Five sunken boats and big pieces of three others were pulled from the depths around Oak Bay Marina over the weekend — drawing cheers from crowds on the docks and shore as some of the wreckage emerged.The three-day job by divers and crews aboard two...

Ladysmith is pulling the plug on its popular Festival of Lights activities this year, but the lights that draw so many visitors to the town will shine on. The society that operates the Christmas-lighting spectacle said due to the risks relating t...

About 2,000 homes on the Saanich Peninsula were without power Sunday afternoon. B.C. Hydro said crews have been dispatched to fix the outage, which is affecting parts of North and Central Saanich, including Brentwood Bay and Saanichton. The pow...

A company formerly contracted to build a wastewater treatment plant in North Vancouver, B.C., calls the deal's cancellation "regrettable, unnecessary," and against the community's interests. The Metro Vancouver Regional District announced Friday that...

A Canadian was among 17 missionaries allegedly kidnapped in Haiti on Saturday, Christian Aid Ministries said in a statement on its website. The U.S.-based mission organization said Sunday that five children are also believed to be in the group. The o...

OTTAWA — Gov. Gen. Mary May Simon arrives Sunday in Berlin to begin her first international visit on behalf of Canada in the German capital. May Simon's four-day state visit will include a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel, and she will represe...

MONTREAL — The World March of Women's fifth international action wrapped up with events in Quebec on Sunday, with organizers demanding the provincial government better protect Indigenous women. The Montreal coalition of the World March for Women sa...

Police were called to deal with large, rowdy homecoming parties Saturday near Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., and Acadia University in Wolfville, N.S.In Kingston, local police confirmed that an officer was taken to hospital after projectiles we...

MONTREAL — A 20-year-old man died early Sunday morning when he was struck by a car on a highway, moments after stepping out of his vehicle in Laval, north of Montreal. Laval police say the man left the vehicle to urinate after it stopped on the edg...

ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — Bill Clinton arrived Sunday at his home in New York to continue recovering from an infection that left him in treatment for six days at a Southern California hospital, officials said.The former president left the University of...

A senior military commander in Western Canada says he doesn't expect much opposition from Canadian Forces personnel over mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations.Ottawa is requiring federal employees, including members of the military, be fully vaccinated by ...

EDMONTON — Albertans will cast ballots Monday in a referendum that is technically about rejecting equalization but has morphed into more of a Prairie festivus airing of grievances."(This) is not about partisan politics," Premier Jason Kenney has sa...

Wendy Hamer enjoys her life at Nigel House, where she has lived for the past 2 1/2 years. One of her specialties is knitting, which she learned from a staff member. “I’ve knitted about 20 tuques in the last year and I’ve been selling them...

Hey, remember August when we were all wetting ourselves (or not) over the lack of rain? Good times, good times. Victoria dodged a bullet Saturday. Most of Vancouver Island was told to brace for an “atmospheric river” — not just rain, but a ...

The seasonal youth shelter aptly named Out of the Rain opened its doors Friday night, as the rain started to fall. Operated by Beacon Community Services, the home on a quiet street bordering the Fernwood and Jubilee neighbourhoods will operate th...

A local driving school has installed cameras in all its vehicles in the wake of sexual-assault allegations against the owner of another driving school. DriveWise B.C. has put cameras in its 21 cars at a cost of about $60 per car per month, said c...

Oak Bay residents would like to see a mix of health-care services on the former Oak Bay Lodge property. Capital Regional Hospital District representatives visited Oak Bay council this past week to discuss results of public consultation about the ...

The spread of the lethal death cap mushroom could get a lot worse in years to come, says a leading mycologist. The discovery of Amanita phalloides in the roots of a native Garry oak in 2016 means the extremely toxic mushroom is adapting to new tr...

OTTAWA — An ancient Indigenous knife unearthed during the renovation of Centre Block will be the first artifact found on Parliament Hill to be returned to the stewardship of the Algonquin people who live in the Ottawa region.Archeologists say the r...

MONTREAL — There's nobody running for mayor in St-Éloi, a small Quebec municipality that offers panoramic views of the St. Lawrence River.The 300-person community about 210 kilometres northeast of Quebec City will have to launch a second appeal fo...