Paul Vieira covers Canada for The Wall Street Journal, and is based in Ottawa.

In January, the city of Portland, Ore., celebrated a significant milestone: one full year without any sewage discharges into the Willamette River. City dwellers can now safely paddle and even swim ...

A Winona man accused of shooting another man in an apartment building near Winona State University last year pleaded guilty Friday to a second-degree assault charge in the case. Cole Robert ...

Halifax's water utility says it needs to divert millions of cubic metres of wastewater into the Halifax harbour and Bedford ...

Pope Francis ‘deeply sorry’ for abuses carried out in residential schools Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Monday that her province was honoured to welcome the Pope in 2022, and that his ...

A year after he was indicted for manslaughter by a grand jury in Lincoln in connection to the fatal shooting of a man on Interstate 80, a former Seward County Sheriff's Office deputy has been ...

The dam, which will be located in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, could produce 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, according to an estimate provided by the Power ...

A similar warning has been issued for the Peace River emergency department, where people may have been exposed to measles on April 15 and 16. The government says all but 12 of Alberta's total cases ...

The Alberta government has announced the appointment of a new interim chief medical officer of health, days after the previous one's contract expired. Officials say Dr. Sunil Sookram is to serve in ...