With less than a week before the federal election, the B.C. Real Estate Association is calling on all parties to start looking at housing policy through a climate-change lens, and recommending gentle densification as a means of providing energy-effic...

Victoria’s cruise-ship industry would be devastated if an Alaska senator has her way and makes permanent an exemption that allows large cruise ships to bypass Canadian ports, says the head of the Greater Victoria H­arbour Authority. Ian Robert...

Our Place closed its drop-in centre on Thursday over concerns of increasing incidents of violence and the refusal of many to wear masks amid highly transmittable variants of the COVID-19 virus. Julian Daly, chief executive of the society, said th...

A rainfall warning has been issued for eastern Vancouver Island, with up to 70 millimetres expected to fall on Friday. In addition to heavy rain, Environment Canada is warning of winds up to 60 km/h coming from the southeast. Special weather st...

British Columbia reported 706 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, along with four new deaths linked to the illness, bringing the death toll to 1,877. Eighty-one of the new cases were in the Island Health region, which has 638 known active cases. ...

VICTORIA — British Columbia's health minister says the province won't be taking COVID-19 patients from Alberta due to current demands on its own health-care system.Adrian Dix says the B.C. Health Ministry told its Alberta counterpart Thursday that ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday evening for voters in Minneapolis to decide on the future of policing in the city where George Floyd was killed, just ahead of the start of early and absentee voting.The state�...

MONTREAL — There was tension over who was in charge at the privately owned Résidence Herron care home as a COVID-19 outbreak worsened last year, with residents and their families left on the sidelines, a Quebec coroner's inquest heard Thursday.Cor...

OTTAWA — As the federal party leaders are promising billions in new spending on the campaign trail, a look at their office expense accounts show what the taxpayers are spending pennies on.Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s office charged the taxpaye...

NANAIMO, B.C. — A British Columbia Supreme Court judge suggested Thursday he will consider new options to address the future of an injunction against blockades by people opposed to logging old-growth trees on part of Vancouver Island.Justice Dougla...

WINNIPEG — Manitobans will have a female premier for the first time.Shelly Glover, a former Winnipeg police officer and one-time Conservative member of Parliament, and Heather Stefanson, a former Manitoba health minister, are the official candidate...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The prosecutor tasked with examining the U.S. government's investigation into Russian election interference charged a prominent cybersecurity lawyer on Thursday with making a false statement to the FBI.The case against the attorne...

ANACLA — This week marked the two-year anniversary of the bus crash that killed two university students who were traveling to the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre on an annual field trip. On Sept. 13, 2019, a chartered bus carrying 45 students a...

MICHIGAN LAWMAKER-ABUSE ALLEGATIONSMichigan lawmaker: Allegations are 'character assassination'LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan lawmaker who's accused of threatening a legislator over their past romantic relationship is denying her allegations. Rep...

VANCOUVER — The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says home sales have plateaued after reaching record highs in March. In its third-quarter housing overview for 2021, it said the number of homes listed for sale in Metro Vancouver has falle...

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. — Canadian National Railway Co. has been fined $2.5 million for spraying pesticides along a rail corridor that runs along the Skeena River in British Columbia.Environment and Climate Change Canada says the railway pleaded guilty...

REGINA — Saskatchewan is bringing in a proof of vaccination policy to try to increase the number of people immunized against COVID-19 and to decrease pressures on hospitals. The policy is to come into effect Oct. 1, and will apply to nightclubs, ba...

Victoria police seized what they described as a “realistic” replica submachine-gun-style firearm Wednesday afternoon after a resident reported spotting it in a shopping bag outside a multi-unit residential building. The firearm was hung from ...

Saanich police are investigating a sexual assault on a B.C. Transit bus last week. Police said the incident happened Sept. 10 on the No. 39 bus after it left the University of Victoria Exchange about 1:40 p.m. They said a suspect approached a wom...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — A Missouri officer who graduated from the police academy two months ago was shot and killed by a man being sought on burglary and theft charges, authorities said. The suspect also died in a shootout with officers.Independence Of...