With a continuing ban on leisure travel to the U.S., COVID-testing hassles for those travelling by air and a build-up of cabin fever — not to mention the ability to work from pretty much anywhere — interest in recreational vehicles has hit an all...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Sept. 28 ...What we are watching in Canada ...More than 24 hours after an incident at a northern...

VICTORIA — Six candidates seeking to become the next leader of the British Columbia Liberal Party will face each other tonight in the campaign's first debate.The Liberal members will elect a new leader Feb. 5 to replace former leader Andrew Wilkins...

WINNIPEG — A jury in Winnipeg is expected to hear closing arguments today in the murder trial for a man accused of fatally stabbing a three-year-old boy in 2019.Daniel Jensen, who is 34, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Hunter S...

A powerful explosion in an apartment building in the Swedish city of Goteborg on Tuesday injured up to 20 people, three of them seriously, and forced the evacuation of hundreds of people, police and rescue workers said.According to the Swedish news a...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said Monday his office would dismiss roughly 60,000 marijuana convictions. Under the previous DA, Jackie Lacey, the office moved last year to dump 66,000 pot convictions that to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators blocked a bill Monday night to keep the government operating and allow federal borrowing, but Democrats aiming to avert a shutdown pledged to try again — at the same time pressing ahead on President Joe Biden...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The province's police watchdog is investigating after a collision between a pickup truck and motorcycle that left one man dead late Sunday evening in Kamloops, B.C.RCMP say in a news release that initial investigation suggests the ...

The province reported 2,239 new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend, including 230 in Island Health, which also saw three new deaths. That’s up from the 1,692 new cases reported the previous weekend, including 204 new cases in Island Health repo...

KELOWNA, B.C. — A former British Columbia social worker accused of stealing money from foster children under his care has pleaded guilty in a Kelowna court.The BC Prosecution Service says Robert Riley Saunders pleaded guilty to fraud over $5,000, b...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a short-range missile into the sea early Tuesday, its neighboring countries said, in the latest weapon tests by North Korea that has raised questions about the sincerity of its recent offer for talks with...

NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's largest school district can immediately impose a vaccine mandate on its teachers and other workers, after all, a federal appeals panel decided Monday.The three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Man...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas district attorney has rejected a felony sexual assault charge filed earlier this year by Austin police against the son of former cyclist Lance Armstrong. Luke Armstrong was charged in April related to an incident in 201...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of families sickened and forced from their Los Angeles homes after the nation’s largest-known natural gas leak have reached a $1.8 billion settlement with a utility, attorneys said Monday. The settlement with Southern...

VANCOUVER — Colette Trudeau learned the truth about her family's heritage at age eight, and that's when she began to understand that pretending to be French-Canadian was a way for her great-grandparents to keep their children from being taken away ...

ATLANTA (AP) — A herd of goats brought in to clear weeds got loose Monday, briefly becoming a thorn in the side of Atlanta's tony Buckhead neighborhood.Atlanta police responded after a driver called to report the goats were wandering in the road, n...

VANCOUVER — The B.C. government is teaming up with community partners, spending millions to get more women and minorities into the technology sector. The government, Crown agency Innovate B.C., the Information and Communications Technology Council ...

WINNIPEG — Two men have been charged with stealing money from a Progressive Conservative constituency association in Manitoba.Party spokesman Keith Stewart says a significant amount of money may have been misappropriated from the Waverley constitue...

A man was arrested for impaired driving after he crashed his motorcycle into a hedge in the 400 block of King George Terrace Oak Bay early Saturday, then left the scene in a taxi. Witnesses told Oak Bay police officers who responded to the 3:10 a...

A community exchange zone has been set up in front of the RCMP station in Nanaimo to provide a safe meeting space for people meeting strangers to buy or sell items advertised online, or parents exchanging custody of children. The exchange zone at...