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Aug 19, 2026
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading at an "unprecedented speed," according to the World Health Organization. Experts say armed conflict and a lack of vaccines or treatment are among several factors complicating response efforts.
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Aug 19, 2026
The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, explains how it's actually two opposing spirals that counteract each other and allow the tusk to grow straight.
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Aug 19, 2026
Viral social media posts and misinformation helped mobilize thousands of migrants toward Spain's Ceuta enclave, highlighting how online networks can exploit desperation — even as experts warn social media did not create the desire to migrate.
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Aug 19, 2026
Dorm room upgrades — and their reveals — are so popular online that there's a #DormTok hashtag where videos can get millions of views, some U.S. parents are willing to spend thousands of dollars to hire professional designers.
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Aug 19, 2026
Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says he won't hold a referendum until Donald Trump leaves office, a move one pollster called an attempt to ease voter anxiety ahead of the election campaign. Rival party leaders are already slamming the delay as an irresponsible, contradictory political pivot.
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Aug 18, 2026
Golfer Taylor Carter tells CBC News about the moment he aced the 16th hole at the Canadian Special Olympics Summer Games in Medicine Hat, Alta.
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Aug 18, 2026
Meta Platforms rejected accusations by U.S. states that it intentionally sought to addict children to its Facebook and Instagram platforms in pursuit of profit as a trial that could reshape some of the most popular apps on the planet got underway Tuesday.
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Aug 18, 2026
Residents in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., gathered for an emotional milestone this week as the site of February's mass shooting is torn down and returned to grass.
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Aug 18, 2026
Anthropic bought millions of physical books to train its AI chatbot Claude. Here are the facts about the books that were ‘destructively scanned.'
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Aug 18, 2026
Columbia House, the company that lured millions of customers into mail-order memberships with the promise of 12 CDs for a penny, said it was shutting down after 71 years. CBC News has contacted the company after the notice was removed from its website.
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Aug 18, 2026
Frank Beard, the drummer for the Texas boogie-rock trio ZZ Top who kept the tempo for the band's biggest hits like Sharp Dressed Man, Legs and Gimme All Your Lovin,' has died.
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Aug 18, 2026
The family of a toddler who fell to her death from a highrise apartment in North York in May is suing the building owners and its management for millions in damages.
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Aug 18, 2026
Further escalating its battle with the Trump administration, ABC on Tuesday took the rare step of suing the Federal Communications Commission on First Amendment grounds, saying the agency's demand for early review of broadcast licences posed an "existential threat" to its operations.
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Aug 18, 2026
Four years after she fought off Richard Mantha's brutal attack and ran for her life, Aimee Ert is speaking out — with her name attached — for the first time.
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Aug 18, 2026
Commercial pilots and flight attendants face higher odds of dying from radiation-linked cancers than hundreds of other professions, a landmark study suggests. Researchers point to high-altitude cosmic rays, raising calls for better awareness and tailored health screenings.
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Aug 18, 2026
Brayden Bushby, who was convicted of manslaughter in the 2017 death of Barbara Kentner in Thunder Bay, Ont., has been granted full parole with conditions. The decision was made by the Parole Board of Canada (PBC) on Thursday, according to documents provided to CBC News on Tuesday.
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Aug 18, 2026
Provincial police say they have found a third set of human remains at a property near Smiths Falls in eastern Ontario. They have identified the latest remains as Lawrence Bertrim, who was last seen in 2022.
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Aug 18, 2026
A teepee cover was stolen from Kawacatoose First Nation in 1926 and housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., for a century. It will now finally return to the original owner's descendants.
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Aug 18, 2026
The RCMP issued another "duty to warn" letter to a Sikh separatist, Inderjeet Singh Gosal, who replaced Hardeep Singh Nijjar as leader of the Khalistani referendum effort in Canada. The newest threat raises more questions about the Carney government's claim that threats from the Indian government in Canada have been neutralized.
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Aug 18, 2026
Brittany Barry is serving a six-year sentence for drunk driving causing the deaths of Laura Hannah, 53, and Jamie Hannah, 20, and injuring her own two children, who were in the vehicle with her.
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Aug 18, 2026
The Crown is appealing a rare post-verdict mistrial declared last month in Frank Stronach's sexual assault conviction.
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Aug 18, 2026
Juno-award winning musician Ashley MacIsaac has ended his defamation suit against Google over its AI overview falsely labelling him as a sex offender. He was originally seeking $1.5 million in damages, but filed a notice of discontinuance in July.
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Aug 18, 2026
Scientists observing clusters of stars congregated near the Milky Way's centre have discovered evidence that our galaxy swallowed a smaller galaxy roughly 11.8 billion years ago, when the universe was less than 15 per cent of its current age.
