Montreal might be the most culturally spirited town in North America right now. Just a few hundred miles from metropolitan “neighbors” like New York City and Toronto—but otherwise what feels like a ...

France’s ultimately successful efforts to make the waters of the Seine River clean enough for Olympic swimming events may help build necessary public support for the substantial and continuing ...

As non-stop rain poured over Southern Quebec, James Murchison and his wife made their way into Montreal from Ottawa on Aug. 9. They'd given themselves four hours to do so, despite the trip normally ...

A water treatment plant from Canada's second biggest city, Montreal, is dumping 90 times the critical amount of certain estrogen products into the river. It only takes one nanogram (ng) of steroids ...

Montreal and Ottawa are strengthening flood protections as spring runoff and saturated ground drive river levels higher. Montreal crews are installing dikes, pumps and sandbags, while Ottawa officials ...

Montreal, Canada’s second-largest city, began dumping untreated sewage into the St. Lawrence River on Wednesday, angering environmentalists with a repair operation that could release as much as 2.1 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Murchison and his wife, and 150 or so other cars, became stuck on Highway 40 in Kirkland on the island of Montreal Friday ...