VANCOUVER — A slowdown in the rate that British Columbians receiving their first dose of COVID-19 vaccinations leaves a significant gap for variants of the virus to take hold, even as officials hit new milestones for vaccination rates, according ...

The Snowbirds will be flying over Vancouver Island on Monday as part of Operation Inspiration. The flight comes one day after the CF-18 Demonstration Team conducted a flypast over Nanaimo, Parksville Tofino and Greater Victoria on Sunday. Monda...

WINNIPEG — Two goals by Austin Ricci and a league-leading sixth clean sheet for Jonathan Sirois gave Valour FC a 3-0 victory over York United FC in Canadian Premier League play Sunday.Valour (6-1-0) have won three in a row as they extended their le...

WINNIPEG — Two Indigenous men have quit their positions on Manitoba economic development boards in the wake of controversial remarks by Premier Brian Pallister and a cabinet minister.The resignations of Jamie Wilson and Darrell Brown form the lates...

OTTAWA — Annamie Paul is no longer staring down the barrel of a booting from her perch atop the Green party.Party executives have called off a non-confidence vote that was slated for Tuesday and could have led to the leader's ouster, according to t...

VICTORIA — British Columbia's government says accommodations for wildfire evacuees are filling up as the flames and smoke from numerous blazes spread, forcing more people from their homes and contributing to an eerie, acrid haze that's blanketing c...

PARIS — Tadej Pogacar took the yellow jersey to Paris to win his second straight Tour de France on Sunday after a grueling three-week odyssey that at times he made look like a recreational ride.Pogacar’s repeat success at cycling’s biggest even...

WICHITA, Kan. — Authorities in south-central Kansas seized 89 marijuana plans and several bags of the drug during the recent search of a property northeast of El Dorado.The Butler County Sheriff's office said the 56 pounds of marijuana worth roughl...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities in south-central Kansas seized 89 marijuana plans and several bags of the drug during the recent search of a property northeast of El Dorado.The Butler County Sheriff's office said the 56 pounds of marijuana worth r...

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro left a hospital on Sunday after being treated there since last week for an intestinal obstruction.Bolsonaro, who was admitted Wednesday to the Vila Nova Star Hospital in Sao Paulo because of abd...

By putting one foot in front of the other, sometimes slowly and sometimes with quicker strides, Bilal Malik says he desperately hopes the government will listen to what he has to say.The 36-year-old is nearing the end of a roughly 15-day, 380-kilomet...

The Tseshaht First Nation in Port Alberni says it plans to start investigating this coming week whether there are unmarked graves on land around the former Alberni Indian Residential School. A project co-ordinator will be hired, along with a comp...

So, Buck and I are cruising through Oak Bay when suddenly there’s this super-loud scream, like Yoko Ono stubbing her toe while singing in the shower. “Maybe somebody just saw their property tax notice,” said Buck. No, it turned out to be ...

Vancouver Island fish and forests are in greater peril than ever as the B.C. government issues widespread drought warnings after a record-breaking heat wave and an explosion of wildfires across the province. Drought is impacting much of southern ...

Jeanette Harper has longed to freely visit with her 90-year-old mum — without masks, schedules or time limits — and she’ll be able to Monday as most pandemic restrictions in long-term care and assisted living homes are lifted. “I’m real...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — OPEC and allied nations agreed Sunday to raise the production limits imposed on five countries next year and boost their production by 2 million barrels per day by the end of this year, ending a dispute that roiled oil...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — OPEC and allied nations agreed Sunday to raise the production limits imposed on five countries next year and boost their production by 2 million barrels per day by the end of this year, ending a dispute that roile...

OTTAWA — Harvard University microbiology student Indumathi Prakash was just seven years old when a tick bite near her home in Massachusetts gave her Lyme disease and left her to spend most of her childhood battling rheumatoid arthritis. Now Prakash...

VANCOUVER — Wildfire experts say British Columbia must spark far more prescribed burns, akin to how Indigenous communities have managed forests, to mitigate the risk of huge blazes. "We're not burning anywhere near as much as we should," saidfire e...

TORONTO — A ticket holder in Quebec won Saturday night's $6 million Lotto 649 jackpot.The draw's guaranteed $1 million prize also went to a lottery player in Quebec.The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on July 21 will be an estimated $5 million.