Federal EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy says most of the conversation surrounding the proposed Clean Power Plan has been positive although the critics seem to be making a lot of noise.

With a solid showing Saturday, the Denzel Washington shoot-em-up The Equalizer was bound for a better-than-expected debut this weekend, flirting with a $35 million bow for Sony Pictures.

But amid the gloom, one plucky species – the tree bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) – seems to have been bucking the trend. Now, scientists at the University of East Anglia appear to have worked out why.

Local technology experts have warned a new computer virus called “Shellshock”, which allows someone else control over your electronics without any permission, is doing the rounds. The virus is said to be threatening the internet’s backbone.

Scores of people are presumed dead after 31 bodies were found by rescuers following the violent eruption of a Japanese volcano on Saturday. The hikers, which were discovered near the peak of Mount Ontake, were found in a state of “cardiopulmonary” arrest, according to police, while reports claim rescuers found them apparently not breathing with their hearts stopped.

A drug used to treat advanced breast cancer has had what appears to be unprecedented success in prolonging lives in a clinical trial, researchers reported on Sunday. Patients who received the drug — Perjeta, from the Swiss drug maker Roche — had a median survival time nearly 16 months longer than those in the control group.

Police in Richmond, B.C., are investigating after three flights arriving and departing from the Vancouver airport were hit by lasers this past week.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford gave a fiery speech at a campaign BBQ in Etobicoke on Saturday evening, thanking the crowd for their support following his cancer diagnosis earlier this month.

A bus transporting the North Central Texas College softball team back to its Gainesville, Texas, campus was hit by a semi truck Friday night, killing four and injuring more than 15, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

You see a lot of things in this job that break your heart, but one of the saddest was this week in the boardroom at The Sudbury Star when Tarra Barnett and six-month-old daughter Sophia visited to tell their story.

Authorities charged an Illinois man late Friday with setting a fire at a control facility outside of Chicago that caused chaos within the facility and throughout the nation with thousands of flight cancellations.