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Months after a Yukon court spared Trevor the dog from euthanization at the city pound, the Humane Society Yukon is still unable to find a suitable home for the troubled canine.

A suspended Cape Breton Regional Police officer has been sentenced to 18 months probation for peeping into the window of a former girlfriend's home.

RCMP in the Northwest Territories has accepted nearly all the findings of a federal police watchdog's report, which says a police officer in Inuvik, N.W.T. should not have used a Taser on a teenage girl in 2007.

Police in Oshawa, Ont., have re-arrested a man they took into custody less than two years ago and have charged him for a second time with the 1974 murder of a 22-year-old mother.

A 19-year-old Charlottetown woman pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana in a Summerside court Wednesday, admitting that 49.5 grams of pot police found under the front seat of her car and in her bra in September were hers.

A Saint John family is temporarily looking for a new home after roughly 30 litres of home-heating oil was accidentally pumped into their basement.

Randy Collins, a former Newfoundland and Labrador politician who pleaded guilty to fraud-related charges, has agreed to repay nearly $300,000 of the money he received in connection with a house of assembly spending scandal.

A woman in her 60s was killed by a snowplow early Friday morning in Quebec City.

Northumberland Ferries cancelled its crossings between Wood Islands, P.E.I., and Caribou, N.S., and Confederation Bridge is closed to some traffic, due to high winds Friday morning.

Representatives from 14 Canadian universities will try to attract Chinese doctoral students to their schools during a recruitment mission in Beijing starting Friday, competing with institutions from eight other countries.

Nova Scotia is losing the nurse practitioner at the centre of a bitter dispute between health officials and residents of Long Island.

A joint CBC News/Toronto Star investigation finds the Toronto Police Service dropped a special task force probe into theft allegations against a drug squad team despite potential evidence of wrongdoing.

School boards in Nova Scotia should keep records identifying the race of their students for an accurate representation of how black students are doing in the education system, says the lead author of a government report.

Greenpeace T-shirts have been banned from Parliament after the organization staged an illegal demonstration on the Hill this week.

The jury at a coroner's inquest into the deaths of three women in a van crash near Abbotsford, B.C., ruled the collision accidental as it released its findings on Thursday, while making 18 recommendations including more random inspections of vehicles used to transport farm workers.

Riot police had to intervene Thursday night to push back protesters at celebrations marking the arrival of the Olympic torch in Old Montreal.

Canada's ethics commissioner has sent letters to Tory MPs accused of using their party's logo on ceremonial cheques, asking for their responses to the allegations, CBC News has learned.

Police answering a 911 call about a home invasion in East Vancouver found no break-in suspects when they arrived but did find 107,000 ecstasy tablets, some imprinted with the Olympic rings.

Parliament began its six-week holiday recess Friday, with MPs scheduled to return to the House on Jan. 25.

The Alberta privacy commissioner's office has found the province's health board had reasonable security measures in place when a virus targeted a computer network in July, potentially affecting the personal health information of thousands of people.