Heavy downpours pounded parts of the central U.S. Gulf Coast on Friday, forcing the rescue of dozens of people stranded in homes by waist-high water and leaving one man dead.

British Columbia's budget bottom line has been refined as revenues improve, but expenses go even higher in the government's latest quarterly report.

The University of Lethbridge launched a new website that aims to connect Blackfoot people to historical Blackfoot items located in Europe by harnessing the power of technology.

Fifty years ago, ashtrays seemed to be on every table and desk. Athletes and even Fred Flintstone endorsed cigarettes in TV commercials. Smoke hung in the air in restaurants, offices and airplane cabins.

The Public Health Agency of Canada is now investigating 21 cases of E. coli: nine in British Columbia, nine in Alberta and one each in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec.

The BC Centre for Disease Control is issuing an E. coli warning after several people became sick from eating gouda cheese from Salmon Arm.

Here is the complete list of candidates running in for election in the Halifax Regional Municipality on Oct. 17.

Wall Street protesters scrubbed, mopped and picked up garbage at the corporate-owned park they have been occupying in an attempt to stave off a scheduled cleanup Friday that demonstrators suspect is a pretext to evict them.