An Alaska company says changing ice conditions in the North Slope area have allowed it to make a bulk fuel delivery to Prudhoe Bay by barge for the first time.

Biologists say plentiful food and other conditions are helping the rodents to thrive, and now the young ones are hitting the road.

Investigators are on their way to Kugaaruk, Nunavut, after a passenger boat ran aground in the area.

Days of rain have triggered flooding in Cordova and slowed drivers on the Taylor Highway and McCarthy Road.

Buckled train tracks, fires and thunderstorms are causing major problems for the country's railways, Thursday.

Exhaust emissions from a Norwegian Cruise Line vessel docking in Juneau prompted at least 10 complaints to an Alaska regulatory agency.

Transportation engineers moved the road to avoid a giant mass of frozen debris sliding downhill.

The region is so hot that it has experienced 12 "tropical" nights with evening temperatures above 20 degrees Celsius so far this year, according to the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

Highway 22 in southern Alberta was blanketed in what looked like snow but was probably hail, making roads slick and slow.

A local firefighter who was killed fighting a fast-moving wildfire was identified Friday as crews continued to battle the blaze in Redding, California.

Firefi­ghters say around 160 reside­nts have been briefl­y trappe­d in their homes due to the floodi­ng

The statistics in her recently published paper say it all: hundreds of glaciers in Canada's High Arctic are shrinking and many are likely to disappear completely.

Intense heat and water shortages raised fears of disease outbreaks in flood-hit western Japan on Thursday as the death toll from the worst weather disaster in 36 years neared 200. More than 200,000 households had no water a week after torrential rains caused floods and set off landslides across western Japan, bringing death and destruction to decades-old communities built on mountain slopes and flood plains. The death toll rose to 195, with several dozen people still missing, the government said on Thursday.

As the climate changes, powerful Arctic cyclones—storms that hammer the sea with pounding rain and gusting winds—are expected to grow stronger and more frequent. As these two trends converge, the potential for catastrophe is rising.

Two centimetres had fallen in parts of Newfoundland

Snow arrived in certain parts of British Columbia over the last 24 hours, providing citizens with up to a whopping 20 cm.

This spring’s closures on the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway are a result of unusually wet weather and drivers failing to respect road closures, according to engineers with the Northwest Territories Infrastructure Department.

Ellicott City was devastated by heavy rain Sunday, just two years after the historic city in Howard County was forced to recover from another flash flood.

Questions raised about the impacts of vehicle exhaust and soot on snow deposition as well as dirt and dust from roads.

Military help is on the way to B.C. communities ravaged by floods, as rivers rise and more people are forced out of their homes around the province.