Armed men storm Foraco’s water well site in Toumour village of Diffa region, killing six staff and one civil servant. Unidentified attackers have killed seven people in an attack on French drilling company Foraco’s water well site in southeastern Niger, according to a security and company source. The security source said Thursday’s attackers were believed […]

Toronto police say a woman is in life-threatening condition after she was struck in an alleged hit-and-run Wednesday evening. Police said the collision happened at around 8 p.m. at Kennedy and Danforth roads. A spokesperson for Toronto Paramedics told Global News the pedestrian, who is believed to be 25 years old, sustained “very serious” leg […]

Edmonton police shut the southbound lanes of Anthony Henday Drive between Callingwood Road and Lessard Road on Wednesday night as they investigated a deadly crash. Police told Global News the driver was killed when the pickup truck they were in was involved in a single-vehicle crash. No other injuries were reported. More to come…   […]

Two commercial vehicles were removed from the road and nearly three dozen violation tickets were written during a commercial traffic check near Revelstoke on Tuesday. According to Revelstoke RCMP, more than 130 commercial vehicles were examined by a coordinated multi-agency effort that included police officers from various agencies and members of the B.C. Commercial Vehicle […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Northern California authorities say they have cracked a 45-year-old murder case using the same publicly available DNA database investigators accessed to arrest alleged serial killer Joseph DeAngelo. The Santa Clara County sheriff’s department said Wednesday that officers arrested 74-year-old John Arthur Getreu on suspicion of killing 21-year-old Leslie Perlov in 1973. Perlov’s […]

Saskatchewan Polytechnic has entered into a partnership with White Rabbit VR to assess the scope of using virtual reality (VR) for existing courses. They will work together over the next two months to explore training opportunities for students in the construction and transportation schools. “Using virtual reality is a great way to immerse students in […]

A Nova Scotia teenager is facing charges after reports that teachers in a Cape Breton school were threatened and a police officer was injured with a pencil Wednesday morning. Cape Breton Regional Police say that their school liaison officer at the Breton Education Centre was assisting school staff with an unco-operative student when a student […]

If you’ve come down with it already, you know from experience — this season’s flu bug has been brutal for some. An emergency room doctor in Calgary is sounding the alarm that the flu season has hit hard and hit early — saying the sheer number of hospitalizations proof of how bad it is. Related […]

Municipalities in Greater Moncton are reviewing plastic bag usage — but they’re looking for your help. The Cities of Moncton and Dieppe, along with the Town of Riverview, have partnered with Eco360, the local waste management facility, to launch a survey on the topic. It features questions asking whether you would support a ban or how […]

RCMP are searching after a report that two people may have gone through the ice near Sagkeeng First Nation Tuesday. Powerview RCMP said they were told a snowmobile carrying two people went through the ice on the Winnipeg River at about 11:45 p.m. Police started searching immediately from the south shore of Fort Alexander First […]