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Aug 18, 2026
Hayden Panettiere's ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko — the father of her only child — is speaking out about her sudden passing. The Ukrainian boxer shared a heartfelt statement following the actor's death on Sunday at 36.
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Aug 18, 2026
Hayden Panettiere's on-and-off boyfriend Brian Hickerson and his brother Zach Hickerson were at the South Carolina apartment where the actor died over the weekend, according to a police report released Tuesday.
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Aug 18, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday no talks were taking place with Iran and none were scheduled, and he insisted the Strait of Hormuz was open, contradicting an ?earlier Iranian assertion the critical waterway remained shut to shipping.
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Aug 18, 2026
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the U.S. has no planned talks with Iran, and none were scheduled, as Iran's top negotiator said the Strait of Hormuz will remain shut until the U.S. meets the conditions of ?an interim deal inked in June.
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Aug 18, 2026
The Canadian Real Estate Association says home sales in July were down compared with a year ago, but edged slightly higher month over month.
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Aug 18, 2026
Public libraries in Alberta have until the new year to comply with new restrictions around access to materials in their collection with a visual depiction of a sexual act, but with less than five months before the deadline, questions still remain over how the new regulations will be applied.
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Aug 18, 2026
Public libraries in Alberta have until the new year to comply with new restrictions around access to materials in their collection with a visual depiction of a sexual act, but with less than five months before the deadline, questions still remain over how the new regulations will be applied.
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Aug 18, 2026
A Russian missile attack killed 10 people on Tuesday in a village in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, Ukrainian authorities said.
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Aug 18, 2026
As part of the referendum this fall, Albertans will be asked to vote on whether Alberta should have more control over immigration, something that's typically under federal jurisdiction. So CBC News took a look at what control the province has already.
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Aug 18, 2026
A high school student carrying two pistols shot to death a fellow student before killing himself Tuesday in an attack in a southern Philippine high school campus that he livestreamed using a body-worn camera, police and other officials said. It was the second fatal school shooting in the country in just two months.
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Aug 18, 2026
A high-level cocaine trafficker, a nightclub owner working as a drug courier and a recently divorced father have pleaded guilty to various roles in a drug bust Winnipeg police once worried had been compromised by a corrupt officer.
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Aug 18, 2026
As Israeli airstrikes escalate in Southern Lebanon, emergency workers there are accusing the IDF of deliberately starting wildfires. We look at what's happening on the ground.
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Aug 18, 2026
Prince Edward Island has decided not to participate in a federal measure that would allow rural employers to hire more low-wage temporary foreign workers.
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Aug 18, 2026
The Parti Québécois will not hold a referendum as long as U.S. President Donald Trump remains in power, party leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon announced Tuesday morning.
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Aug 18, 2026
Following the discovery of a drone laden with explosives and a detonator at Germany's Leipzig airport, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov signaled Moscow's intent to step up retaliation against countries that are helping Ukraine.
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Aug 18, 2026
American entrepreneurs say sustained, 50 per cent tariffs would force them to make the choice they've been hoping to avoid for more than a year and a half: breaking away from longstanding, good-faith relationships with Canadian suppliers for the sake of their finances.
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Aug 18, 2026
As uncertainty swelled in recent months around the long-awaited opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, representatives from the privately-owned Ambassador Bridge up the Detroit River were "aggressively" pursuing trucking companies in an apparent bid to retain their business, according to an industry representative.
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Aug 18, 2026
For weeks this summer, a lead instructor at a Kawartha Lakes hockey camp was a man who recently pleaded guilty to charges of assaulting children. There is currently no Ontario legislation that requires summer camps to screen staff that work with children.
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Aug 18, 2026
Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador and the federal government are hailing the new Churchill Falls deal as a win-win-win.
The new agreement will have major consequences for Quebec, and could also have an impact on the upcoming provincial election.
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Aug 18, 2026
American entrepreneurs say sustained, 50 per cent tariffs would force them to make the choice they've been hoping to avoid for more than a year and a half: breaking away from longstanding, good-faith relationships with Canadian suppliers for the sake of their finances.
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Aug 18, 2026
It's been weeks since wildfire evacuees from Whitestand First Nation and Armstrong in northwestern Ontario have been home. The communities are awaiting word from the province of changes in evacuation orders. In the meantime, preparations are underway to ensure essential supplies and infrastructure, as well as mental health resources, are in place.
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Aug 17, 2026
Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema was re-elected for a second 5-year term, but the opposition leader put in an unexpectedly strong showing, capitalizing on public ?frustration with lingering hardships despite an economic turnaround.
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Aug 17, 2026
Stephanie Morris tells The National about the moment she had an extremely close encounter with a family of orcas that swam by just off Bella Bella beach on Fox Island, Wash.
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Aug 17, 2026
The Wilder Institute's Calgary Zoo is investigating the circumstances under which one-year-old grizzly bear Fitz escaped his enclosure before being found Sunday morning.
