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More than 40,000 Californians were ordered from their homes on Monday as another storm walloped the state, bringing flooding and mudslides. Thousands remain without power amid warnings of more foul weather to come.

As another powerful storm walloped California, a five-year-old boy was swept away by floodwaters Monday on the state's central coast and an entire seaside community that is home to Prince Harry, Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities was ordered to evacuate.

Parks Canada says starting this summer, personal vehicles will no longer be permitted at popular tourist destination Moraine Lake in Alberta. 

A Kamloops, B.C., buck with garden netting on his head is the latest in a list of Interior deer that have been inadvertently decorating themselves over the last few years.

The City of Hamilton has discovered even more sewage has been flowing directly into the Hamilton Harbour since 1996. The news was announced Monday, seven weeks after the city said it had discovered roughly 337 million litres of sewage had spilled into the harbourfront.

A major Toronto hospital network said its digital systems went down on Monday and it was working to investigate what was causing the outage.

Here's a look at the people executed by Iranian authorities in response to the uprising that has gripped the Islamic Republic since a young woman died in police custody in September.

Doctors who treated Damar Hamlin said the Bills safety was moved to a hospital in Buffalo on Monday, an uplifting sign of the remarkable progress he has made a week after going into cardiac arrest and having to be resuscitated on the field during a game in Cincinnati.

Doctors who treated Damar Hamlin said the Bills safety was moved to a hospital in Buffalo on Monday, an uplifting sign of the remarkable progress he has made a week after going into cardiac arrest and having to be resuscitated on the field during a game in Cincinnati.

B.C. has announced new supports to help hire and train more nurses and midwives licensed across the province and plans to smooth the path into the workforce for internationally trained nurses, in order to take pressure off the strained health-care system.

B.C. has announced new supports to help hire and train more nurses and midwives licensed across the province and plans to smooth the path into the workforce for internationally trained nurses, in order to take pressure off the strained health-care system.

A northeast Calgary daycare was closed last week following a provincial investigation that alleges kids at that facility had been "subject to physical punishment and emotional deprivation" by multiple primary staff.

Bell Canada is overhauling its charitable initiative that supports mental health, replacing a program that saw the company donate five cents every time Canadians texted or tweeted BellLetsTalk with a lump-sum donation of $10 million.

Bell Canada is overhauling its charitable initiative that supports mental health, replacing a program that saw the company donate five cents every time Canadians texted or tweeted BellLetsTalk with a lump-sum donation of $10 million.

Californians grappled with flooding and mudslides Monday as the latest in a series of powerful storms walloped the state, shuttering schools, toppling trees and leaving tens of thousands without power.

Environmental Defence Canada has served Ontario's Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing and the City of Hamilton with a notice of application for a judicial review after the province overruled city council's decision to not expand its urban boundary.

Beamsville artist Floyd Elzinga's latest project took him to Nepal, where he worked with a local organization to transform waste into art.

A herd of cows escaped their farm in July, prompting all kinds of efforts to recapture them. Four of them were brought in last December and now a local division of the farmers' union has picked up another 15.

For many Canadians, wool is wool. For fibre enthusiasts, qiviut is one of the best wools around — and a woman from the Beaufort Delta is spinning out yards of the stuff in Alberta.

For many Canadians, wool is wool. For fibre enthusiasts, qiviut is one of the best wools around — and a woman from the Beaufort Delta is spinning out yards of the stuff in Alberta.

When Ukraine opens play at the World University Winter Games against Team Canada on Thursday, it takes the ice against a nation that has helped the players realize their ambition to attend the multi-sport event in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Canada has signed off on the final contract to buy F-35 jet fighters to replace the air force’s aging CF-18s, Defence Minister Anita Anand revealed Monday.

The family of a 37-year-old woman who died after waiting more than six hours to see an emergency department doctor in Amherst, N.S., is demanding answers from the provincial government. They want her death to lead to change in the health-care system.

The first attempt to launch a satellite from western Europe appeared to have failed early on Tuesday when Virgin Orbit reported an "anomaly" that had prevented its rocket from reaching orbit.

The first attempt to launch a satellite from western Europe appeared to have failed early on Tuesday when Virgin Orbit reported an "anomaly" that had prevented its rocket from reaching orbit.

Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket was released from its carrier aircraft late on Monday, a key stage of Western Europe's first satellite launch that took off from the coastal town of Newquay in southwest England.

