An underwater acrobat has been filmed dancing with man-eating sharks in a dangerous bid to protest worldwide culls and prove the killers are “gentle”. Conservationist Hannah Fraser, who calls herself the world’s most celebrated “mermaid”, was filmed patting and swimming among a shiver of Tiger sharks.

A new grant program will help municipalities better protect their residents, property, and infrastructure from the effects of floods or droughts. Municipalities, First Nations, and Metis Settlements province-wide may apply for funds from the Alberta Community Resilience Program for projects that protect critical municipal infrastructure from flooding and drought.

It’s the wedding photo seen ‘round the world. Michael Wolber and his new bride April stand on a deserted highway as a plume of smoke billows out behind them. It’s a day Wolber’s aunt, Juliana Wood, will never forget. She said the picture is like a scene from a movie.

Authorities are trying to identify a woman who robbed a South Florida bank all while talking on her cellphone. The robbery occurred June 4 at a TD Bank branch on Okeechobee Boulevard in West Palm Beach.

Wolves aren’t all the same, and some apparently have more differences than scientists once thought. They’ve found that British Columbia’s mainland wolves and coastal wolves are far more distinctive than previously believed.

Premier Dave Hancock and Mayor Naheed Nenshi have provided an update on flood recovery and mitigation efforts. It’s part of the feel-good tour of 2014 as officials try to reassure members of the public on the work taking place on short-term flood mitigation projects.

Canadians wants open and frank discussion about the issues surrounding death and dying. That was the message the Canadian Medical Association heard repeatedly during a series of public town hall meetings held across Canada and involving several hundred people. The results of this consultation, which also involved online and social media components, were released by the CMA in its report …

Opposition to childhood vaccination continues despite the long-debunked theory that vaccines can trigger autism, plus the very real evidence recently of what happens when kids aren’t immunized. Now there’s a new study that concludes a combination vaccine commonly used in Canada presents a slightly increased risk of febrile seizures in children.

The Sûreté du Québec is investigating the apparent murders of a woman and child, who’s bodies were found inside a car parked on the side of Route 132 near the town of Routhierville, in the lower St-Lawrence region.

Stingrays are normally docile animals. But one swimmer learned the hard way that even creatures that would rather take flight than fight can get angry and attack. On the Gold Coast of Australia, YouTube video has surfaced of a swimmer diving aggressively toward a rather large ray. The animal took off.

Great White Devoured by ‘Mystery Sea Monster’? Scientists have solved the mystery of the nine-foot (2.7 meters) great white shark eaten by a super predator, in Australia’s Southern Ocean. When researchers GPS-tagged a great white, they didn’t imagine what would happen two months later. The device was found on a beach, and its data revealed that the animal had suddenly …