Florence made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane at 7:15 a.m. at Wrightsville Beach, a few miles east of Wilmington, as the centre of its eye moved onshore, the National Hurricane Center said.

The permits cover an offshore area more than one-and-a-half times the size of Vancouver Island.

The chief executive officer of the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and Whistler, B.C., says the $7.7 billion that鈥檚 been attached to those games is inflated and that the actual cost was closer to $4 billion.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia has identified the two men that Britain named as suspects in the poisoning of a former Russian spy, and that there is 鈥渘othing criminal鈥� about them.

Leader Jagmeet Singh has stood firm in his decision to block Weir from returning to caucus or running in the 2019 election.

Forecasters warn that the widening storm 鈥� and its likelihood of lingering around the coast day after day 鈥� will bring seawater surging onto land and torrential downpours.

One of the Humboldt Broncos hockey players injured in a bus crash that killed 16 people has joined his hometown Western Hockey League team as an assistant to the coaches.

Ottawa and Washington are working to reach an agreement that needs to be submitted to the U.S. Congress by Oct. 1.

More than 1.7 million people in the Carolinas and Virginia were warned to clear out

About 440 Canadians have registered in areas near hurricane Florence; 3,446 near typhoon Mangkhut