Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino, one of the stars of MTV’s “The Jersey Shore,” was indicted for failing to pay taxes on $8.9 million in income.

Staff with the Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre released seven rescued seal pups into Burrard Inlet Wednesday from Cates Park in North Vancouver.

Data from three of NASA’s space telescopes, Hubble, Spitzer and Kepler, have discovered clear skies and water vapour on a gaseous exoplanet that is about the size of Neptune, making it the smallest planet from which molecules of any kind have been detected.

Two police officers stopped a car in which Tina Fontaine was a passenger on the last day the teenager was seen alive, CTV News is reporting.

Two sisters whose images have been closely tied to the popular sexting app Snapchat have sued its founder because their likeness is now associated with so-called “snapchat sluts.”

A new study in the ‘British Medical Journal’ suggests one more risk factor for women to consider in the fight against breast cancer…our skirt size. This time, researchers are not talking about a concern for overall weight gain, as much as the tape measure, and what number it shows when it is wrapped around a woman’s waist.

The federal government has named a new chief public health officer to fill a job left vacant for the last 15 months. Dr. Gregory Taylor, already acting head of the Public Health Agency of Canada, became Canada’s top doctor Wednesday, a move cautiously welcomed by opposition politicians.

Scientists from the University of Warwick found that high and low mental wellbeing were consistently associated with an individual’s fruit and vegetable consumption.

A local teacher has been suspended two weeks for a homophobic prank on a student. In September 2013, Daniel Ogloff, a teacher at Aldergrove Community Secondary School, placed the tape on the back of a Grade 11 male student without his knowledge, reads a discipline decision from the British Columbia Commissioner for Teacher Regulation.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada is “weighing our response” to a U.S. letter asking for more help in the fight against Islamic State militants in the Middle East. But any military action against extremists in Iraq and Syria would have to be debated by the government first, Harper said Wednesday.

Reeva Steenkamp’s mother, June, is set to publish a book about the trial in which athlete Oscar Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide for the Valentine’s Day killing of the model. She is also speaking out about her feelings on the charges, for which he will be sentenced in October.