As Los Angeles continues to battle deadly and historically destructive wildfires, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has made what experts call “preposterous” and false claims that California could have avoided the disaster by allowing water from Canada to flow through the state. Trump, who has fixated on California’s water management issues before and has raised them…
A relaxing California getaway turned into a dramatic fight for survival for Winnipeg firefighter Romeo Petit and his partner, Melissa Elias. What started as a fun vacation quickly became a nightmare when the Eaton wildfire erupted near Pasadena, fueled by strong winds and consuming houses on its path. Petit and Elias were out for dinner…
After a weekend spent blocking the explosive growth of fires that destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 24 people in the Los Angeles area, firefighters got a slight break with calmer weather but cast a wary eye on a forecast for yet more wind. Should that happen, already burned homes and valleys could…
As interest in more environmentally-friendly burial options grows, one Ontario company is trying to help cemeteries across the county offer more affordable and greener alternatives. The Natural Burial Association told Global News in March that since 2018, they have seen the number of cemeteries offering natural burial options triple. Awake, a company formed in Oro…
The last time Lindsay Rupp saw her Los Angeles home, as flames from the devastating wildfires burning across the county quickly approached, her Brentwood neighbourhood looked like a war zone. The Canadian-born mother of two, who has lived in California for over 20 years, had returned Wednesday morning to grab “anything I saw that I…
Los Angeles may be about 2,500 kilometres from Calgary, but for some Albertans the wildfires that are devastating southern California are too close to home. Global News spoke to several Albertans living in the City of Angels. While the inferno bears similarities to the fire that ravaged the town of Jasper last summer, the ex-pat…
Firefighters battled to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area early Thursday that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their homes. Ferocious winds that drove the flames and led to chaotic evacuations have calmed somewhat and were not…
Twenty-three metres below the surface of Barkley Sound, a sea sponge named Belinda is telling researchers about changing ocean conditions. “Honestly, it was very opportunistic,” Dominica Harrison, one of the study’s authors told Global News. “They just turned on the cameras, and there Belinda was. Just hanging out.” 2:01 Timelapse of sea sponge ‘Belinda’ sneezing,…
A judge has granted the continuation of an injunction to the owner and developer of a St. Norbert forest, forbidding the defendants from trespassing on the property. Justice Sarah Inness made her decision Monday, but did not grant the plaintiff’s request to extend the injunction to a strip of city-owned land the developer used to…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Residents of a Vancouver neighbourhood are on the lookout for a cougar after two sightings in a month. The BC Conservation Officer Service says in a statement that the big cat was reported on Dec. 26 around Blenheim Street between 26th and 36th Avenues in the Dunbar…
