Local News from North America

Count the Gurucharri family of Bradenton among the relieved masses who feared for New Orleans on Labor Day.

Scott Kazmir pitched six shutout innings, and the Tampa Bay Rays came back to life Thursday with a 7-5 victory against the visiting New York Yankees that snapped a two-game losing streak.

Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday.

Picket lines went up around the University of Victoria's student union building Thursday as student workers demanded a wage increase from their employer.

Gasoline-powered lawnmowers that are a big cause of summertime air pollution will have to be dramatically cleaner under rules issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Braden River at Lakewood Ranch

Two Alberta teens who admitted to killing a cat in a microwave oven were sentenced Thursday to one year probation and 100 hours of community service.

The chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations has questioned whether police needed to shoot a man on a northern reserve Tuesday night.

Braden River at Lakewood Ranch

Three cabinet ministers - Loyola Hearn, David Emerson and Monte Solberg - will not run in the next election, the Conservative Party of Canada announced Thursday afternoon.

Two managers of Sasktel, the provincial government's telecommunications corporation, have been arrested on suspicion of stealing and illegally selling satellite television signals.

RCMP have identified the man who died Wednesday in a workplace fatality at Canadian Natural's Horizon oilsands project 70 kilometers north of Fort McMurray.

Three cabinet ministers - Loyola Hearn, David Emerson and Monte Solberg - will not run in the next election, the Conservative Party of Canada announced Thursday afternoon.

RCMP have identified the man who died Wednesday in a workplace fatality at Canadian Natural's Horizon oilsands project 70 kilometers north of Fort McMurray.

The Ottawa Senators signed journeyman forward Brad Isbister to a one-year, two-way contract on Thursday.

A former federal government contract employee is suing the RCMP for arresting him and leading him, handcuffed, out of an Environment Canada building in Ottawa in May 2007.

Canadians are most likely to vote for the Conservatives in a federal election, and believe Stephen Harper and Jack Layton would make better prime ministers than Stéphane Dion, according to a new poll sponsored by CBC News.

As a ban on cellphones while driving appears increasingly likely on P.E.I., a legislative committee is discussing how extensive that ban might be.

There are 77,000 households in Atlantic Canada whose debts exceed their assets, a sign of the growing gap between the rich and poor, says a new report by GPI Atlantic.