TORONTO — The massive $70 million dollar Lotto Max jackpot remained unclaimed after Friday night's draw.Once again, there was no winning ticket.However, there were also 56 Maxmillions prizes of $1 million each up for grabs, and 20 of them were won ...

Saying the future of the cruise ship industry in B.C. could be in jeopardy, the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority has called on the federal government to immediately declare it will be ready to welcome cruise ships to Canadian waters next year. ...

Despite a two-year deferral of old-growth logging on some parts of South Vancouver Island, arrests have continued as protesters dig in around the Fairy Creek, Caycuse and Walbran areas. In Victoria on Friday, demonstrators raised the decibel level ...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Friday, June 11, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 452,000 new vaccinations administered for a total of 28,167,799 doses given. Nationwide, 4,000,799 people or 11 ...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Friday, June 11, 2021.There are 1,399,716 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 1,399,716 confirmed cases (18,411 active, 1,355,419 resolved, 25,886 deaths).*The total case ...

The Malahat Nation community is in mourning after Thursday’s house fire in which an 18-year-old woman died. Shawnigan Lake RCMP said four people escaped the blaze, but the woman died after alerting the others. Those who escaped were taken to ho...

SEATTLE — U.S. officials are proposing to curtail nontribal salmon fishing along the West Coast in especially bad years to help the endangered killer whales. NOAA Fisheries is taking public comment on the plan, which calls for restricting comme...

A section of Government Street has been transformed into a new pedestrian-priority zone as part of the City of Victoria’s Build Back Victoria program.Effective immediately, Government Street between Humboldt Street and View Street will be closed to...

West Shore RCMP are looking for 25-year-old Abigayle Singh, who left Victoria General Hospital on Monday against a doctor’s recommendation.Despite being advised to stay, she walked away from the facility and there is concern for her well-being.Sing...

The City of Victoria is inviting feedback from the public — in the form of an online survey — on the design proposal of a new skateboard park and bike skills park in Topaz Park. The city has set up a web page that includes the proposed design...

OTTAWA — More than 300,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson single-shot COVID-19 vaccine will not be released for use in Canada.The vaccines were quarantined in April before they were distributed to provinces because Health Canada was informed the dr...

DENVER (AP) — One of the suspects in a fatal attack at a suburban Denver high school in 2019 had become such a chronic drug user in the months before the shooting that he likely "couldn’t think, concentrate or understand" events around him that d...

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government is working on incorporating a "significant additional" shipment of Moderna vaccine into its plans as it pushes for more people to sign up for their second dose. A joint statement from the provincial health...

VICTORIA — British Columbia's premier says legislation proposed in the United States that would scrap a long-standing requirement for American cruise ships to dock at a foreign port between domestic stops doesn't change the fact people want to visi...

VICTORIA — A Vancouver police officer faces an assault charge. The BC Prosecution Service issued a statement Friday saying the charge has been approved against Const. Arminder Singh Gill.The service says the charge relates to the arrest of a person...

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:Toronto Stock Exchange (20,138.35, up 88.88 points.)Hut 8 Mining Corp. (TSX:HUT). Technology. Down $1.18, or 19.31 per cent, to $4.93 on 9.9 million shares.Blac...

WINNIPEG — The leader of the People's Party of Canada was arrested Friday in Manitoba after attending a rally against COVID-19 restrictions.RCMP said Maxime Bernier was charged with exceeding public gathering limits and violating Manitoba's require...

REGINA — Canada’s first legal supervised consumption site opened in Vancouver in 2003, but it would take 18 years and more than 1,000 drug-related deaths in Saskatchewan before similar support would become available in the province's capital. "Th...

WINNIPEG — The season ended with his team being swept in the second round of the NHL playoffs, but Winnipeg head coach Paul Maurice says he's proud of the job the Jets coaching staff did this season while playing in a global pandemic.Winnipeg (30-2...

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) — A commercial lobster diver who got caught in the mouth of a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod on Friday morning said he thought he was going to die.Michael Packard, 56, of Wellfleet, told WBZ-TV after he was released...