In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of March 17 ...What we are watching in Canada ...TORONTO — Public health officials are urging St....

As COVID-19 vaccine supplies ramp up across the country, most provinces and territories have released details of who can expect to receive a shot in the coming weeks. Also, the federal government said it will continue to include the Oxford-AstraZenec...

VANCOUVER — Growing COVID-19 case numbers from variants of concern in British Columbia could dash the province's hopes for indoor religious services or any other return to normal life in the near future, experts say.Sally Otto, a University of Brit...

OTTAWA — Former Conservative leadership candidate and longtime party stalwart Peter MacKay won't attend the party's policy convention this week. MacKay cited work and family as the reason for his absence."I am focused on my young family and the pra...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Wednesday, March 17, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 120,004 new vaccinations administered for a total of 3,271,309 doses given. Nationwide, 604,921 people or 1.6 pe...

VANCOUVER — Officials in British Columbia and Washington state will release their battle plan today to try to wipe out Asian giant hornets. Also dubbed the murder hornet, the invasive wasps have been found in communities along both sides of the Can...

TORONTO — Public health officials are urging St. Patrick's Day revellers to follow physical distancing and other anti-pandemic guidelines today.The main concern is that gatherings and celebrations could turn into COVID-19 super-spreader events.Some...

VANCOUVER — The actions of RCMP and Canadian border officers in the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou are expected to be at the centre of her extradition case today as it resumes in B.C. Supreme Court. Meng was arrested in December 2018 at Va...

Business owners along the 1100-block of Broad Street are hoping to bring a piece of Europe to downtown Victoria by making permanent the closing of the single block to motor traffic.They have petitioned the City of Victoria to permanently close the st...

Today’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations at bars and pubs promise to be a more restrained affair than normal.The Irish Times pub plans to keep things low-key, obeying provincial health regulations brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.Irish Times gen...

Metchosin council has unanimously passed a bylaw blocking future subdivision applications on a 39.5-acre site owned by the Boys and Girls Club of Greater ­Victoria. The new rule does not, however, affect a recent application to create seven 4.9-acre...

The death of a barred owl in Saxe Point Park just before Esquimalt council voted to ban rodenticides was an “unfortunate coincidence,” said Mayor Barb Desjardins.There were concerns the owl died from eating a poisoned rat, just as there were with...

The province has again extended its ongoing state of emergency in response to the pandemic. There are 4,999 active COVID-19 cases in B.C. with 556 new diagnoses, including 470 in the Fraser and Vancouver Coastal health regions. There were 27 new ...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, March 16, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 120,004 new vaccinations administered for a total of 3,271,309 doses given. Nationwide, 604,921 people or 1.6 ...

WASHINGTON — Male songbirds usually learn their tunes from adult mentors. But when aspiring crooners lack proper role models, they hit all the wrong notes — and have less success attracting mates.For five years, ecologist Ross Crates has tracked ...

Tiger Woods is back at home in Florida to resume his recovery from career-threatening leg injuries he suffered when his SUV ran off a road and down a hill in the Los Angeles suburbs last month."Happy to report that I am back home and continuing my re...

NEW YORK — CBS says its daytime show "The Talk" will stay on hiatus for another week after a discussion about racism involving co-host Sharon Osbourne went off the rails last week.The network said in a statement that it is committed to "a process w...

WASHINGTON — A surge of migrants on the Southwest border has the Biden administration on the defensive, with the head of Homeland Security acknowledging the depth of the problem Tuesday but insisting it’s under control and saying he won’t reviv...

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers expressed frustration Tuesday with how slowly improvements are being made to criminal investigation at Fort Hood, Texas, where rates of violent crime and sexual assaults are particularly high.They grilled the commander of the...

LONDON — Uber is giving its U.K. drivers the minimum wage, pensions and holiday pay, following a recent court ruling that said they should be classified as workers and entitled to such benefits.The ride hailing giant's announcement Tuesday comes af...