Wildfire forces residents of remote Alberta hamlet to evacuate by boat and plane

Efforts to evacuate Fort Chipewyan, a northeastern Alberta community threatened by wildfire, are being hampered by the hamlet's isolated location. 

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who spent more than seven years in prison for her mother's murder, is speaking out after Ken Urker, her former fiancé and the father of her daughter, died yesterday.

One person is in life-threatening condition after an industrial fire broke out at the Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) Hussar gas plant east of Calgary Friday morning, EMS says.

LNG Canada will once again use Chinese steel for the "specialized fabrication capability" it says it requires for its $33-billion Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat, B.C.

LNG Canada will once again use Chinese steel for the "specialized fabrication capability" it says it requires for its $33-billion Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat, B.C.

Cameron Eckert, president of the Yukon Bird Club, wasted no time in deciding to make the five-hour drive from Whitehorse to Mayo to see the unusual visitor. The last time a black vulture was reported in the Yukon was in the 1980s, he said.

The Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak has recorded more than 4,000 deaths, authorities say, as they struggle to contain the spread of the virus.

Consecutive crop losses driven by climate change are exposing gaps in B.C.’s production insurance program, growers say.

CBC/Radio-Canada unveiled its broadcast schedule Friday for the upcoming Professional Women’s Hockey League season, which features more games on the network than ever before.

CBC/Radio-Canada unveiled its broadcast schedule Friday for the upcoming Professional Women’s Hockey League season, which features more games on the network than ever before.

Almog Italie and his family were on the final leg of their trip home following a vacation in Japan when they felt FlyDubai flight FZ1073 plummet. Italie was one of 174 people on board the plane earlier this week when one of the pilots stabbed the other in an attempt to crash the plane. The flight plunged 30,000 feet in under 30 seconds.

Niagara Falls Tourism has placed a full-page open letter in a Buffalo newspaper, inviting Americans to cross the bridge and celebrate with Canadians on Saturday, including witnessing Niagara Falls light up in the Bills' red, white and blue colours. The latest gesture in the face of the trade war comes after the NFL team played Canada's anthem at the recent home opener.

Political leaders in Alberta’s oilsands region say they hope the potential one million barrels of oil per day that could flow through a new West Coast oil pipeline will also bring jobs and economic spinoffs.

Manchester City has lodged a "comprehensive" appeal, the club confirmed Friday, following the publication of a report by an independent commission detailing large-scale financial rule-breaking by the Premier League giant.

About 400 schools in France are expected to remain closed on Friday after student protests over education-related grievances ‌turned violent in some places.

The Indian airline captain who helped thwartan apparent attempt to crash a FlyDubai flight described Friday how he fought for his life in the minutes after hisco-pilot stabbed him and the plane began a steep descent.

Alex Radu says he was bikepacking the Cabot Trail over the course of a week and that the 15-second encounter he had with a coyote doesn't define what was mostly a "peaceful experience" at the Cape Breton Highlands National Park.

Martin Marks has pleaded guilty to four dozen charges after being caught twice with copious amounts of fentanyl and cocaine.

A'ja Wilson made sure her basketball spoke for itself Thursday night. The four-time WNBA MVP, who had a verbal encounter with a Fever fan in Indiana two nights earlier, scored 36 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead the defending champion Las Vegas Aces to a 94-83 victory in the deciding Game 3 of the first round.

Montreal Canadiens fans wanting to see their team play at home this season will have to pay a premium for tickets, with average prices at the Bell Centre higher than anywhere else across the NHL.

Prolonged drought in B.C.'s Southern Interior has led to explosive wildfires that current modelling software struggles to predict. It's partly because the data that informs these computer models was collected at least 30 years ago, when extreme fire behaviour, driven by events like prolonged drought — a feature of climate change — was less common.

Several legal experts note there are some striking similarities between the alleged gang rape case unfolding at Cornell Universitythis week and last year's Hockey Canada sexual assault trial in London, Ont., which saw all five players acquitted.

A long-awaited temporary shelter village for people experiencing homelessness in Thunder Bay, Ont., is finally operational, with the first residents set to move in on Friday.

The account Rise of Alberta is anonymous and drives four times as much engagement as the next most popular account.

The UN World Food Program's cash-for-work program helps provide stable work and income for Palestinians in Gaza, who have with little to no other options.

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages younger than provincial regulations allow.

A Quebec train factory battered by years of layoffs is expanding as governments push to buy Canadian. Alstom's La Pocatière plant is hiring and scaling up for major domestic rail contracts, including a $4.7-billion VIA Rail project.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed a special prosecutor Thursday to oversee an investigation into a woman's allegations that she was gang raped at a Cornell University fraternity house, with the governor saying she had lost faith in the local district attorney's ability to handle the case.

Ted Hupé tells The National about the moment he watched his former Grade 6 student, Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk, launch into space on the Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station, in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

Oct. 1, 2026 | Carney puts a proposed West Coast pipeline on an approval fast track by designating it a project of national interest. A FlyDubai pilot who survived a mid-air attack is hailed as a hero. And CBC Marketplace uncovers risky e-bikes being sold in Canada.