The Oak Bay Beach Hotel has been named the top hotel in Canada and No. 19 worldwide according to the readers of Condé Nast Traveler magazine.The annual readers’ poll, that gets hundreds of thousands responses each year, noted the hotel is inspire...

EDMONTON — This Thanksgiving will be a tough one for Carol Charles and her family.The 50-year-old from Regina usually travels to her younger sister’s house in Edmonton for the holiday.But Jennifer Rosebluff-Thomas died of COVID-19 last month. She...

Full vaccination will be required by the end of October for most air- and rail-travel passengers and employees, and for many federal public servants, the Canadian government announced Wednesday. Anyone over the age of 12 who plans to hop aboard a...

VicPD is so desperate to put cops on the street that it has been reduced to begging Saanich officers to fill its shifts. So, it wasn’t really a surprise Wednesday when the Victoria department announced it’s recalling all seven of its ­office...

Health Canada has issued a recall for two lots of Novo-Gesic Forte Acetaminophen tablets distributed by Teva Canada because of a labelling error that could result in a person exceeding the maximum daily dosage for acetaminophen.The 500 mg tablets wer...

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful earthquake collapsed at least one coal mine and dozens of mud houses in southwest Pakistan early Thursday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 200, an official said. The death toll was expected to ri...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., calling it an "offensive deprivation" of a constitutional right by banning most abortions in the nation's second-most populous...

Victoria police were searching Wednesday for a 49-year-old accused drug trafficker after he failed to appear in court. Thomas McDonald faces charges including trafficking fentanyl to at-risk people, theft and dangerous operation of a motor vehicl...

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Suspended Dallas offensive lineman La'el Collins sued the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell on Wednesday, seeking an injunction to stop the remaining two games of a five-game ban over substance-abuse violations.Lawyers for Col...

VICTORIA — British Columbia has recorded 752 more cases of COVID-19 as nearly 82 per cent of eligible residents aged 12 and up have now been fully vaccinated.The province says nine more people have died, for a total of 1,992 deaths from the virus.I...

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — The husband of a slain social media star killed himself in a Florida home when authorities arrived to arrest him on charges in connection with the death of his wife last year in Texas, U.S. Marshals and police say.A Houston ...

Saanich police and officers with the Integrated Canine Service were searching Wednesday for a man wanted on a mental-health warrant who they say poses a danger to himself and others. Robert Gray was the subject of a missing-person alert from Sidn...

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba Nurses Union has reached a tentative contract agreement with the province more than four years after the last deal expired.The union says it will not comment until the proposed deal is ratified, but confirmed a post on socia...

WINNIPEG — A judge has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for "a vicious and unprovoked" hammer attack on a teenager.Jerry Kipling, 31, was found guilty earlier this year in the 2020 attack that left the 15-year-old Winnipeg boy with the hammer'...

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's highest court has concluded there is systemic discrimination in the province against people with disabilities who are seeking services and housing in the community.In a landmark decision issued Wednesday, the Nova Scotia Cou...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test will be mandatory for people travelling by air and rail by the end of October. By the end of November, all travellers will need to be vaccinated. Here's...

The NBA has agreed to not randomly test players for marijuana this season, a continuation of the policy that was put in place last year for the COVID-19 "restart bubble" and has remained since.Drug testing will continue for things such as human growt...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Edging back from a perilous standoff, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday told Democrats he would allow an emergency debt limit extension into December, offering a potential path to avoid a federal default.A proc...

The sale of about three hectares of land on the grounds of Lansdowne Middle School for a new French school has been approved. The Greater Victoria School Board is selling the land to the Conseil scolaire francophone de la Columbie-Britannique —...

ZURICH (AP) — President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to hold a virtual working meeting before year’s end, according to a senior Biden administration official.The agreement for a more formal leaders’ meeting came as White...