Beyond Local

DETROIT (AP) — Tesla says it will cut the cost of its next generation of vehicles in half, largely by using innovative manufacturing techniques and smaller factories.

New rules doubling for motorists who go faster than 60 kilometres an hour (km/h) when passing stopped emergency crews on highways with their lights flashing now come into effect Sept. 1

Suntree neighbourhood features at beginning of 'Left Behind' before scene change to Calgary's Northland Village mall.

VICTORIA — A centrepiece of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria, Woolly the mammoth, was defaced with pink paint by protesters trying to draw attention to climate change.

Canada's three remaining captive walruses have been moved to a new marine park in Abu Dhabi. Smooshi and her baby, Koyuk, from Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont.

The popular program provides up to $3,000 in rebates towards the cost of xeriscaping a new yard or where grass is removed in an existing yard.

BERLIN (AP) — New research reveals that the hunter-gatherer people who dominated Europe 30,000 years ago sought refuge from the last Ice Age in warmer places, but only those who sheltered in what is now Spain and Portugal appear to have survived.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The father of the cellphone was there. So was Huawei and a host of other Chinese tech companies .

TORONTO — A media backlash against the Dilbert comic strip took hold in Canada on Monday as several of the country's biggest newspapers announced they were dropping the office-set cartoon over recent remarks by its creator.

In this recipe from Eric Akis, shrimp salad, flavoured with curry powder, lime and mango chutney, is served in lettuce leaves, ready to wrap up and devour.