Volunteers with the Royal Marine Search and Rescue Station 39 in Port Alberni rescued a man who fell off a fishing vessel just after midnight early Saturday.The fishing boat had broken down in the Alberni Inlet near China Creek and the man had been i...

WHITEHORSE — Yukon is reporting 44 new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend, mostly in Whitehorse. The diagnoses bring the total number of active cases in the territory to 124. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brendan Hanley says COVID-19 is now being "wide...

WINNIPEG — Early goals by Moses Dwyer and Austin Ricci gave Valour FC a 2-0 victory over defending Canadian Premier League champions Forge FC at Winnipeg's IG Field in the first game of the season for both teams.Dwyer scored from the penalty spot i...

A Sooke man brandishing a knife and angry over having no power in his home has been arrested after allegedly threatening a crew installing a power pole near his property.Sooke RCMP said the man had an 11-inch knife and was waving it around in a threa...

MELVILLE, SASKATCHEWAN — A Saskatchewan city north of the Cowessess First Nation has postponed its Canada Day parade and fireworks following news last week that hundreds of unmarked graves were identified on land at the site of a former residential...

Emergency responders used a helicopter to rescue two hikers off a mountain in the Alberni-Clayoquot region Sunday morning.West Coast Search and Rescue Society received an SOS from an emergency device late Saturday from the hikers on a steep, snow-cov...

OTTAWA — Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna has decided not to seek re-election.Her surprise decision opens up some prime political real estate that could become a launching pad for former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney should he decide...

Greater Victoria smashed its all-time temperature record Sunday as the region sweltered in an unprecedented heat wave. The temperature hit 37.5 C at 6 p.m. at Victoria International Airport. It was the hottest day ever recorded for the capital re...

PARIS (AP) — Mainstream candidates delivered a stinging setback to France’s far right in regional elections on Sunday, thwarting its hopes of winning control of a region for the first time and slowing its momentum ahead of the presidential contes...

OTTAWA — The Jewish Federation of Ottawa says beloved Ottawa Rabbi Reuven Bulka has died at the age of 77.He died Sunday morning in New York City where he had moved to spend time with his five children after being diagnosed with advanced stage panc...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two Saudi women’s rights campaigners have been released from prison, three years after a sweeping crackdown by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman targeting female activists who'd peacefully advocated for greater f...

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Families of the missing visited the scene of the Florida condo building collapse Sunday as rescuers kept digging through the mound of rubble and clinging to hope that someone could yet be alive somewhere under the broken concr...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):5 p.m.Saskatchewan is reporting 48 new COVID-19 cases and no additional deaths.The province's daily pandemic update says there are currently 549 active infections.That's a further...

At least four Canadians from three different families are unaccounted for after the deadly collapse of a Miami-area condo building, the federal government said Sunday as the official death toll in the incident rose to nine. Global Affairs Canada had ...

Bob Hilbig's crisis of confidence in the Roman Catholic Church isn't his first reckoning with the institution that shaped his childhood. It's not even his second.But the discovery over the past month of what's believed to be nearly 1,000 bodies in un...

EDMONTON — Every time Sana Chaudhry's daughter sees her father getting up to pray, the two-year-old toddler picks up a scarf and waddles behind him to the prayer mat.As she watches her little girl wrap the hijab around her head, Chaudhry says she p...

Good morning, class. As the school year ends, please note that studies warn the “summer slide” — that is, the loss of knowledge during vacation — typically costs students a month’s worth of education. Kids leave school at the end of Jun...

For the second year in a row, COVID-19 restrictions are putting a damper on Canada Day celebrations. Some communities are also choosing to make July 1 a day of reflection after the May discovery of what appears to be unmarked graves of 215 childr...

Researchers are calling it the “humpback comeback.” More than century after commercial whaling wiped out humpback whales from inland waters around Vancouver Island, the big mammals are showing a significant resurgence. Since a humpback was ...

The Times Colonist will run a full page, pullout flag again for Canada Day this year. But it will be the Canadian Indigenous Flag, the standard designed by Curtis Wilson of the Wei Wai Kum First Nation near Campbell River, who called his now famo...