Parks Canada searchers were finally able access a mountainous avalanche site Monday where they believe Sgt. Mark Anthony Salesse was buried by snow last Thursday, but the recovery effort continues.

It’s a sign spring isn’t so far away: the province’s ice-breaking machines are being used on the Red River.

“You mean I’m not white?” That was Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s joking response to a white-washed portrait of himself that went viral on Twitter last week, depicting the Indian-American Republican with pale skin. “I’m shocked at this revelation,” Jindal told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast Monday. “The left is obsessed with race.”

Federal prosecutors said Monday they will seek the death penalty for Farad Roland, the alleged leader of a violent Newark street gang charged with six murders. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder directed that the death penalty be sought in the case, Paul Fishman, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, said in a news release.

Kim Howe has been identified as the woman killed in this weekend’s deadly multi-vehicle crash involving Bruce Jenner. She was a 69-year-old widow who lived in Calabasas and Malibu.

Rail thin Giuliana Rancic causes alarm again as she displays shockingly skinny frame on Grammys red carpet

The exhumed skeleton of a mother who likely died in childbirth 7,700 years ago hid a remarkable secret until a University of Saskatchewan researcher took a closer look. Bio-archeologist Angela Lieverse says she discovered the bones of twins nestled between their Siberian mother’s pelvis and upper leg.

Banned from seeking re-election as a Conservative because she broke party rules, MP Eve Adams bolted the government’s benches Monday to join Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.

Police in Pennsylvania say a teenager fatally shot a classmate in the face and then took a picture with the body. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 16-year-old Maxwell Marion Morton of Jeannette, Pennsylvania, is being held by police without bail on charges of first-degree murder, homicide and illegal possession of a firearm.

Hacktivist group “Anonymous”, has claimed responsibility for hacking into, and taking down websites and social media accounts used by the extremist group Islamic States (IS) in response to the Charlie Hebdo account, The Daily Mirror reported. The militant Islamist organisation has a huge social media presence, with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.

Officials with the City of Saint John say enough snow has been cleared in an area that a state of emergency can be lifted. The city issued an update Sunday to say the cleanup was nearly complete in the Southern Peninsula portion of Saint John.