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A severely corroded pipeline ruptured and spilled more than 300,000 gallons (1.1 million liters) of diesel fuel just outside New Orleans after the operator delayed needed repairs, according to federal records.

Farmers on Prince Edward Island say there's no justification for a suspension of exports of Island potatoes to the United States and it needs to be lifted now, but Canadian officials say the U.S. is demanding more information.

The rampant spread of the Omicron variant has stoked alarm across the border, where the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a fresh Level 4 "avoid travel" advisory for Canada, citing a "very high" level of COVID-19 in the country and urging anyone who must go to be fully vaccinated.

American companies are still importing teak from Myanmar despite sanctions imposed after the military seized power last year, a report based on trade data said on Tuesday, January 11, 2022.

Far from its summer breeding grounds in Canada, the snowy owl was first seen on Jan. 3, the day a winter storm dumped eight inches of snow on the city.

President Joe Biden's controversial plan to use protectionist tax incentives to promote U.S.-made electric vehicles, which threatens misery for the Canadian auto sector, is making for all kinds of strange bedfellows. 

The highest-ranking law enforcement official in the United States is vowing to leave no stone unturned in the ongoing investigation into the Capitol Hill riots a year ago.

The school in Napakiak is just 20 metres from the Kuskokwim River and it’s getting closer every year. Just two years ago, the buffer zone was 61 metres.

Dairy industry advocates and trade officials in the United States celebrated a rare win over Canada on on Tuesday, January 4, 2022, after a panel of arbitrators agreed that America's northern neighbour is denying U.S. producers their fair share of access to the Canadian market.

Pacific Gas & Electric power lines sparked last summer's Dixie Fire in Northern California that swept through five counties and burned more than 1,300 homes and other buildings, state fire officials said on Tuesday, January 4, 2022.

The winter grassland fire that blew up along Colorado’s Front Range was rare, experts say, but similar events will be more common in the coming years as climate change warms the planet — sucking the moisture out of plants — suburbs grow in fire-prone areas and people continue to spark destructive blazes.

Tens of thousands of residents were forced to evacuate their homes outside Denver as wildfires fueled by winds that gusted up to 105 mph (169 kph) engulfed parts of two cities and burned an estimated 580 homes, a hotel and a shopping center.

“Civil rights and privacy advocates have been sounding the alarm about fusion centres for years,” said Farhang Heydari, executive director of the Policing Project, in a statement. “But TITAN is one of the worst offenders.”

A federal judge has sided with local law enforcement in a case brought by Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrators alleging excessive use of force by police at a protest site in North Dakota in 2016.

U.S. officials announced approval on Tuesday, December 21, 2021, of two large-scale solar projects in California and moved to open up public lands in other Western states to potential solar power development, as part of the Biden administration’s effort to counter climate change by shifting from fossil fuels.