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Pulitzer Prize-winning Texas author Larry McMurtry has died of heart failure at the age of 84.

Children's book author Beverly Cleary has died at age 104, publisher HarperCollins said on Friday. The author responded to a young reader's plea for realistic characters by bringing rare insight and humour to the lives of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins and the other children who populated her more than 40 books.

Free diving under ice into freezing lakes in the Rocky Mountains could sound scary to some, but an Alberta diver says the experience is a fantastic form of meditation.

U.S. President Joe Biden is including rivals Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China among the invitees to the first big climate talks of his administration.

The survivors of St. Anne’s Residential school are rejecting Canada's offer of an independent review of their abuse claims.

Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard will remain in jail after a judge on Friday dismissed his bail appeal.

Nurses are calling attention to anti-Black and other racism they face on a regular basis from some patients, and are calling for better support in the workplace from their colleagues and officials.

Procurement Minister Anita Anand says 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine on loan to Canada from the U.S. will arrive on Tuesday.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says his government didn't prepare a fallback plan on implementing a consumer carbon tax because they were hoping to win in the country's top court.

Starting Monday, travellers who fail to declare cannabis and cannabis products when crossing the border could face fines.

A Canadian coal-mining company faces the largest fine imposed under the Fisheries Act after pleading guilty to contaminating waterways in southeastern British Columbia.

The fine for polluting the Elk and Fording rivers in 2012 is the largest ever under the Fisheries Act, a federal prosecutor says.

A doctor was charged Friday with first-degree murder as part of a police investigation into multiple suspicious deaths at a hospital between Ottawa and Montreal.

A high-profile sexual assault case involving the Canadian military has come to an end following years of legal battles. Former warrant officer André Gagnon pleaded guilty today to assaulting former master corporal Stéphanie Raymond — a case that helped launch the public reckoning over sexual misconduct in the ranks now shaking the Armed Forces.

After a period of relative quiet, Canada's COVID-19 case count is again on the rise as virus variants take hold. The nation is expected to post a cumulative case count of roughly 1 million next week, according to new data released by the Public Health Agency of Canada.

The federal Liberal government is fighting a motion made by the Conservatives and backed by all the other parties to get cabinet ministers' staff to appear at any parliamentary committees.

Dominion Voting Systems, which was founded in Toronto, filed a $1.6 billion US defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Friday, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed the company had rigged the 2020 election.

New Brunswick has stepped up restrictions in part of the province in the face of rising variant cases, with the province's top doctor saying the goal is to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the Edmundston area "before it gets an even stronger grip than it has now."

Canada will collect data on the impact of siting a disproportionate number of polluting industries and landfills in areas inhabited by racial minority communities, federal lawmakers voted Wednesday.

Those pushing for better and more stringent climate policy should savour a big win. But they should also start getting ready for the next fight, says energy economist Andrew Leach.

Tech giant Facebook is beginning to ramp up for the next federal election with plans to protect its platform from being used to spread misinformation that could disrupt the election campaign.

Variants of the virus behind COVID-19 double the risk of someone being admitted to intensive care — and increase the risk of death by roughly 60 per cent — according to a new analysis of recent Ontario data from the province's science advisory table, multiple sources tell CBC News.

A judge has adjourned the murder trial of Greg Fertuck until this fall due to concerns over COVID-19 in Saskatchewan. Fertuck, who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife Sheree, was scheduled to have his trial begin on Monday at Saskatoon Court of Queen's Bench.

It’s been more than five years since Sheree Fertuck disappeared from a rural gravel pit — her workplace — in Saskatchewan. Police believe she was murdered by her estranged husband, though her body was never found. He's about to go on trial for first-degree murder.

Some businesses that sell swimming pools and other pool-related products in Ottawa say the COVID-19 pandemic has created unseen levels of demand, and they likely won't have the stock to meet it.

A Marketplace investigation into an online boot camp organized by an American anti-vaccination activist has uncovered some of the tactics COVID-19 conspiracists are using to influence those skeptical of public health messages around the pandemic.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says it is “absolutely essential” countries such as Canada repatriate Canadian women and children currently being held in Syrian prison camps.

Health officials don't recommend having different types of COVID-19 vaccines for your two shots, but doctors say a unique clinical trial in the United Kingdom could inform a more flexible rollout in Canada.

A Marketplace investigation into an online boot camp organized by an American anti-vaccination activist has uncovered some of the tactics COVID-19 conspiracists are using to influence those skeptical of public health messages around the pandemic.

Public health experts say the COVID-19 pandemic has overshadowed other epidemics that need attention. Testing for HIV and hepatitis C has plummeted in Saskatchewan, where blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections continue to spread at alarming rates.

A judge has adjourned the murder trial of Greg Fertuck until this fall due to concerns over COVID-19 in Saskatchewan. Fertuck, who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife Sheree, was scheduled to have his trial begin on Monday at Saskatoon Court of Queen's Bench.

New reports are emerging about the former Canadian ambassador to Israel's tenure, months after Radio-Canada/CBC revealed that a lawsuit launched by ex-ambassador Vivian Bercovici against the federal government had been settled.

Pizza consumption has surged during the pandemic and many Canadians are making the frozen variety their pie of choice.

Pizza consumption has surged during the pandemic, and Canadians are making the frozen variety their pie of choice.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how mycelium could be used to make sustainable building materials and why RBC ranks so high on the list of banks funding the fossil fuel industry.

Variants of the virus behind COVID-19 double the risk of someone being admitted to intensive care — and increase the risk of death by roughly 60 per cent — according to a new analysis of recent Ontario data from the province's science advisory table, multiple sources tell CBC News.

Variants of the virus behind COVID-19 double the risk of someone being admitted to intensive care — and increase the risk of death by roughly 60 per cent — according to a new analysis of recent Ontario data from the province's science advisory table, multiple sources tell CBC News.

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland held her first call with U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris on Thursday, a discussion that touched on migration from Central America, the impact of the COVID-19 recession and the continued detention of two Canadians in China.

Kristin McBride was driving along Highway 6 between Lumby and Vernon on the night of March 13 when a man in a white truck or SUV pulled up behind her and turned on a set of flashing red and blue lights installed in the vehicle's grill.

Okanagan Indian Band member Cory Brewer says the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by B.C. in 2019, gives him the right to sell cannabis outside of the band's reserve without a provincial licence.

The B.C. Supreme Court judge overseeing Meng Wanzhou’s extradition proceedings says it’s tough to know what to make of the refusal of a key RCMP witness to testify in the high-profile case.

Yukon health officials say two cases COVID-19 that are variants of concern have arrived in the territory. An exposure notice was issued for an Air North flight that left Vancouver on Sunday.

In a 6-3 decision, Canada's Supreme Court ruled the federal government's carbon pricing system is constitutional, in a blow to some provincial governments that had argued efforts to mitigate pollution should be handled at the provincial jurisdiction.

New Zealand's parliament has passed legislation giving mothers and their partners the right to paid leave following a miscarriage or still birth, becoming one of the few countries in the world to do so.