Victoria police are asking citizens to look out for “high-risk” Frances Ricks, 83, who was last seen in the 700 block of Fort Street about about 2:30 p.m. Saturday.Ricks has a medical condition and police are concerned for her wellbeing, police s...

CARLA WILSON Times Colonist ^ Old-growth trees in B.C. are bound to be spared from logging now that the months-long dispute in the Fairy Creek region has been taken up by the federal Liberal party, predicts Glen Reid, an organizer with the Rainforest...

COMOX, B.C. — A three-year-old girl has died after a rock fell on her at a resort on Vancouver Island. Mount Washington Alpine Resort says in a statement that the girl was playing miniature golf with her brother and parents when a rock dislodged fr...

The outbreak at Victoria’s Sunset Lodge long-term care home has expanded as two more staff tested positive for COVID-19. That means a total of five employees have now tested positive. The latest two results followed Friday testing, Island Health sa...

A three-year-old girl who had been playing mini-golf has died after a rock came loose and hit her at Mount Washington Alpine Resort. The girl was playing with her parents and brother when the rock knocked her unconscious on Friday afternoon, said a s...

WINNIPEG — It’s better late than never for Andrew Harris.The star running back for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (2-1) will make his season debut Sunday at home against the Calgary Stampeders (1-2) after missing the first three games of the year with...

VICTORIA — A report that found systemic racism in a British Columbia school board and called for a provincewide review is "vindicating," the deputy chief of a First Nation in the province said Saturday.Jayde Chingee said the McLeod Lake Indian Band...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida has strengthened to a Category 2 storm in the Gulf of Mexico as it approaches Louisiana.The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the storm's maximum sustained winds increased Saturday afternoon to 100 mph (155 kph). ...

BERLIN (AP) — Protesters filled the German capital again on Saturday to demonstrate against the government’s coronavirus measures, despite bans against several gatherings.Police had banned nine planned demonstrations for Saturday, including one f...

MONTREAL — Quebec is reporting 604 new cases of COVID-19 today, but no additional deaths attributed to the virus. The number marks the third consecutive day that the province has logged more than 600 new daily infections.Public health data shows ho...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting swiftly on President Joe Biden's promise to retaliate for the deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport, the U.S. military said it killed a member of the Islamic State group's Afghanistan affiliate with a drone strike in the ...

MONTREAL — Quebec's police watchdog is investigating after a woman was found unconscious at a Quebec City police station. The Bureau of Independent Investigations issued a release saying Quebec City police officers arrested a 59-year-old woman for ...

Sachin Dev is one of the many international students navigating Canada's extended ban on direct flights from India as he tries to make his way to Montreal before the start of the new semester. The PhD student at McGill University has been planning a ...

A Canadian coal-mining giant is fighting new American environmental rules that tighten restrictions on the release of a contaminant toxic to fish. On Aug. 13, Teck Resources petitioned Montana to rescind a rule brought in last fall that dramatically ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Rumbles from the motorcycles and rock shows of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally have hardly cleared from the Black Hills of South Dakota, and the reports of COVID-19 infections among rallygoers are already streaming in — 178 ...

Water restrictions have been implemented by Cowichan Valley Regional District due to limited availability of drinking water and concerns over fire-suppression capacity in some systems. The restrictions affect all water use other than for drinking...

Esquimalt residents say they are fearful after a convicted sex offender and kidnapper who allegedly tried to break into a female ­neighbour’s house was released from custody. Shortly after 9:30 p.m. on Monday, ­Victoria police patrol officers...

Premier John Horgan has told B.C. ­businesses to call the police if they face abuse from unvaccinated people trying to enter their establishments without a B.C. vaccine card. Horgan made the remarks at a news conference at Logan Lake on Friday ...

The Victoria provincial court will allow the Comox Valley “Dog Whisperer” to assess a dangerous dog held in custody at the city pound since March 19. Ken Griffiths, a professional dog behaviourist who has 29 dogs on his property, has been gra...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Nora formed Saturday in the eastern Pacific on a forecast track that would bring it near the Puerto Vallarta area and then head toward a close encounter with resorts at the tip of Baja California Peninsula.Nora had maxi...