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Aug 17, 2026
FIFA confirmed on Monday that Chief Operating Officer Kevin Lamour has left the governing body, weeks after he publicly criticized President Gianni Infantino's plan to sell a stake in ?its tournament business, including the World Cup.
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Aug 17, 2026
Rachel Reid says when she heard five libraries in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley were set to permanently close their doors, she wanted to help as much as she could.
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Aug 17, 2026
An Alberta chief is calling for more respect from the provincial government after its Indigenous relations minister missed a marquee event marking the 150th anniversary of the signing of Treaty 6.
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Aug 17, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump has again threatened Oman as Iran says it is working with the Gulf Arab country on a plan to manage shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Fully reopening the waterway has been a key U.S. demand.
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Aug 17, 2026
The NBA is disputing claims made in an ESPN article about the league's investigation of Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer.
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Aug 17, 2026
Nick Reiner, who stands accused of killing his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, has been denied access to the $1.5-million US trust fund he was seeking to use to fund his legal defence. The 32-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two charges of murder.
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Aug 17, 2026
Nick Reiner, who stands accused of killing his parents Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, has been denied access to the $1.5-million US trust fund he was seeking to use to fund his legal defence. The 32-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two charges of murder.
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Aug 17, 2026
Nick Reiner, who stands accused of killing his parents Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, has been denied access to the $1.5-million US trust fund he was seeking to use to fund his legal defence. The 32-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two charges of murder.
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Aug 17, 2026
From 2021 to 2025, the N.W.T. Department of Environment and Climate Change (ECC) recorded 60 collisions with bison. So far in 2026 however, there has been only one.
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Aug 17, 2026
Search and rescue officials say they found a plane in the Kawartha Lakes region where a pilot believed to have flown in the area last week remains missing.
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Aug 17, 2026
Arden, 64, who is best known for ballads like Insensitive, Good Mother and Could I Be Your Girl, announced her engagement to Elva on Dec. 31, 2025. The couple initially met at a writer's retreat in Iceland.
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Aug 17, 2026
Meta has lost two trials concerning child safety on its platforms so far this year and settled a third case. The company now faces what could be its most consequential trial yet, in federal court beginning Tuesday.
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Aug 17, 2026
A former street gang leader accused of masterminding the 1996 drive-by shooting death of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas faces opening statements on Monday in a murder trial tied to a long-unsolved crime that became a seminal moment in rap history.
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Aug 17, 2026
A former street gang leader accused of masterminding the 1996 drive-by shooting death of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas faces opening statements on Monday in a murder trial tied to a long-unsolved crime that became a seminal moment in rap history.
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Aug 17, 2026
A former street gang leader accused of masterminding the 1996 drive-by shooting death of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas faces opening statements on Monday in a murder trial tied to a long-unsolved crime that became a seminal moment in rap history.
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Aug 17, 2026
One of Belgium's biggest-ever wildfires blazed out of control Monday even as cooler weather and rain eased conditions for firefighters, while in Greece a fire briefly flared up near the main airport on the outskirts of Athens.
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Aug 17, 2026
The increase comes after a slight dip in overall inflation in June.
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Aug 17, 2026
Cristiano Ronaldo says this Saudi Pro League season is likely to be the last of his professional career.
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Aug 17, 2026
Thousands of people were still waiting for aid on the Indonesian island of Flores on Monday, days after a powerful earthquake killed at least 68 people, injured more than 200 others and damaged hundreds of homes and other buildings.
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Aug 17, 2026
The mayor of Summerland, B.C., says that damage assessments have been completed as more of his community's residents return after being forced to flee due to the out-of-control Bald Range wildfire.
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Aug 17, 2026
Hayden Panettiere had a prolific career dating to 1996, and her credits included the voice of Dot in A Bug's Life, Remember the Titans and Scream VI. Her role as a cheerleader with superpowers in Heroes propelled her to fame, with the series revolving around the mantra "Save the cheerleader, save the world."
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Aug 17, 2026
Hayden Panettiere had a prolific career that started when she was a child, and her credits include the voice of Dot in A Bug's Life, Remember the Titans and Scream VI. Her role as a cheerleader with superpowers in the TV series Heroes propelled her to fame.
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Aug 17, 2026
Australian beef is on supermarket shelves across Saskatchewan now, and the prices are much lower than for Canadian beef.
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Aug 17, 2026
Demolition crews began work tearing down Tumbler Ridge Secondary School on Monday, about six months after a mass shooting. The province announced plans to replace the school 'as quickly as possible' in May, although a new location has yet to be announced.
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Aug 17, 2026
School District 59 says work to remove the exterior of Tumbler Ridge Secondary School begins Monday. Crews have spent the last several weeks moving out the school's contents using covered trucks ahead of its physical destruction.
