Christmas lights News

North Vancouver - Every season of the year, crowds of visitors come to visit Capilano Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver. But visiting this, one of the city's top attractions, during the Christmas season has its own taste and charm, incomparable to any one in the region.

When Christmas comes the world lights up, literally. Those decorations you've put on the house won't just brighten up the neighbourhood, but they could be sending a message to aliens that a festive season is underway.

When it comes to solving one of the most aggravating Christmas problems, a Kickstarter campaign for wireless Christmas lights may have the best answer.

Charlotte - Christmas Town, USA, otherwise known as McAdenville, NC lost its glow on Saturday night. This past weekend was expected to be the busiest weekend of the season.

Banff residents were treated this week to an unusual display of Christmas lights when an elk had four meters of candy cane and lights caught in his antlers, trailing him.

Homeowners don't just decorate their homes with holiday lights and other festive signs of the season, but many enshrine their shrubbery and trees with the twinkling lights. This may all be well and good, but for wildlife it's another story.

Nashville - Nashville's Opryland Hotel has lit up the southeast side of the city for the past 29 years, illuminating the banks of the Cumberland River with more than 2 millions Christmas lights, and putting everyone that passes in a festive mood.

Perth - It's hard to find anyone who doesn't enjoy a well choreographed Christmas light show, and when you add Psy and his Gangnam Style mega-hit to the mix, the result is a phenomenal display of light and music.

Sheffield - It’s an annual problem as seasonal as Jingle Bells – spend ages decorating the Christmas tree, stand back to admire it then find garlands hanging forlornly and Christmas tree lights, dense on one side and sparse on the other. Now a solution exists.

Ormeau - With the computers of today, it is not uncommon for people to set their outdoor Christmas lights to music, but one Queensland, Australia neighborhood is going all out, designing several different musical light shows for people to enjoy.

Meridian - The Cadger family of Meridian, Idaho, have shown that you can combine Christmas light shows with the musical genre of dubstep.

Nashville - Nashville and the surrounding areas are quickly turning into a treasure trove of holiday light displays, illuminating the night with festive cheer.

Frankenmuth is known as Michigan's Little Bavaria, a great place to visit for just about any reason or anytime in the year. They are well known for their chicken dinners and the home of Bronners, the largest Christmas store in the world.

Simple strings of lights dot the neighborhoods while traditional holiday lighting illuminates the shopping centers and plazas.

Los Angeles - Christmastime has arrived in Southern California. Beautiful Christmas lights adorn people's homes, and the holiday spirit is in the air.

South Korea plans to display Christmas tree-shaped lights for 15 days within view of the North Korean border beginning Dec. 23. North Korea has warned "unexpected consequences" if the lights are displayed.

El Paso - An extravagant, annual holiday light show has begun in an El Paso, Texas, community despite complaints by residents who say traffic congestion in the residential neighborhood disrupts their lives, causing them to find alternative routes home.

Toronto is lighting up the downtown core for the Christmas season and the Yorkville lights started its annual tradition of a lighting ceremony with fun and dance.

This exact replica of a Friesland flatbottomed fishing boat, displayed in the Dutch harbour of Dokkum, commemorates a 125-year-old tragedy when all the male breadwinners of two entire villages had drowned in a terrible storm which lashed the seadikes.