AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans advanced new voting restrictions Thursday night after months of protests by Democrats, who after returning from a 38-day walkout are now all but out of ways to stop a bill that includes a ban on drive-thru vot...

Nurses gathered at the legislature Thursday to describe chronic staffing shortages and overwhelming workloads that, they say, is leading to inadequate care for their patients. “I’d be terrified to be hospitalized right now. It’s awful,” s...

WINNIPEG — A third person has declared their intention to run to become Manitoba's next Progressive Conservative leader and premier.Shannon Martin, who was first elected to the legislature in 2014, says the government has ignored the party grassroo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's conservative majority is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary ban that was put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic.Roughly...

VICTORIA — British Columbia has reported 724 new cases of COVID-19 and two more deaths, pushing the total number of fatalities to 1,804 since the pandemic began. Active infections have climbed to 5,640, including 149 people who are hospitalized, of...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government said Thursday it is shutting down an embattled federal jail in New York City after a slew of problems that came to light following disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide there two years ago.The federal B...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers will wait until next year to consider decriminalizing psychedelics, with the bill's author saying Thursday that he will keep working to persuade the public and legislators that it's a good idea.The bil...

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Ida formed in the Caribbean on Thursday and forecasters said its track was aimed at the U.S. Gulf Coast, prompting Louisiana's governor to declare a state of emergency and forecasters to announce a hurricane watch for Ne...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen have released some of the children kidnapped from a school in northern Nigeria back in May, some of whom were as young as 5 years old, the school's head teacher said late Thursday.Abubakar Garba Alhassan told The Associ...

TORONTO — A man who pleaded guilty to the terror-related killing of a Toronto woman with a hammer was sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole eligibility for 25 years.It marked the first conviction under a Criminal Code provision that deems m...

Saanich police received a report of a cougar sighting about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday near the entrance to Bow Park. The animal was last seen running into bushes off Malton Avenue, which runs parallel to Braefoot Road, after a resident approached. Co...

North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP are investigating a fire on Wednesday night that sent several residents of a multi-unit building in Duncan to hospital. Police were called for assistance about 11 p.m. by the North Cowichan Fire Department. Fire crews a...

Downed power lines on Store Street cut power to businesses in Victoria’s Chinatown and surrounding areas, forcing them to close Thursday morning. B.C. Hydro said power went out to 387 customers around 9:30 a.m. after a motor vehicle accident. C...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden vowed Thursday to complete the evacuation of American citizens and others from Afghanistan despite the day's deadly suicide bomb attack at the Kabul airport. He promised to avenge the deaths of 13 U.S. service ...

MILLBROOK, N.S. — A Nova Scotia Indigenous rights group is in the process of creating a mark of authenticity for art and tourism experiences created and owned by the Mi’kmaq community.The Mi’kmaq Rights Initiative in Millbrook, N.S., says it ho...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A bill legalizing marijuana for medical use in North Carolina and developing a system to grow and sell it cleared two more legislative hurdles this week in the Senate.The Senate Health Care Committee voted for the measure on Th...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s legislature ordered the closure of 15 more non-governmental organizations Thursday, bringing to 45 the number whose permits to operate in the country have been cancelled in the last month. The groups affected...

Vancouver police say they are searching for the owner of thousands of dollars of dental gold recovered earlier this year during a stolen-property investigation.They say the $12,000 worth of dental gold including fillings, caps and bridges was recover...

FREDERICTON — Licensed cannabis producers in New Brunswick now have the option to sell their products on-site at their facilities. The FarmGate program will increase visibility for local licensed producers and create potential tourism opportunities...

A Canadian woman stuck in Afghanistan with her parents says she's terrified she will die before she is able to return to her Ontario home and is blaming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.Zak, who asked her full name not be revealed due to safety concerns...