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"They pulled the rug out from under us," said John Rimmer, mayor of Caroline, where the United Conservative government's move has stranded a solar project that would have contributed at least 15 per cent of the community's municipal budget.

Lightning strikes have sparked dozens of new wildfires in British Columbia, as thunderstorms brought mixed blessings to the province's battle against its worst fire season on record.

A new complaint sent to the FBI’s white-collar crime division and filed with U.S. financial regulators alleges Canadian oil company ReconAfrica has used environmental claims to mislead investors.

A new study based on breeding bird surveys found that grassland birds reacted even more negatively to corn and soybean fields than they did to land used for oil and gas development.

Recent pushback around the carbon tax and the clean fuel regulations from P.E.I. Premier Dennis King has marked a new era for the province. Don Desserud, a P.E.I. political analyst, breaks down the shift.

New documents suggest the Crown corporation behind the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is facing an uphill battle to finish the project on schedule in spite of mounting internal and external pressure to do so.

“From First Nations’ point of view, the situation in its entirety is corrupt,” Grand Chief Joel Abram of the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians said in a statement. “We will continue to support the RCMP in its considerations to conduct a full investigation into this matter.”

Members of the Northwest Territories legislature unanimously voted on Monday to delay an election scheduled for October because of wildfires as the region saw a significant victory in the battle against a blaze that caused tens of thousands of people to flee Yellowknife.

Russian intelligence services and police will help cybercriminals operate with "near impunity" against their targets — including Canadians — in coming months, a new federal report predicts.

Officials in British Columbia's Shuswap and Okanagan regions are shifting some of their attention from wildfire response to the challenges of recovery as flames abate and many evacuees begin returning home, although crews continue to fight out-of-control blazes.

Fire-weary Northwest Territories is preparing for tens of thousands of people to return home after a much-needed win in the battle against a blaze that was threatening Yellowknife.

What's the secret of a lush-looking lawn in Metro Vancouver, where watering is banned amid a brutal drought?

Publisher Springer Nature says the 2022 article is "not supported by available evidence" as its editors launch an investigation.

Environmentally concerned residents in an Ontario town are cheering a last-minute decision by the Doug Ford government to abandon development plans in a nearby part of the protected Greenbelt. 

Ontario’s auto sector has a chance to cash in on North America’s growing market for electric buses and electrifying the province’s school buses is a strong place to start, say Pembina Institute analysts.