Salish Sea Industrial Services is preparing to head north to ­Gabriola Island, where over ­several days it will use a massive crane to hoist four derelict boats out of the water and onto the deck of a 145-foot barge. Those vessels will be haule...

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 Feb. 17 ...What we are watching in Canada ...Canada is expected to face pressure this week to re...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 33,289 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,306,784 doses given. The provinces have administered doses ...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021.There are 831,577 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 831,577 confirmed cases (35,669 active, 774,511 resolved, 21,397 deaths).*The total case count ...

OTTAWA — The federal government owes Canadian families in three provinces more than $200 million after underestimating how much it would raise from the carbon tax during the first year of the program. Finance Canada thought the new price on polluti...

VANCOUVER — The chief justice of British Columbia's Supreme Court is set to deliver his decision today over whether to grant the province an injunction against three Fraser Valley churches flouting COVID-19 rules that prohibit in-person services.Th...

OTTAWA — Canada is expected to face pressure this week to reverse a recent drawdown of troops from Iraq as the NATO military alliance prepares to expand its presence in the country.The alliance has persistent concerns about Islamic State extremists...

VICTORIA — The first Black person elected in British Columbia was an American abolitionist and entrepreneur who won a Victoria city council seat in 1866 and played a role in Confederation. In 1858, about 800 Black people left San Francisco for ...

TOKYO — Months after other major economies, Japan began giving the first coronavirus vaccines to front-line health workers Wednesday. Many are wondering if the campaign will reach enough people, and in time, to save a Summer Olympics already delaye...

Police are looking for anyone who may have witnessed a fatal hit-and-run in Chemainus on Sunday night. North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP say a male pedestrian was struck and killed in the 9900-block of Chemainus Road about 7:30 p.m. The driver fled th...

WINNIPEG — Calle Rosen scored twice, Nick Robertson scored his first American Hockey League goal as part of a four-goal second period, and the Toronto Marlies cruised to a 6-2 win over the Manitoba Moose on Tuesday.Kenny Agostino, Kristins Rubins, ...

More than a quarter of the almost 16,000 Indigenous people in B.C. who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 are on Vancouver Island. Sixteen rural and remote First Nations communities on the Island — including some with outbreaks — have rece...

A 3.6-magnitude earthquake was recorded off the west coast of Vancouver Island about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Natural Resources Canada said the quake was located 535 kilometres west of Victoria and 266 kilometres west southwest of Port Alice. The qua...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 33,289 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,306,784 doses given. The provinces have administered dose...

WASHINGTON — In the most caustic sign yet of deepening GOP divisions, former President Donald Trump blistered Mitch McConnell as a "political hack" on Tuesday, days after the Senate’s top Republican denounced him as the inciter of U.S. Capitol at...

NEW ORLEANS — Music blared from the courtyard of a French Quarter restaurant on Mardi Gras morning but nobody was there to hear it until Tom Gibson and Sheila Wheeler of Philadelphia walked out of their hotel’s nearly empty lobby."We were expecti...

A preliminary hearing will be held in November for the man accused of the first-degree murder of a Nanaimo teen. Sixteen-year-old Makayla Chang disappeared in March 2017. Her body was found two months later. Steven Michael Bacon has pleaded not...

Langford residents are getting nearly 40 acres of new parkland that will have forested trails and a designated rock-climbing area. The city is expected to receive the land in the coming weeks as part of its agreement with the Westhills Land Corpo...

After weeks of delays, the Pfizer vaccine is being delivered again, allowing immunizations to resume for those most at risk, such as residents in long-term care, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Tuesday. In B.C. so far, 171,755 dos...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021.There are 831,577 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 831,577 confirmed cases (35,669 active, 774,511 resolved, 21,397 deaths).*The total case count...