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Aug 17, 2026
Not much is known about the song CIA — only that it was recorded onto a cassette tape from a Toronto radio broadcast in the mid-1980s. Online detectives using Reddit are searching for the band, and think there could be a connection to Ontario's Waterloo region.
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Aug 17, 2026
Nearly 200,000 Canadians have signed a petition calling on the federal government to expel Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada.
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Aug 17, 2026
A major energy announcement involving Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec is scheduled for Monday afternoon in St. John's.
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Aug 17, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney, N.L. Premier Tony Wakeham and Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette stood along the St. John's harbour and announced a new energy deal — not yet finalized — on Churchill Falls and other projects, hailing it as the largest clean energy investment in North American history.
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Aug 17, 2026
Caitlin Clark has been outsized since she entered the WNBA in 2024 — her fame, her talent, her ability to draw television viewers, her being targeted by opposing players, her reactions to foul calls, and her consistently being used as an avatar for others to express their politics.
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Aug 17, 2026
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit (TBDHU) is taking the owner of a seniors' apartment building to court "as a last resort", saying he failed to address dozens of health code violations, including complaints of bed bugs and overflowing garbage.
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Aug 17, 2026
While the Russian military attacks Ukraine's power infrastructure, Europe and the U.S. still depend on Russian nuclear fuel to power their electricity grids. Canadian-owned Westinghouse Electric is among the companies that receive low enriched uranium from Russia to fuel commercial nuclear reactors in the U.S., shipping data analyzed by the fifth estate shows.
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Aug 17, 2026
Court documents filed by Crown prosecutors say the alleged hit on a jail official that triggered the police corruption and organized crime case known as Project South was organized by suspects contracting out the job using aliases on an encrypted messaging platform.
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Aug 16, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea, saying it declined to help denuclearize Iran and citing his good relationship with North Korea's Kim Jong-un.
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Aug 16, 2026
One-year-old grizzly bear Fitz escaped his enclosure at the Calgary Zoo Sunday morning. The zoo says the bear was safely returned to his enclosure.
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Aug 16, 2026
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 2,325 people, government data showed on Sunday, surpassing the toll from the 2018-2020 outbreak to become the deadliest in the country's history. The D.R.C.'s public health institute said in its latest report that confirmed cases had risen to ?4,945.
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Aug 16, 2026
For the first time in 17 years, the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band has won the global title at the World Pipe Band Championships held in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Aug 16, 2026
"When we saw it, it looked really hurt, it almost looked dead," says Finn Holland. "But then we saw subtle movements."
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Aug 16, 2026
There have been some scary bear attacks this summer in Canada. Some have turned deadly. What's your wildlife encounter story?
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Aug 16, 2026
Teva Canada is recalling some of its Teva-Pregabalin 150 mg capsules after it said routine testing identified possible contamination with the drug sertraline.
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Aug 16, 2026
A passenger bus carrying Polish tourists on a highway in Hungary went off the road and into a ditch where it overturned, killing a dozen people and injuring at least 10 early Sunday, police said. The bus was travelling on eastbound lanes near Mezokeresztes around 140 kilometres east of Budapest.
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Aug 16, 2026
Hundreds of migrants who recently entered Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta staged a protest on a popular urban beach on Sunday, urging Spanish authorities to grant them asylum instead of sending them back to Morocco.
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Aug 16, 2026
Firefighters battled a massive wildfire that scorched a nature reserve in eastern Belgium and another on a Greek island near Athens, where two people were killed on Sunday as hot and dry conditions fuelled fires across parts of Europe.
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Aug 16, 2026
Tommy John, who won 288 games during a 26-year big league career and became the first pitcher to successfully return following groundbreaking elbow surgery that later was named after him, has died. He was 83.
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Aug 16, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed reports of grim conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier currently in the Middle East that has now been deployed at sea for more than 260 days.
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Aug 16, 2026
Corgis from the U.S. and eight countries across Europe donned colourful costumes, including a dress and dinosaur suit, as part of an international competition in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Aug 16, 2026
Poilievre is speaking to reporters in Vancouver as U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff deadline looms.
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Aug 16, 2026
Three panels from ?Polittico di San Gregorio altarpiece and a separate painting depicting the Virgin with Child were taken from the Museo Regionale di Messina in the 15th-century painter's hometown.
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Aug 16, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Tony Wakeham and Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette are meeting in St. John's on Monday for "an announcement regarding energy security and economic development."
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Aug 16, 2026
Thousands of people have been evacuated after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake hit eastern Indonesia, killing at least 53 people, blocking roads and causing landslides.
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Aug 16, 2026
Hurricane Lala is expected to gradually weaken after the eye of the storm passed the southern tip of Hawaii's Big Island without making landfall, but heavy rainfall could produce flooding and mudslides as tens of thousands of homes are without power.
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