KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Plans are being made to identify and return home the remains of more than 200 children found buried at the site of a former residential school in British Columbia's Interior, says a provincial Indigenous leader. The Kamloops Indian...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Saturday, May 29, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 463,184 new vaccinations administered for a total of 22,809,939 doses given. Nationwide, 1,877,968 people or 5.0...

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. — The Mounties say four people were arrested Friday as they enforced a British Columbia court injunction ordering the removal of blockades aimed at preventing old-growth logging on southwestern Vancouver Island. Police say of th...

Campbell River RCMP are asking for assistance in locating Tyler Everett Sacht.Sacht, 40, is 6-foot-2, 180 pounds with average build and sandy brown hair and wears glasses.Police said Sacht may appear to move slow due to physical limitations.He has a ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California district attorney said in a court filing Friday that she won’t seek a new death sentence against Scott Peterson, convicted in 2005 of murdering his pregnant wife. The Stanislaus County district attorney’s ...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Saturday, May 29, 2021.There are 1,374,275 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 1,374,275 confirmed cases (39,903 active, 1,308,932 resolved, 25,440 deaths).*The total case...

The northbound lane of Highway 1 at Deloume Road has been closed due to a crash.Emergency crews are at the scene. Drivers should expect delays due to congestion.

Assault rifles, other weapons and drugs were seized from a Glasgow Avenue home that Saanich police said had been fortified from the inside. There were high-powered weapons and ammunition just inside an entrance, police said, and a rear door was a...

VICTORIA — British Columbia health officials say COVID-19 is still spreading with new cases and clusters as the province begins to reopen in a four-step plan. In a news release, they say it is important to get vaccinated while maintaining social di...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal appeals court said Friday the nation’s largest private prison corporation can be held liable for negligence by a man who spent almost a year in solitary confinement at a southern Nevada facility without ever seeing a ju...

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. — British Columbia's Conservation Officer Service says Canadian National Railway has entered a guilty plea in a Prince Rupert court for failing to obtain the needed authorization to apply pesticide along its tracks. The service ...

Just over half a million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the Island Health region, which means that about two-thirds of the population over the age of 18 has had a first dose, says Island Health’s chief medical health officer.Dr...

EDMONTON — The Canadian Press has clarified a May 21 story on "anti-Alberta" inquiry researcher Vivian Krause.An early version of the story did not include proper sourcing in headlines and the lead paragraph. The story said Krause had backed off an...

HOUSTON (AP) — Eleven employees with a Texas sheriff’s office have been fired and six others suspended following the February death of an inmate who was hit multiple times in the head by detention officers, authorities announced Friday. Harris Co...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The gunman who killed nine of his co-workers at a California rail yard had stockpiled weapons and 25,000 rounds of ammunition at his house before setting it on fire to coincide with the bloodshed at the workplace he seethed abo...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The remains of 215 children have been discovered at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. Here is some of the reaction to what was found: "Knowing that children have went missing, their relations have went missi...

A man was arrested after an incident in downtown Victoria Friday morning where a shirtless man tried to pull a woman out of her car. Shortly before 11 a.m., Victoria police were called to the intersection of Douglas and View streets for a report ...

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:Toronto Stock Exchange (19,852.18, up 77.77 points.)BlackBerry Ltd. (TSX:BB). Technology. Up 22 cents, or 1.85 per cent, to $12.14 on 19 million shares.Auxly Ca...

Nanaimo RCMP is urging residents to be extra cautious online after three people were scammed via their computers this month. A man in his thirties is out $5,000 after he was targeted with a Bitcoin scam through the WhatsApp social media site, pol...

OTTAWA — Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan says Canada is trying to reach a new deal with the United States over softwood lumber, but it's the Americans who are "not willing to reach an agreement."O'Regan was pressed during a parliamentary ...