Beyond Local

“I just swung down, as hard as I could, with a porcelain mug I had and it just exploded over his head,” man says of encounter with black bear in North Vancouver.

The FurBearers organization penned a letter to Airdrie last week asking municipal representatives to no longer trap and euthanize beavers that are considered a nuisance.

Police say they believe the suspect targeted the All Saints Russian Orthodox Church on Tuesday because of its Russian heritage.

Mounties say some tombstones at the Innisfail Cemetery were damaged in suspected vandalism spree.

Airdrie woman tells first-degree murder trial that she raced outside to find her husband lying face down on their driveway. 

17-year-old Kyle Santucci breaks national mark at the inaugural Rockies Rager in Canmore.

Police say they responded to a report from High Prairie Regional Hospital of the sudden death of a seven-month-old boy.

The Quebec provincial police's four-year-old expanded cold case squad logged its first victory on Thursday after a man was formally charged in a 22-year-old murder and a separate, violent sexual assault.

Police said the man was wearing a disguise and speaking “in an odd high-pitched accent that was either Australian or British.”

The 13 enrolment centres in Canada, jointly staffed by Canadian and U.S. officers, remain closed amid a dispute over legal protections for the U.S. officers who work there.