are equally fed up with what could perhaps be described as a p

North Korea's foreign minister says U.S. President Donald Trump has declared war on North Korea, and that Pyongyang reserves the right to shoot down U.S. bomber planes even if they are not in the country's airspace.

The province is collecting feedback on several topics, including retail pot sales and puffing in public.

The UN human rights agency says it has documented arbitrary arrests and torture in the region.

Jolts to vagus nerve show potential to help patients with brain injuries, researchers say.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is urging Canadian small- and medium-sized businesses to look beyond Canada's borders and explore the US$5 trillion retail opportunity in China.

An orphaned baby badger is learning how to survive in the wild with the help of "costumed caregivers" at a rescue facility west of Edmonton.

Samsung's artificial intelligence (AI) lab in University of Montreal will focus on developing core algorithms for use in robotics, autonomous driving, translation, and voice and visual recognition.

Torontonians can expect summer-like weather to continue for the first part of the work week.

After slightly slowing for the past 15 years, global warming is once again rising more quickly due to a decade-long weather pattern that warms and cools the Pacific, Britain's meteorological office said Monday.

Did warming projections just get blown up? No. No they did not.

Should the nuclear crisis between the United States and North Korea escalate beyond hurling test missiles and insults like "madman" and "dotard," the list of possible effects is a long and frightening one, according to experts sharing some of the ramifica

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that an asteroid discovered in 2006 is actually two and that it acts more like a comet.

A masked gunman entered a church in Tennessee on Sunday and opened fire, killing at least one person and injuring others before apparently shooting himself in the head, an official said.

Ontario formally signed an agreement Friday to link its cap-and-trade system with Quebec and California's joint market on Jan. 1, 2018.

Sparring with celebrities and Al Gore over global warming may not be what Roy Spencer had in mind when he earned his Ph.D., but it's certainly become a bustling sideline for the University of Alabama in Huntsville climatologist.

A dam has failed and caused "extremely dangerous" flooding in hurricane-hit Puerto Rico.

A Nashua man is facing accusations that he had inappropriate contact with several young girls.

A University of New Hampshire sorority is facing backlash after some of its white members were filmed shouting the n-word as they sang along to a Kanye West song.

The world's leading "ecolabel" is set to once again certify as sustainable the Gulf of St. Lawrence snow crab fishery, even though North Atlantic right whales are being killed by fishing gear.

A rare shot of a Canadian lynx, a uniquely terrifying glimpse of a raven and an awe-inspiring portrait of the International Space Station shooting through the Alberta night sky

An international group of cryptography experts has forced the U.S. National Security Agency to back down over two data encryption techniques it wanted set as global industry standards, reflecting deep mistrust among close U.S. allies. In interviews and

Back in 2014, the European Commission paid the Dutch consulting firm Ecorys 360,000 euros (about $428,000) to research the effect piracy had on sales of copyrighted content. The final report was finished in May 2015, but for some reason it was never publi

CALGARY -- A new technology that transforms heavy crude oil into pill-sized pellets could cure the oilsands industry's transportation headaches, according to University of Calgary professor Ian Gates.

The United States "strongly opposes" the planned independence referendum by Iraqi Kurds and urges Iraqi Kurdish leaders to engage in negotiations with the Baghdad government instead, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.

Describing Canada as a "work in progress," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tells the UN about the country's failures and mistakes in its historical relationship with Indigenous people and his hope to right the wrongs of the past.

A Massachusetts man accused of participating in a plot to behead conservative blogger Pamela Geller became consumed by Islamic State group propaganda because he was overweight, lonely and desperate for an escape from his bleak life, his defense attorney s

A big Canadian player has quietly picked up his chips and is heading for the exit amid the tumult over the Trudeau government's controversial tax proposals.

An online petition asking the UN to recognize an island of floating garbage as the planet's 196th country is gaining momentum, with the aim of highlighting the growing epidemic of plastic trash in the planet's oceans.

The well-preserved wreck of a First World War German submarine, possibly still containing the remains of its 23 crew members, has been found off the Belgian coast.

A man is facing more than 300 weapons-related charges after firefighters responding to a carbon monoxide alarm at a home in a community east of Toronto found something suspicious.

The fate of one of the world's largest living animals depends on one of the smallest. Scientists are studying a northward shift of the North Atlantic right whales and their speck-sized prey that could push the whales closer to extinction.

An expensive eight minutes. A distracted driver in Vancouver accumulated not one, but two $368 tickets for using an electronic device while driving on Wednesday.

The Republican National Committee spent more than $230,000 in August to cover some of President Donald Trump's legal fees associated with the federal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, an RNC official told CNN on Tuesday.

Canadian companies have much greater access to one of the world's largest markets starting Thursday, as a major trade deal between Canada and the European Union enters into force.

Oklahoma City police officers who opened fire on a man in front of his home as he approached them holding a metal pipe didn't hear witnesses yelling that he was deaf, a department official said Wednesday.

North Korea's foreign minister has described as "the sound of a dog barking" U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to destroy his country.