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Authorities in Australia have determined that 19-year-old Canadian tourist Piper James of Campbell River, B.C., who died in January drowned after sustaining injuries from a dingo attack.

Billy Collett, Park Manager at the Australian Reptile Park, tells The National about the moment he jumped into a river to save a crocodile more than 2,000 km from its habitat in Newcastle, Australia.

Scientists who study sleep are warning B.C.'s decision to adopt permanent daylight time will disrupt sleep patterns and have a negative effect on overall health, especially for children, for whom adequate sleep is critical for brain development.

Residents around B.C. reported hearing a loud boom and seeing a bright flash of light in the sky Tuesday evening. Experts say it was it was a meteor entering earth's atmosphere.

"Nutritional stress does play a role. It's just that it doesn't appear to be the role that we thought it was, just driving bears en masse desperately into communities," said Douglas Clark, a professor in the University of Saskatchewan's School of ...

The Alaska Board of Fisheries has announced a reduction in fishing opportunity for chum salmon by 30 per cent in southwest Alaska. Alaskan Natives, facing increasing food insecurity from a lack of salmon in the Yukon River for years, say it's a good ...

Moongazers across Canada and abroad got treated to a full lunar eclipse early Tuesday.

MNAs at Quebec's National Assembly have voted in favour of Bill 496, which recognizes the white admiral as one of the province's symbols. Native to Quebec, the butterfly could become its first insect emblem following a decades-long campaign.

New Canadian-led research into northern resident killer whales suggests even when food is plentiful, orca moms struggle to regain body fat when they have more living offspring.