The RCMP and BC Coroners Service are investigating the deaths of a skier and a snowboarder at separate resorts in eastern British Columbia on Friday. One incident happened shortly after noon and involved a snowboarder at the Whitewater Ski Resort near Nelson, according to RCMP. A passerby found the victim unresponsive in a tree well […]

An Alaska dentist who worked on a sedated patient while riding a hoverboard has been found guilty on dozens of charges related to health insurance fraud. Seth Lookhart, 34, was convicted on 46 counts related to “unlawful dental acts” on Friday, including several cases of needlessly sedating his patients and billing the cost to their […]

Dual citizens killed in the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet earlier this month near Tehran, Iran will be treated as Iranian citizens, the country’s foreign ministry announced on Monday. In a televised weekly news conference, Abbas Mousavi, a spokesman for Iran‘s foreign ministry, said the country considers dual nationals killed in the downing of […]

Four iconic Canadian rock bands will be taking the stage at the Big Four Roadhouse during the 2020 Calgary Stampede. Big Wreck, Headstones, Moist and The Tea Party are joining together for the Saints and Sinners Tour, which will be stopping in Calgary on Monday, July 6. “I’m not sure that there’s a single concert-goer […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – More than 80% of Australian business executives believe climate change will damage their companies, a survey published on Tuesday showed. Australia has for months been battling scores of fires across the country’s east coast that have killed 29 people and millions of animals, destroyed more than 2,500 homes and scorched an area […]

VALLETTA (Reuters) – Another Maltese minister has quit after a paper reported links between her policeman husband and the man suspected of masterminding a journalist’s murder, the government said on Monday. Corruption investigator Daphne Caruana Galizia was blown up by a car bomb in October 2017, prompting a lengthy inquiry that has caused political turmoil […]

A snowmobiler from Cavan Monaghan Township died following a collision on Saturday in South Algonquin Township, according to OPP. Around 11:45 a.m., Killaloe OPP say officers responded to a collision on Route B106E, an Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs trail, in the township about 180 kilometres north of Peterborough. OPP pronounced Brandon Corley, 44, of […]

James Dresnok was a US soldier with a tough upbringing who was positioned on the North Korea border of the DMZ, following the Korean War in the early Fifties – a conflict that risked the outbreak of World War 3. As a child, Dresnok’s parents divorced, leaving him in a foster home and, having missed out on most of school […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran said on Monday that it had not closed the “door to negotiations” in efforts to resolve a dispute over its nuclear agreement with world powers that has escalated steadily since the United States withdrew from the deal in 2018. Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said any further move by Tehran to […]

BBC Weather forecaster Carol Kirkwood said temperatures will remain on the cold side as Britons start the week with clearer skies in the south of England and Wales and widespread drizzle in Northern Ireland and Scotland. Ms Kirkwood warned patches of fog and mist will be persistent through Monday and Tuesday, causing potential travel disruption […]