For a fourth year in a row, Manitoba’s grasshopper population is on the rise and causing more issues for farmers already struggling to make it through drought conditions.

World-class canoe sprinter Laurence Vincent Lapointe wants to move forward from her suspension, the legal proceedings that overturned it and the not knowing if she'd even get to the Games. But the emotional trauma of all that still lingers.

Andre De Grasse remains on track to repeat his triple-medal Olympic performance from 2016. The decorated Canadian sprinter easily advanced to the 200-metre semifinals on Tuesday in Tokyo, placing third in his heat at 20.56 seconds.

More than 300 people died in recent flooding in central China, authorities said Monday, three times the previously announced toll.

The National for Monday, August 2 — Canadian women’s soccer team will go for gold at Tokyo 2020 after beating the United States. Plus, researchers try to figure out what’s behind a rise in vicious coyote attacks.

Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry has signed with the Miami Heat, ending his time with the Canadian team.

Marie-Mireille Bence, the mother of a Repentigny man shot by police on Sunday, says her son was having a mental health crisis and had just dropped a dinner knife when he was shot.

Former Canadian senator Murray Sinclair and a group representing survivors of the Sixties Scoop want a federal inquiry into the actions and policies of governments that led to thousands of Indigenous children taken from their homes and placed with non-Indigenous families.

The International Olympic Committee has been trying to push gender equality at Tokyo 2020, but sports writer Kavitha Davidson and Michele Donnelly, an assistant professor of sports management at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ont., say there's still a long way to go.

American comedian Kathy Griffin urges fans to "stay up to date on your medical checkups" after revealing she will undergo treatment for lung cancer.