Andy Blatchford The Canadian Press ST-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, QUE.—Quebec’s once-in-a-century floods that have forced hundreds from their homes are transforming some regional hotels into two-and-a-half star displaced-person camps. For over a month...

Lesley Ciarula Taylor Staff Reporter When Zack Garden realized the devastation in Joplin, Missouri, was too much for the people to handle, he brought in the elephants. On the day the circus was supposed to come to town, the general manager of the ...

The Ushuaia makes her way around an iceberg in a narrow passage on the West Antarctic Peninsula. John Crump/For The Toronto Star John Crump Special to The Star In Antarctica, the dead are buried twice. On Deception Island, the graves of more than ...

HIGH RIVER, ALTA.—A southern Alberta town was living up to its name Friday as a state of emergency was declared due to flooding caused by heavy rain. More than 65 millimetres of precipitation caused the swollen Highwood River to overflow its banks...

Mason, a one-year-old terrier mix, was given up for dead after he was sucked out a garage duing a massive tornado in Birmingham, Ala. Phil Doster/BJC Animal Control Kenyon Wallace Toronto Star A fury, friendly canine from Birmingham, Ala., is leav...

Burned out trucks sit at the Ford dealership in Slave Lake after wildfires destroyed more than a third of the town. TODD KOROL/REUTERS If you are reading this in the comfort of your home, or the familiar bustle of a local coffee shop, chances are th...

An isolated farm is surrounded by Red River flood water in southern Manitoba. JOHN WOODS/THE CANADIAN PRESS By Antonia Zerbisias Feature Writer In the time of the Egyptian Pharaohs, the people worshipped Hapi, the Nile River god, who every year wo...

The mute swans at the bottom of the Don River have three eggs. But will they hatch? Biologists have been oiling mute swan eggs for years in the city to keep their numbers down. Catherine Porter/Toronto Star By Catherine Porter Columnist It’s bee...

Icebergs in the Antarctic Ocean are shrinking due to global warming. New research has found that melting icebergs are depositing iron into the sea water, spurring the growth of plankton that take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Kyodo/Courtesy of...

Rob McDonald, pictured with wife Leslie-Anne, is lucky to be alive after a snow machine mishap in January. VINCE TALOTTA/TORONTO STAR By Joe Fiorito City Columnist There is a postscript — a couple, actually — to the rescue of Rob McDonald in A...

Canadian soldiers re-enforce a soft spot in the dike along the Assiniboine River on May 15 in Poplar Point, Manitoba. Ryan Remiorz/THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG—The weather is co-operating with flood-fighting efforts in Manitoba. Dry, sunny weather ...

Runners are seen along Lakeshore Blvd. W during the Goodlife Fitness Toronto Marathon. CARLOS OSORIO/TORONTO STAR Dan Robson Staff Reporter In the drizzling rain and wind, thousands of runners wove through downtown streets for the 35th annual Toro...

Members of 2nd battalion Princess Patricia's Light Infantry help load sandbags onto helicopter slings to be transported to weak sections of the dike running along the Assiniboine River some 25km from Portage La Prairie, Man. Thursday, May 12, 2011. JO...

Christine Cleaver and other workers arrange sandbags as they try to protect a home southeast of Portage la Prairie, Man., on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. The province plans to break its dikes on the flooded Assiniboine River, swamping a large swath of farml...

Video: Quebec flooding The Canadian Forces are expected to be deployed in southeastern Quebec Thursday morning to help flood victims. ST-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, QUE. — More than 100 houses in a Richelieu River Valley town remained cut off Thursday a...

Cyclists who took part in the inaugural Bixi ride place their bikes in the loading docks. The electronic stations, located all around the downtown core, are solar-powered. RICK EGLINTON/TORONTO STAR Tess Kalinowski Transportation Reporter Denis Ag...

A new assessment of climate change in the Arctic shows the ice in the region is melting faster than previously thought and sharply raises projections of global sea level rise this century. JOHN MCCONNICO/AP STOCKHOLM — A new assessment of climate ...

Canadians are about to find out whether Stephen Harper’s magic bullet works. The Prime Minister has gambled $1.4 billion of taxpayers’ money on a high-cost, unproven technology he hopes will turn Canada into a clean energy producer. Carbon captu...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper shakes hands with supporters during a campaign event in Guelph. Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN PRESS Earlier this month, at a Conservative party campaign rally in Guelph, Joanna MacDonald, a fourth-year university student...

NDP incumbent Dennis Bevington Adrian Wyld/THE CANADIAN PRESS file photo Allan Woods and Richard J. Brennan Ottawa Bureau YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T.—Their hotels are 270 metres apart but their standing in public opinion polls remains considerably more ...

Carys Mills Staff Reporter Flurries replaced April showers on Sunday morning and there could be more snow throughout the day. “Any time around this transition period between winter and spring, especially into late April, it’s still possible to...

Jeanita Brown asseses the damage to her bedroom at her home in Raleigh, North Carolina, after a tornado swept through parts of the area on April 16. Travis Long/MCT RALEIGH, N.C.—Authorities say 10 people are confirmed dead after storms spawning t...

Powerful storms snapped power lines, uprooted trees and smashed cars across the south this week. Seven deaths were reported in Alabama Saturday, raising the storm's total death toll to at least sixteen. Alabama Governor Robert Bentley declared a...

A dozen young climate change activists expecting a discussion with White House staffers Friday instead got a meeting with President Obama himself.The surprise meeting came hours ahead of the April 15-18 Power Shift 2011 conference, which is slated to ...

TUSHKA, OKLAHOMA -- It's mind boggling, the force behind a tornado and what it can do in the matter of seconds. "We've got significant roof damage, our next door neighbor's fence panels came through our front door in our house," says Deborah Huddlesto...

(CBS) - Close-up video has just surfaced courtesy of TornadoVideos.net showing an extremely destructive tornado surfacing in Jackson, MS. The funnel cloud rips through power lines and transformers as the people filming it can be heard shouting. Ther...

Officials worked feverishly Friday to stay on top of some of the worst flood conditions that parts of the Prairies have seen in more than 150 years. Rising waters have already forced more than 700 people in Manitoba to head to higher ground. While s...

PULASKI - Pulaski County students are doing their best to cope with the recent tornadoes and they're getting help. The wall at Pulaski Middle is covered with well wishes from nearby Dublin Middle School. The principal says the schools may be rivals i...

Flood Season 2011 by Tom Robertson, Minnesota Public Radio April 13, 2011 LISTEN Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this audio onto your web page.Audio player code: <iframe title="minnesota_news_features_2011_04_13_osloflooding_20110413_64s_p...

BISMARCK, N.D. — Authorities have advised about 200 people who live near the Des Lacs River in northwest North Dakota to evacuate their homes because a dam might fail, though it did not appear early Wednesday that any had heeded the warning. ...