Burglars rifled through the pockets of an elderly homeowner while he lay dead in his home in Terrace, B.C., police say.

The abrupt cancellation of the federal government's popular energy retrofit program has stunned homeowners who thought they still had two months to take advantage of the incentive.

Bank of America is providing mortgage relief to about 200,000 U.S. homeowners whose home values have fallen below what they owe on their mortgages.