Raccoons are common in the West End and, now that spring is here, they are more active — often with young ones to protect. In years past, Vancouver residents have been bitten, and cats have been targeted as well.

A new pair of legs means Robonaut is going mobile at the International Space Station. Now imagine base camps on the moon, Mars or beyond staffed by a team of robotic caretakers.

Deron Williams and Joe Johnson both scored 24 points as the Brooklyn Nets beat the Toronto Raptors 94-87 in the opening game of their NBA playoff series Saturday.

A woman simply asked to pet the 10-month-old French bulldog, picked it up, and walked out when the owner was busy at the till of a downtown Vancouver tattoo parlour Thursday.

An avalanche on Mount Everest on Friday killed at 13 Sherpa guides who were working ahead of their climbing groups. It is the worst disaster ever on the infamous mountain, and it emphasizes the risks Sherpas navigate each and every day while they work to support their families.

The families of the five young people killed this week in a stabbing in Calgary say they have come together in their healing.

Air Canada is apologizing after a video purporting to show a baggage handler dropping luggage from roughly six metres off the ground hit social media.

A 54-year-old woman from Trenton, Ont., has died after she was struck just outside The Ottawa Hospital's Civic campus as her father was trying to park the vehicle.

For some of the scientists and doctors who helped the world battle the 2003 SARS outbreak, the recent rapid rise in human infections in several Middle Eastern countries caused by the MERS virus is creating a sense of sharp unease.

One of two teens charged in the Rehtaeh Parsons child pornography case is now accused of threatening to kill the girl’s father, Glen Canning.

They look like fuzzy fingers, waving gently from the depths of the ocean floor but make no mistake — they're stone cold killers.

After almost two months without a sign of wreckage, the area in which a deep-sea vehicle is scouring a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean floor for the missing jetliner is getting smaller and smaller.

Lisa Charleyboy has given a lot of careful thought to her dating life, not just in the typical way that you would expect of a millennial. "I’m a First Nations woman, and the issues of dating and marriage are complex for me," says Charleyboy.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says you can tell the city is "booming" because of the number of construction cranes dotting the skyline, but economists say that's not necessarily a good measure.

Pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine on Saturday prepared to celebrate Orthodox Easter at barricades outside government offices seized in nearly a dozen cities, despite an international agreement to disarm and free the premises.