For the first time in 10 years, the Victoria-class submarine HMCS Corner Brook is heading to sea. Sunday morning, Seaspan’s Careen barge transported the vessel from Esquimalt Graving Dock to Ogden Point. The submarine, which was acquired from...

Oak Bay’s Penny Farthing Pub and adjoining Vis a Vis restaurant will be closed until June 16 for what the company calls a “professional deep clean” after a COVID exposure last week.In a note on its website, the company said it was informed of t...

Eight activists including two minors were arrested Saturday at anti-logging blockades near Port Renfrew.Lake Cowichan RCMP said the eight protesters were arrested at an encampment for breaching a court injunction to allow loggers to have access to th...

BRUSSELS — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is joining a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with Canada reiterating its broad support for Ukraine, but not whether it will back a move by Kyiv to join the military alliance amid tensions w...

HALIFAX — Here is the complete list of winners from the 2021 East Coast Music Awards, announced Sunday evening:- African Canadian Artist of the Year: Zamani - Album of the Year: Neon Dreams – "The Happiness Of Tomorrow" (Producers: Corey LeRue, P...

HALIFAX — Classified, Les Hay Babies, Maxim Cormier, Rich Aucoin and Rose Cousins have emerged as the big winners of the 2021 East Coast Music Awards, snagging two of Atlantic Canada's biggest music prizes each.The awards were announced Sunday even...

MONTREAL — The union representing ambulance paramedics in the Montreal and Laval areas says just over 1,000 of its members will be on strike as of midnight.Union spokeswoman Eve-Marie Lacasse says the strike involves mostly administrative tasks, su...

VICTORIA — Opponents of old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island say they will stage a hunger strike in Vancouver until they can meet with British Columbia Premier John Horgan and Jonathan Wilkinson, the federal environment and climate chang...

OTTAWA — One of the senior military officers who golfed with former chief of the defence staff Jonathan Vance has the power to direct military investigations — a power recently flagged by a retired Supreme Court justice as a threat to police inde...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):2:15 p.m.Manitoba is reporting seven new deaths of people with COVID-19.The province's daily pandemic update says six of the deaths are linked to variants of concern, with five of...

NEWQUAY, England (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday said the United States had restored its presence on the world stage as he used his first overseas trip since taking office to connect with a new generation of leaders from some of the world’s ...

Sitting in her Ottawa apartment on a hot morning, Mumilaaq Qaqqaq thinks about her grandparents, who, like most Nunavut Inuit of their generation, grew up on the land. She thinks about her father, who was also born there but moved with his family int...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament on Sunday narrowly approved a new coalition government, ending the historic 12-year rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and sending the polarizing leader into the opposition.Naftali Bennett, a former all...

A Nanoose Bay man had a close call this week after the vehicle he was sitting in was struck by lightning — just days before National Lightning Safety Awareness Week is set to begin. On Wednesday afternoon, a slow-moving thunderstorm passed thro...

Is it safe to use a telephone in a thunderstorm? Using a corded telephone is not advisable as a current can travel along the telephone line. Using a cellphone is safe but if a lightning strike occurs nearby, the noise that is produced from the li...

Forestry companies on the coast are dependent on old-growth logging for at least the next decade because second-growth trees aren’t yet big enough to be harvested, says the co-author of an old-growth strategic review. Registered professional fo...

A Langford man has been acquitted of shooting his roommate through the shoulder two years ago. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Karen Horsman said there was insufficient evidence to find Devan Lambert shot and injured his roommate in their Jacklin Road...

After five years of trucking dirty duds off-island, they’re celebrating Salt Spring’s new laundromat today. Now, if only someone could find a home for one in downtown Victoria. Same goes for other Canadian communities as the number of coin-...

TORONTO — A lucky lottery player somewhere in Ontario is holding the winning ticket for Saturday's $9.4 million jackpot.The winning ticket for the draw's guaranteed $1 million prize was also sold in Ontario — as was the ticket for the $250,000 ru...

It’s dawn in Batangas, a city more than a hundred kilometres north of the Philippine capital city of Manila, when Eric Gutierrez recalls memories of his college best friend Efren Reyes. Reyes was smart and unassuming, and they would play pool, eat ...