Massive rains from powerful Hurricane Helene left people stranded, without shelter and awaiting rescue Saturday — as the cleanup began from the tempest that killed at least 64 people, caused widespread destruction across the U.S. southeast and left millions of customers without power. Helene blew ashore in Florida’s Big Bend region …

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Growing up along the banks of the Ninglick River in western Alaska, Ashley Tom would look out of her window after strong storms from the Bering Sea hit her village and notice something unsettling: the riverbank was creeping ever closer. It was in that home, in the village of Newtok, …

The trip was life changing for many of these Nisga’a. Like salmon, they felt an inner need to return to a specific creek, a specific home. Mansell is hopeful she’ll be able to live in her home community one day. She’s already started applying for jobs and looking for work …

SpaceX launched a rescue mission for two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station on Saturday, sending up a downsized crew to bring them home but not until next year. The capsule rocketed toward orbit to fetch the test pilots whose Boeing spacecraft returned to Earth empty earlier this month because …

Former foreign affairs minister Marc Garneau is criticizing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his office, saying that he was “never sure” if something conveyed to the Prime Minister’s Office “ever got to the prime minister’s ears.” In an interview on Rosemary Barton Live airing Sunday, he said he felt the PMO “acted …

The price of coffee has been skyrocketing on international commodities markets, and while consumers in Canada haven’t felt the grind yet, the pressure of climate change on the world’s coffee farms is setting the industry on edge, insiders and scientists said.  The current market price for Arabica beans, which make up around 70 per …

More than 700 Canadian lineworkers, including about 300 from Atlantic Canada, have been deployed to assist in restoring power in North and South Carolina in the wake of a major tropical storm. Jim Salmon, vice-president of Holland Power Services, a power-restoration company with Canadian offices in Maugerville, N.B., said crews …

While French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledges that he — like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — is facing sliding poll numbers and pressure from the political right, he says this is no time for national leaders to abandon their “principles.” In a wide-ranging interview with CBC News and Radio-Canada last week in Ottawa, before his …

Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and A-list Hollywood actor, has died. Kristofferson died at his home in Maui, Hawaii on Saturday, family spokesperson Ebie McFarland said in an email. He was 88. McFarland said Kristofferson died peacefully, …