Beyond Local

OTTAWA — It's a sunny July day at an outdoor hockey rink outside North Bay, Ont. An acoustic guitar player belts out a ballad about freedom. An adoring crowd sings along.

Baseball: Former Alberta Western Baseball player wins on first day in MLB

LETHBRIDGE — The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team is investigating a woman's death which police say happened after she'd been released from hospital into their custody.

PHOTOS: Mînî Thnî Classic Pow Wow was held this long weekend. Check out the images from this beautiful event.

YELLOWKNIFE — Residents of Yellowknife and a nearby First Nation who have been evacuated for weeks due to wildfires are being told to start planning now for their return home, beginning Wednesday.

The Airdrie RCMP briefly issued a shelter-in-place order in the early morning hours on Saturday in a Balzac community as officers responded to an incident.

Unhoused people in Vancouver given $7,500 spent the money on housing, clothing, food, transit and not on drugs and alcohol as some would believe.

HONOLULU (AP) — The number of people on the official list of those missing from the Maui wildfire stood at 385 on Friday, nearly unchanged from a week earlier.

A youth who threatened a driver with a knife at an ESSO station in Northern Alberta will serve 18-months of probation which will allow them to get mental-health counselling

OTTAWA — The Canadian Border Services Agency is improving the perimeter fences, gate controls and road infrastructure at 11 border crossings between the United States and Canada