A small plane has crashed in the backyard of a home in the Saint-Hubert neighbourhood of Longueuil. The plane appears to have crashed outside a home at 1220 Jean-Baptiste-Charron St., a small, dead-end street near Raoul Ave., very near Route 116 to the airport. The plane crashed immediately after taking off from the Saint-Hubert airport.

It’s the biggest aggregation of anchovies seen in near-shore waters in three decades, according to scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.

There has been a major privacy breach in BC’s prescription medication dispensing information system. About 1,600 people’s personal information has been accessed.

A new study has recently documented the advantages of organic food and crops over their conventional counterparts. The findings suggested that organic foods and crops have 18 to 69 percent higher concentrations of antioxidant compounds and the levels of pesticide residues were usually 10-fold to 100-fold lower.

Citing an anthrax scare and a recurring problem with safety, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday shut down two research labs and stopped shipping highly dangerous germs to other labs. One of the closed facilities was involved an incident last month that could have accidentally exposed workers in three labs to anthrax. A second, previously undisclosed problem …

If you looked up to the skies last night you may have noticed just how bright the moon was. NASA says, this summer’s full moons will all be supermoons, which appear larger and brighter than normal. The first is this weekend, so if you missed Friday night’s, you’ll get another chance Saturday night.

Since 2011, the New York State Government has spent more than $30 million trying to combat invasive plant and animal species. This week, state officials urge the public to join in the fight.

The National Energy Board will review proposals by Chevron Corp. and Imperial Oil Ltd. for alternatives to same-season relief wells in future Arctic drilling, in the first tests of a recent change to long-standing policy.

The Alberta government has decided that it is time for new licence plates. Residents are encouraged to vote for which licence plate they like the best on the Government of Alberta website. Voting will continue until August 19, when the design with the most votes will be chosen to represent our province.

Police say a woman was stabbed to death at a Merrillville, IN hospital and a man believed to be her husband was found murdered in Gary. According to authorities, it was around 12:45 this morning when hospital staff heard an altercation in the room of an elderly woman and when they entered her room they found her fatally stabbed.

A Beaver County teacher is accused of having sex with two of her students. Twenty-six-year-old Tiffany Leiseth was a substitute for the New Brighton Area School District when police say she sent nude photos of herself to the high school seniors days before graduation. The 18-year-old students also told police they had sex with her at her home in Moon …