Canada

Firefighters remain on- scene in Yorkville after a four-alarm fire tore through a building housing two upscale restaurants Thursday night.

B.C.’s avalanche forecasters have issued a special warning directed at recreational backcountry users.

Santa is in for a wild sleigh ride on Wednesday due to a wind warning that covers much of southern Ontario, including Toronto and the GTA.

Police say a suspect is in custody after a double-carjacking involved a baby in Surrey.

Police located Chrisma Joy Denny alive and well in Knoxville, Tennessee, early Sunday morning. Denny was found at 1 a.m. Atlantic time. Cape Breton Regional Police said she confirmed her identity and indicated her intent to return home.

RCMP in Northern Alberta have made an arrest in the serious assault of a six-year-old girl.

An earthquake with magnitude 4.3 occurred near Port Hardy, BC, Canada at 22:54:34.00 UTC on Dec 20, 2014.

Friends have identified Amaria Diljohn as the 14-year-old girl who was struck by a TTC bus and killed while trying to cross an intersection in Scarborough.

Travis Vader, the man previously charged with the murders of St. Albert couple Lyle and Marie McCann has been arrested again. In March, prosecutors asked for a stay of proceedings against Vader, 42, who was scheduled to go to trial for first-degree murder in the deaths of Lyle, 78, and Marie McCann, 77. A stay is typically requested when there …

Emma Czornobaj has been sentenced to 90 days in jail, to be served on weekends, for criminal negligence and dangerous driving causing the deaths of two people. She will also have to perform 240 hours of community service, and will be on probation for three years.

A man is in hospital after he was shot by police at a busy Scarborough shopping mall on Thursday afternoon. It happened outside a Wal-Mart store at the Agincourt Mall, at Sheppard Avenue and Kennedy Road, shortly before 5 p.m.