Adventure Smart says search and rescue incidents increased 35 per cent last week, compared to the same time last year — and during the COVID-19 pandemic, SAR teams have to do extra work for each call.

An evacuation order and alert have been issued for eight properties near Quesnel, British Columbia, due to risk of a landslide from flooding.

Vancouver police officers have seized an eight-foot boa constrictor and multiple weapons from a tent at the Oppenheimer park encampment in Vancouver.

Tennis courts in Vancouver, along with several other Metro Vancouver municipalities, will be open this weekend as municipalities across Metro Vancouver lift restrictions put in place in March due to the COVID-19 crisis. There are rules for getting out to play, however.

There's no question that COVID-19 has uprooted the lives of people across Metro Vancouver and around the world. Data can be one way to show how, exactly, the pandemic has changed the way we move and operate in our daily lives.  

A B.C. fentanyl trafficker with a history of ignoring court orders is seeking “exceptional parole” because of COVID-19, despite the fact he’s only one year into an eight-year sentence.

There's a wonderfully quirky — and little known — information archive in downtown Winnipeg that predates Google and probably has more hidden secrets than the search engine giant.

Twenty-five years after meeting Johnny Cash, a Newfoundland musician is trying to track down a photo of the pair.

Sugar gliders — cute little marsupials from Australia and Indonesia — are an up-and-coming exotic pet in Atlantic Canada. But are they as sweet as they look?

A man from Vermilion Bay, Ont., caught and released a fish that he says could have challenged a 70-year-old record for walleye last weekend.

It turns out a small black box with a dangling red wire and little blue light investigated by Windsor's bomb squad Tuesday isn't actually dangerous — at least to the living.

As a child, Fay Richardson wanted to dance, with the grace and movement of ballet captivating her. Now, at 79-years-old, she's doing just that.

A New Zealand mail carrier made it her mission to deliver a package that was vaguely addressed to "Phil and Kay," located "opposite Cust pub or thereabouts."

A team of Canadian balloon twisters earned five awards at the World Balloon Convention in California this month for their Mickey and Minnie Mouse as Romeo and Juliet design.

When Antje Springman spotted something huddled outside her home, she thought it was one of her chickens. It turned out to be a Great Cormorant.

Five members of Calgary city council use a name in their political life that doesn't always line up with their birth certificate.

Jason Janes didn't want a BBQ brush bristle stuck in his throat, so he came up with his own homegrown scraper that has led to a business on the verge of booming.

UFC 249 will proceed as planned Saturday night despite Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza being ruled out Friday following a positive test for the coronavirus. He was scheduled to oppose Uriah Hall in Jacksonville, Fla.

This crisis is exposing the savagery of American democracy.

Another black man falsely assumed to be a criminal is dead.

OM partner finds young men on the street and offers them jobs and a place to study the Bible.

This summer nearly 1,000 Roma children in Roma villages throughout Central and Eastern Europe heard the Gospel.

OM Hungary works alongside partner organisations to bring comfort and Jesus’ love to refugees in Budapest.

Friends Derek and Josiah, who grew up in OM, talk about their most recent adventure: one year producing videos in the Middle East and North Africa.

After 10 years in North Africa, an OM worker sees a change in the hearts of neighbours and friends.

Their desire to help leads a Love Moldova outreach team to a woman whose loss of her toes leads to the salvation of her soul.

A woman found not criminally responsible for fatally stabbing a stranger in the heart at the makeup counter of a Toronto drugstore five years ago could ultimately be allowed to live in the community if the mental health facility where she is staying decides she can, the Ontario Review Board says.

A sports writer covering the strange return of South Korea's baseball season says fans should brace for similarly odd experience in Toronto, if and when the 2020 season begins.

Despite sharp differences in the impact of COVID-19 in different parts of Ontario, the Ford government is rejecting a region-by-region approach to loosening emergency restrictions.

Some provinces are moving to allow people to double their so-called COVID-19 social bubbles. Chris Glover looks at why that's not yet happening in Ontario.

Karla Bell was outside an Orangeville hospital waiting to start her nursing shift when she heard a cry for help from a car in the parking lot. She ran up to find a woman in labour in the passenger seat. Natalie Kalata tells us the incredible story of how this baby was born.

Toronto officials reported 180 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, a figure that represents a dip when compared to the more than 200 cases announced daily this week. 

Approximately one out of every seven Ontarians who were working before the coronavirus pandemic hit the province have now lost their jobs, according to Statistics Canada's latest national labour survey.

Living on a 10-acre plot of land 100 kilometres outside Toronto, David Stevens thought he and his family were well prepared to ride out the COVID-19 quarantine. But after a call from his mother, he learned that even the best laid plans can go wrong.

Poor visibility from winter-like weather has put a halt on the Snowbirds aerobatics team's plans to fly over southern Ontario on Saturday.

Ontario reported its lowest new COVID-19 case count of the week on Saturday with 346 new confirmed cases of the virus. Meanwhile, the government has issued an emergency order allowing school board employees to be voluntarily redeployed to hospitals, long-term care homes, retirement homes and women's shelters.

The province's networks of labs processed 15,179 tests in the last 24 hours, more than any of the three days previous but still short of the 16,000 tests per day target set back in April.

With proms cancelled across Canada, an online resource for kids called the Student Life Network has organized a national virtual prom.

As automakers look to restart the industry, union representatives are looking to ensure safety is the number one priority for workers.

After several days in which fewer than 400 cases of COVID-19 were added to the provincial tally, Friday's report was up again, with 477 new cases reported.

Making a film when you can't leave home means being creative — with everything from the scenery to your cast. C.J. Bernauer talked to Windsor Morning host Tony Doucette about his new short horror film, called 'You're It.'

Madagascar is putting its self-proclaimed, plant-based "cure" for COVID-19 on sale and several countries in Africa have already put in orders for purchase, despite warnings from the World Health Organization that its efficacy is unproven.

Tommy Parkinson, a 97-year-old British army veteran, talks about his wartime experiences, including the end of World War II.

Late Thursday, Georgia father and son Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael were arrested in connection with the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man.

The White House says it is conducting contact tracing after the U.S. vice-president's press secretary, Katie Miller, tested positive for coronavirus.

Cardinal Robert Sarah, head of the Vatican's liturgy office, claims he never signed a petition claiming the coronavirus is an over-hyped "pretext" to deprive the faithful of Mass.

Britons stood in silence and Queen Elizabeth addressed the nation on Friday's 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, though the coronavirus dampened commemorations for the end of the Second World War on the continent.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest rose sharply in April, government data showed on Friday, as the coronavirus outbreak keeps many environmental enforcers out of the field and the country prepares to deploy troops to fight illegal logging.

A young fan of the Jurassic Park film franchise sporting a Tyrannosaurus Rex costume got to meet some of the cast and crew who have been filming the latest instalment of the franchise in his hometown of Merritt, B.C.

As truckers move vital supplies such as food, hand sanitizer and ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic, they're pleading with governments to allow more truck stops to reopen so they can get meals, showers and rest. Social media groups and individual businesses are doing their part to thank truckers.