Virgin Orbit's "Cosmic Girl" took off from Newquay's spaceport in Cornwall for Western Europe's first satellite launch late on Monday evening.

Final preparations were being made on Monday for the first launch of orbital satellites into space from western Europe, when Virgin Orbit's mission will transform the English surfing hot spot of Newquay into the country's first spaceport.

A sleepy leadership contest ended quickly over the weekend, with Liberal cabinet minister Ranj Pillai taking over the helm of the Yukon Liberal Party by acclamation. Pillai, who ran unopposed, says he'll outline his plans as premier after he's sworn in later this month.

The North American Leaders' Summit has grown larger and more formal since the original get-together of the 'Three Amigos' then-U.S. president George W. Bush hosted in Texas in 2005. As the current leaders gather this week in Mexico City, the global threats these regional partners must confront have also grown.

Iran's judiciary has sentenced three more anti-government protesters to death on charges of 'waging war on God,' its Mizan news agency reported on Monday, defying growing international criticism over its fierce crackdown on demonstrators.

While some effects of climate change are pretty obvious — the heat dome of 2021, crippling droughts, major flood events and historic fire seasons — changes on Canada's ski hills have been a little more subtle.

Brazilian police deployed at a camp of supporters of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro in the capital on Monday, a day after rioters launched the worst attack on Brazil's state institutions since the country's return to democracy in the 1980s.

Brazil's justice minister says about 1,500 people are in custody, a day after supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed and ransacked the country's congress, supreme court and presidential palace.

A B.C. couple says they're in "disbelief" after a Supreme Court ruling banned their wedding venue from holding events like weddings, in response to a petition saying the venue's commercial activity violates a neighbourhood building scheme.

Adam Rich, the child actor with a pageboy mop-top haircut who charmed TV audiences as the youngest child on Eight is Enough, died Saturday. He was 54.

Getting on a plane to come to Fredericton felt “too good to be true” for Shadrach Igogo. He had been waiting months to flee the war in Ukraine with his wife, Faith Igogo, and their two young children, Ivan and Viktor. 

Getting on a plane to come to Fredericton felt “too good to be true” for Shadrach Igogo. He had been waiting months to flee the war in Ukraine with his wife, Faith Igogo, and their two young children, Ivan and Viktor. 

Truro's latest nuisance deer hunt saw hundreds of pounds of meat shared with people in need, and offered a learning opportunity for youth in the neighbouring Mi'kmaw community.

Truro's latest nuisance deer hunt saw hundreds of pounds of meat shared with people in need, and offered a learning opportunity for youth in the neighbouring Mi'kmaw community.

Data collected, and numbers crunched by the University of Saskatchewan's Centre for Hydrology are forming new and more reliable climate prediction models for flood, drought, and water supply forecasting. Nowadays they are based on physics instead of historic observations. 

On Saturday night, 14-year-old Seth Hyde was the colour commentator for the ECHL game between the Newfoundland Growlers and the Trois-Rivières Lions.

On Walpole Island First Nation in southwestern Ontario, few members speak their traditional Ojibway dialect. To help keep the language alive, they connected with U.S. YouTube creator Arieh Smith, who has helped bring it to the masses.

New cuts to the fees that local councils can levy against home builders could have a major impact on property taxes in parts of the GTA, a new survey by CBC News has found, with one municipality saying property taxes could more than double.

Lisa Pyne-Mercier says she’s spent the past two years fighting to bring her nine-year-old great-niece from South Africa to British Columbia — ever since the child was found struggling to survive near her mother's body on their rural South African property in early 2021.

New cuts to the fees that local councils can levy against home builders could have a major impact on property taxes in parts of the GTA, a new survey by CBC News has found, with one municipality saying property taxes could more than double.

Some of this year’s appointees to the Order of Canada include everyday folks who strive to make the world a little bit better.

Police officers from northwestern Ontario say they hope new training they've developed will improve the response of officers across Canada when survivors of sexual violence report crimes, including handling them with sensitivity.

Mohammed Tisir Otahbachi developed a severe skin condition after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. The 29-year-old says he's now ready to give up on Canada's health-care system and seek treatment abroad.

David Saint-Pierre made a historic discovery of prints from the 1900s, including those detailing the salvaging effort following the Empress of Ireland shipwreck.