Four years after stretching the municipal budget to buy a decommissioned school, the District of Metchosin will get its chance to reinvent the space as the community centre it envisioned in 2017 thanks to a $944,603 infrastructure grant from senior...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say three more provincial capitals have fallen to the Taliban, putting nine out of the country's 34 in the insurgents' hands amid the U.S. withdrawal. The officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday t...

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. — Nearly two dozen protesters have been arrested in the Granite Mainline Forest Service Road area, as RCMP enforced a BC Supreme Court injunction against blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Islan...

DANDONG, China — A Chinese court has sentenced Canadian Michael Spavor to 11 years on spying charges in a case linked to China-based technology company Huawei.Spavor was detained in 2018 after the Canadian government arrested an executive of Huawei...

TERRA NOVA, N.L. — The RCMP in Newfoundland and Labrador say police have a suspect in custody after reports of an active shooter near the village of Terra Nova northwest of St. John's.At one point Mounties told people in the community on Tuesday ni...

Canadian Bhangra dancing sensation Gurdeep Pandher is offering a how-to on expressing joy and optimism through movement on the front lawn of the B.C. legislature Wednesday night. Pandher is offering a free half-hour in-person Bhangra lesson at 6 ...

Comox Valley RCMP are trying to locate a 31-year-old man who hasn’t been seen since last week.Darrell Featherstone was reported missing to police on Aug. 6 after he stopped showing up for work and contacting friends and family.Police spokeswoman Co...

WASHINGTON — Canada's immigration minister talked Canada-U.S. border issues Monday with the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.But the federal government's official account of the meeting between Marco Mendicino and Alejandro May...

VICTORIA — The British Columbia Prosecution Service says two special prosecutors have declined further charges after receiving the final RCMP report into the spending activities of senior staff at the provincial legislature.The service says in a st...

No further charges will be approved in a case involving senior staff at the B.C. legislature that saw officials escorted from the building by police amid allegations of misspent taxpayer dollars. Craig James, the former clerk, has pleaded not gui...

A cyclist’s lack of a proper helmet may lead to a mountain bike owner getting his ride back.Nanaimo RCMP are asking for the public’s help in identifying the owner of a bike they seized.Officers on patrol around Uplands Drive and Hammond Bay Road ...

VICTORIA — British Columbia health officials reported 395 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday with infections showing no signs of slowing down.In a news release, they say there are no additional deaths and 23 of those infected are in intensive care.They ...

B.C. reported 395 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the number of active cases in the province to 3,284. Seventy-one people were in hospital, including 23 in intensive care. There were 31 new cases in Island Health, bringing the number o...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that several of Indiana’s laws restricting abortion are unconstitutional, including the state’s ban on telemedicine consultations between doctors and women seeking abortions.The judge’s ruling...

HOTEL ROOM-OVERDOSE DEATHSMan, 21, enters plea in overdose deaths at suburban hotelAUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A 21-year-old man faces up to 15 years in prison in the deaths of three people who fatally overdosed in a suburban Detroit hotel room. The...

BRANDON, Man. — Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says he won't seek re-election and a new Progressive Conservative leader will be chosen before the next provincial election."After almost 10 years as leader of our party and more than five years as o...

The RCMP arrested 33 people in the Fairy Creek area Monday and protesters say one man suffered a broken ankle after alleged “excessive” actions by police.RCMP used all-terrain ­vehicles to enter the blockades and a helicopter to monitor camps in...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, who served more than 24 years in a southwestern Wisconsin district that former President Donald Trump carried in 2020, announced Tuesday that he won’t seek reelection next year.Kind is one of ju...

OTTAWA — The federal government is establishing a college for immigration and citizenship consultants to become the official regulator of the profession across the country.The federal Immigration Department said the college will open in November an...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — People fired from their jobs for using marijuana outside the workplace still should be eligible for unemployment benefits, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a filing before the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Commis...