Environment News

VANCOUVER — Mosquito traps have been set up across the Sea-to-Sky region in British Columbia as health officials launch a pilot project to understand the area's mosquitoes and the illnesses they spread.

OTTAWA — The 2025 wildfire season is already one of the worst on record for Canada, federal officials said Friday, and there is a high risk that more fires will break out in August.

The Blue Jays may be one of the hottest teams in Major League Baseball, but Toronto is quickly becoming its hottest city. Literally.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The owner of a factory where six workers died last year in flooding from Hurricane Helene won't face charges after a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation found no criminal wrongdoing.

ST. JOHN'S — Cabin owners in northeastern Newfoundland spent much of Friday protecting their structures from a stubborn wildfire, pumping ocean water onto flare-ups stoked by a spate of dry, hot weather.

MONTREAL — Scouts Canada says it has accepted an offer to sell a historic camp site north of Montreal that first opened more than 110 years ago.

QUÉBEC — Up to 75 millimetres of rain fell over two hours in parts of the Quebec City area on Thursday when severe thunderstorms swept across southern Quebec.

ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Candace Frazee recently walked through the burnt remains of The Bunny Museum, searching for anything that could be salvaged before workers cleared the land.

VANCOUVER — Chatchawan Jaksuwong says he used to feel empty when he looked at the ocean.

DARTMOUTH — Burrowing under seaweed and crawling around a large open-top tank at an ocean centre in Dartmouth, N.S., are two beady-eyed alien-like creatures named Moonmist and Bingo.