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 Jan. 1 ...What we are watching in Canada ...Alberta's Opposition NDP is calling for Municipal Af...

Tucked away in three university libraries across Canada are first edition copies of a book that experts say contains the building blocks of science. Prof. Mordechai Feingold of the California Institute of Technology and Andrej Svorencik of the Univer...

Crowds are discouraged from gathering as people plunge into icy Canadian waters to ring in 2021, but the pandemic hasn’t frozen the charitable spirit behind the annual events.Organizers of "polar swims" across the country are inviting people to par...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopian security forces killed more than 75 people and injured nearly 200 during deadly ethnic unrest in June and July following the killing of a popular singer, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said Friday.The commission's ...

MIAMI — Florida health authorities late Thursday reported finding evidence of the latest U.S. case of the new and apparently more contagious coronavirus strain first seen in England, saying it was detected in a man with no recent travel history.The...

WINNIPEG — Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard has applied for bail, two weeks after his arrest in Winnipeg under the Extradition Act following his indictment in the United States on charges that he used his influence to traffic women and girls for...

TOKYO — Japan's Emperor Naruhito expressed gratitude to medical professionals and acknowledged the hardship caused by the coronavirus in a New Year's Day message shared by video instead of the usual public speech in front of large crowds at the pal...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un thanked the public for their trust and support "in the difficult times" and wished them happiness and good health in his first New Year’s Day cards sent to his people.Kim usually gives a...

Two flights to Comox and one to Victoria have been added to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control’s list of flights carrying a passenger with a confirmed case of COVID-19.Passengers on WestJet flight 3315 on Dec. 23 from Calgary to Comox are advised ...

VICTORIA — British Columbia's provincial health officer is urging people to start 2021 by following COVID-19 precautions to prevent a surge in cases similar to those in other jurisdictions.Dr. Bonnie Henry says persistence under adversity during 20...

Traditional New Year’s Day events in Greater Victoria, like levees and polar bear swims, are not taking place to ring in 2021 while the province is under restrictions that ban all gatherings indoors and outside to prevent COVID-19 transmission. ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Police in Minneapolis on Thursday released body-camera video from a traffic stop one night earlier that ended with a man shot dead, an extraordinarily quick move aimed at stemming public anger over the city's first police-involved dea...

British Columbians can start 2021 on the right foot by staying small and staying local for their New Year’s Eve celebrations, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said during the last COVID-19 update of the year. Henry said 2020 has been ...

SAN DIEGO — President Donald Trump on Thursday extended pandemic-related bans on green cards and work visas to large groups of applicants through March 31, while a federal appeals court sided with him on a rule that requires new immigrants to have ...

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is praising federal courts nationwide for their flexibility in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, acknowledging in his annual year-end report the role technology has played in keeping courts r...

WASHINGTON — Congress is ending a chaotic session, a two-year political firestorm that started with the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, was riven by impeachment and a pandemic, and now closes with a rare rebuff by Republicans o...

NEW YORK — Gone were the revelry and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds that typify Times Square on New Year's Eve, replaced by empty streets and an eerie quiet as the final moments of 2020 ticked away.This was New Year's Eve in the age of COVID-19.Crowd ...

LAS VEGAS — Phyllis McGuire, the last surviving member of the three singing McGuire Sisters who topped the charts with several hits in the 1950s, has died. She was 89.The lead singer and younger sister of Dorothy and Christine McGuire died on Tuesd...

Eight people were taken to hospital, including one who was airlifted in critical condition, after an apartment fire broke out in Duncan Thursday afternoon.Paramedics treated multiple people outside the Lewis Street apartment building, before taking s...

Environment Canada has issued rain and wind warnings for parts of Vancouver Island.A wind warning is in effect from Courtenay to Campbell River and Nanoose Bay to Fanny Bay with a storm system expected to arrive Thursday night.Winds will peak Friday ...