CBC News: Breaking & Local

🇺🇸 United States
CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION  | 
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App Rating
4.6
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Votes
59.72K
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App Age
14y 11m
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Last Update
Dec 22, 2025

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Rating
4.62
4.54
+2%
Number of Ratings (Voted)
59.7K
1M
-94%
App Age
14y 10m
12y 12m
+15%
In-app Purchases Price
$0
$97
Update Frequency
27d
38d
-28%
Title Length
26
22
+18%
Subtitle Length
29
23
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Description Length
1 085
2 482
-56%
Number of Screenshots
936
1512
-38 %
Size
102MB
119MB
-14 %

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CBC News: Breaking & Local
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National, World & Sports News
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From breaking news alerts to in-depth coverage, the CBC News App is a fast and easy way to catch up on what’s happening in your local area, in Canada, and the World. Features: Lock Screen Widget - View the latest headlines directly on your lock screen for quick and easy access to the top stories. News Alerts - Subscribe to push notifications for news stories that interest you and are relevant to your life. In-Depth Coverage - Get trusted insights and in-depth analysis from our award-winning journalists. Breadth of Coverage - Local, National & World news. Live Coverage - Stream news as it happens and shows, including Canada's Nightly Newscast, The National. Regional Coverage - Get the latest news headlines in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Halifax and Calgary. Personalization - Select your platform layout and the regional news you want to follow. Save & Share Stories - Save stories to read later, even offline and share your favourite stories with friends. If you’d like to report an issue or request a feature, please contact us at https://cbchelp.cbc.ca/hc/en-us}
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Rating
4.6
59 720 voters

Some Latest Reviews

dougydog
01 Jan, 2026
4
Running OS 26 on iPad. The new release has a major issue for me. The individual news article articles do not have a closing symbol. I have to exit the app to begin a new article. Very frustrating.
oilerssuck
31 Dec, 2025
2
CAUTION: when opening a video link, you cannot close the video to go back to the news story. You have to actually close the entire app, then sign back in later. Very frustrating!!
camshaftyow
30 Dec, 2025
2
First off, I love the CBC and the content of the app is generally very good. But please, CBC, fix the annoying ad formatting issue. As new ads load while reading an article, the text jumps around, often leaving me in mid-sentence staring at a blank page. I have to scroll up or down a screen (which way is random) to find where I was reading. This happens 2-3 times while reading each article. It’s almost to the point I am going to give up on the app and just use a browser.
BaTV2019
29 Dec, 2025
2
First off, the ads keep changing and every time it does the article jumps and I loose my place. This is very frustrating. With quality computer programming this shouldn’t happen. Second, I see and hear important stories on other reliable Canadian news sources that CBC isn’t picking up on. So I feel I’m missing out on some important stories. However, this does encourage me to keep following other sources of Canadian news.
terrygo+6
29 Dec, 2025
3
Since the last update - just a few days ago - can’t listen to the National News for any length of time - it keeps shutting off abruptly on my iPad 10th Generation. So I have to switch to my iPhone 7 to watch the National News! Haven’t noticed it shutting off on other CBC News stories on iPad 10 th generation. Deleted the app and re-downloaded it and cleared my cache - didn’t help! Looks like you have a bug in your latest update. Didn’t have a problem before!
Joebobstevefrank
28 Dec, 2025
1
As of version 7.0.1 it seems to require that you have an account to see the news, while before it didn’t
Em245690753178
14 Dec, 2025
2
I use this app every single day, primarily to watch the news. There are some kinks here and there. But I was thrilled to see that the recent major update finally added a playback slider bar for the full screen videos - making it much easier to jump ahead or back. However, this came at a cost…. For some reason they got rid of the 10 second rewind and fast forward buttons. This is only in the full screen video player, the small floating player still has the 10 second rewind and fast forward. So now you have to use the playback slider slider for all rewinding and fast forwarding… which is a pain because you can’t be as precise quickly -the bar is too tiny and you have to be very delicate with the movement to go back-and-forth. The purpose of the 10 second rewind button is for quick use. I don’t know why they got rid of it. It is stupid. Please bring it back. I will update my rating if you do.
mdknuts
14 Dec, 2025
3
I just updated this app today on December 13. I don’t know who made these changes to the tech size for primary articles, but it is terrible. I do not like the size please go back to the original version. If I make the text size on my phone smaller to accommodate this terrible change then the secondary articles appear too small. Did you also change the text font because it is also terrible. Please put it back the way it was.
400Frenzy
09 Dec, 2025
1
The news content of the app is great, typical of the CBC, but the ads force the written content of the article to bounce up and down the screen and consistently pushes the reading content out of view, it is very annoying! And after 2-3 years there is still nothing done to correct the issue. Typical of bureaucratic institutions like government and crown corporations! And 2 years later they still have NOT addressed these issues, WOW, UNBELIEVABLE!

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.63
Voted: 59.72K
App Store Link:
Website:
Email: -
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Categories: News
Size: 102MB
App Age: 14 years 11 months
Release Date: Feb 19, 2011
Last Update: Dec 22, 2025
Version: 7.0.1
Version history
7.0.1
Dec 22, 2025
This update brings authentication improvements for a smoother sign-in experience. We’ve also refreshed the B.C. Local tab to help you explore more local news. Finally, we fixed a scrolling issue in Saved Stories and resolved a problem with the share icon on stories opened from search.
7.0.0
Dec 17, 2025
This update brings authentication improvements for a smoother sign-in experience. We’ve also refreshed the B.C. Local tab to help you explore more local news, and fixed an issue where the share icon was unresponsive on stories opened from search.
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