TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $11.8 million jackpot in Saturday night's Lotto 649 draw.However, the draw's guaranteed $1 million prize went to a lottery player in Ontario.The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Aug. 11 will be an ...

Rainfall has provided some relief for wildfire crews in the Cowichan Valley, B.C. Wildfire Service information officer Dorthe Jakobsen said Saturday.Crews are continuing to work a fire in the Mount Prevost area at Holyoak Creek, about 13 kilometres n...

RICHMOND, B.C. — Police in British Columbia's Lower Mainland say a man is dead after what appears to be a targeted shooting. Richmond RCMP say officers responded to a public report of an unresponsive man found in a ditch shortly after 9:30 a.m. on ...

WINNIPEG — Police in Winnipeg say a man has been arrested after numerous trees were cut down along a city boulevard early Saturday to make room for a house that was being moved out of the city.Traffic officers were helping with the move along Robli...

MONTREAL — The Montreal First Peoples' Festival is back until Aug. 11 at the Place des Festivals and other locations in the city, a year after most Indigenous events such as powwows were put off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 31st edition is sho...

MONTREAL — Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole announced plans Saturday to financially support the creation of a Quebec research and development centre on food self-sufficiency.He announced his intention at a stop at a farm in Sainte-Hyacinthe, southe...

Nanaimo RCMP seized what they believed are stolen tools after a report of a parked vehicle with a woman who appeared to be slumped over in the driver’s seat.They were called to the scene in south Nanaimo about 7 a.m. June 26. Officers woke the woma...

VERNON, B.C. — An aggressive fire that's forced thousands out of their homes around a now-closed stretch of Highway 97 in the southern Interior has grown to an estimated 550-square kilometres in size, British Columbia's wildfire service said Saturd...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Republican Party voted overwhelmingly Saturday not to endorse any candidate in the looming recall election that could remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office, sidestepping a potentially nasty fight over a G...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Democrats still refused to return to the state Capitol on Saturday as Gov. Greg Abbott began a third attempt at passing new election laws, prolonging a monthslong standoff that ramped up in July when dozens of Democratic ...

VANCOUVER — The endangered southern resident killer whale population may have suffered more loss with one of the orcas presumed dead, says an expert. The orca, K-21, was seen in the last week of July and photos showed that it seemed to be wasting a...

A COVID outbreak at a ­Campbell River care facility is the kind of wake-up call the province needs to make vaccinations mandatory for all staff working in long-term care, according to the head of the B.C. Care Providers’ Association. Terry Lak...

I can’t think of Monte Lake without thinking of the log boom. Wouldn’t want to slip between the logs, my mother said as we drove past. You might not find your way back up. It was one of those comments that sticks with a boy. Also Monte Lake...

The Friends of Beacon Hill Park Society is accusing the City of Victoria of trying to prevent it from adequately arguing its case in court that sheltering in the park should not be allowed. Roy Fletcher, president of the society, said the group h...

Three Manitoba men had to be rescued from the summit of the Golden Hinde, the Island’s ­tallest mountain, after they were too exhausted from the ­2,195-metre climb to get back. “They hadn’t researched the mountain particularly well and th...

The province has reached out to a family whose developmentally challenged relative was found to have been living in a Campbell River house with the body of his deceased caregiver. Because the house was not a licensed or registered facility, no mo...

A book drive to raise funds for school libraries and literacy work will take place Sunday at the Victoria Curling Club at 1952 Quadra St. It has been organized by the Times Colonist Literacy Society, and will take the place of the usual book driv...

Rick Fall spent every day of the last three and a half months running roughly the equivalent of a full marathon as he trekked from British Columbia to Ontario. The 61-year-old has been making the gruelling journey to raise funds for young cancer pati...

The U.S. is now averaging 100,000 new COVID-19 infections a day, returning to a milestone last seen during the winter surge in yet another bleak reminder of how quickly the delta variant has spread through the country.The U.S. was averaging about 11,...

TORONTO — A ticket holder from the Prairies won Friday's $34 million Lotto Max jackpot.The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Aug. 10 will be an estimated $10 million.