Vancouver Island is the vote-by-mail capital of Canada — which means we might not know the results of some races on Monday night. Nowhere else in the country have as many voters asked for “special” ballot kits. Some of those packages have g...

LONDON, Ont. — Hoisting signs and chanting slogans denouncing sexual violence, hundreds of students walked out of classes at Western University on Friday to demand a change in what they described as a “toxic” campus culture. The large gathe...

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $55 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw.There were also four Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each up for grabs, and one of them was won by a ticket holder in Ontario.The jackpot for the next...

NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida said they are working with the FBI to find 23-year-old Brian Laundrie, whose girlfriend disappeared during a cross-country trek in a converted van.North Port police said late Friday that Laundrie's parents ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Board members overseeing Arizona’s most populous county reached an agreement Friday evening with the Republican-controlled state Senate that will end a standoff over a Senate demand that they hand over computer routers for use in a...

Times Colonist Calls came into Oak Bay police on Friday afternoon of a man swinging an axe while riding a bicycle near Beach Drive and Somass Drive.When officers found the man, it turned out he was just on his way to do some outdoor work.“He was en...

Stormy weather caused multiple power outages on Vancouver Island on Friday.More than 1,200 customers on the east end of South Shore Road in Lake Cowichan lost power late Friday afternoon. B.C. Hydro did not have an immediate cause for the outage. On ...

The downpour on Friday provided a reminder that cooler wetter weather is arriving on Vancouver Island. Rain continued on and off through the day Friday, with Environment Canada predicting a 60 per cent chance of showers today and a 30 per cent ch...

DENVER (AP) — A former high school student convicted of killing one student and injuring eight others in a 2019 attack on a Denver-area school has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Devon Erickson was sentenced Friday after victims an...

VANCOUVER — Premier John Horgan says the province is willing to help Alberta when it comes to battling COVID-19, but the priority is on ensuring hospitals in British Columbia don't become overwhelmed.Horgan says he's spoken to Alberta Premier Jason...

Victoria police say they intend to use temporary cameras to ensure public safety during planned demonstrations over the weekend.A “freedom rally” protesting vaccine cards is planned for the legislature lawn Saturday from 12 to 3 p.m.VicPD often d...

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — A US official says the Biden administration is planning "massive movements" of Haitian migrants in a small Texas border town on flights to Haiti starting Sunday.Plans have yet to be finalized, but officials are considering fiv...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who fought for independence from France in the 1950s and 1960s and was ousted amid pro-democracy protests in 2019 after 20 years in power, has died at age 84, state television ...

Island Health region reported 102 new COVID-19 cases on Friday — the highest single-day count in the health region since the pandemic began. The previous high of 90 new cases in one day was reached earlier this month. The Island region now has ...

OTTAWA — Federal lawyers argue Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin's lawsuit over his removal as head of Canada's vaccine distribution campaign is now moot because the job no longer exists.In a newly filed Federal Court submission, government lawyers say that si...

Pentagon reverses itself, calls deadly Kabul strike an errorWASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon retreated from its defense of a drone strike that killed multiple civilians in Afghanistan last month, announcing Friday that a review revealed that only civ...

CHARLOTTETOWN — When Joe Van Den Bremt first floated the idea of producing cultured mussels on P.E.I. in the 1970s, the local fishermen laughed at him."They were all telling me, 'We use that stuff for fertilizer,'" he said in 2017. "'Nobody is goin...

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Odette formed off the mid-Atlantic coast Friday and is expected to weaken Saturday night as it approaches eastern Canada.Odette was traveling to the northeast at 15 mph (24 kph) Friday evening and was located about 225 m...

Anti-logging protesters at Fairy Creek should leave and allow discussions to continue between stakeholders on how to move forward on forestry issues, Premier John Horgan told delegates at the Union of BC Municipalities as their annual convention wr...

Nurses rallied in front of the premier’s constituency office in Langford Friday to send the message that they are short-staffed, exhausted, overworked, at risk of violence and stressed due to relentless pressures that started before the pandemic.Ab...