As COVID-19 vaccination rates increase and case numbers drop across the country, the provinces and territories have begun releasing the reopening plans for businesses, events and recreational facilities.Most of the plans are based on each jurisdictio...

PORT RENFREW, B.C. — RCMP have arrested another 11 people at blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on southwestern Vancouver Island.The Mounties were enforcing an injunction ordering the people off land in the Braden Mainline Forest Servic...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, June 22, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 482,991 new vaccinations administered for a total of 33,049,022 doses given. Nationwide, 7,818,433 people or 21...

Times ColonistNine-year-old Tommy Cunningham never met Jordie Lunn and only knows the late Island mountain-biking legend through online clips.“I’ve watched all his videos,” said the Grade 4 student at David Cameron Elementary School, an avid ri...

Colwood Mayor Rob Martin is taking the possibility of a partial closure of Ocean Boulevard this summer off the table.Council was expected to discuss a notice of motion next week by the mayor about closing a 400-metres section of the road from Friday ...

Saanich council is calling on the federal government to devote resources to investigating whether the remains of First Nations people are buried on former residential school grounds and elsewhere on traditional lands, including confirming identities ...

Police are investigating the theft of an expensive bottle of single-malt Scotch whisky from the Cork & Barrel liquor store Monday afternoon. The bottle of The Macallan No. 6, a “stunning whisky” encased in a Lalique crystal decanter, is v...

Threats of violence prompted organizers of an anti-racism car rally in Nanaimo to postpone their event last weekend.Nanaimo Mayor Leonard Krog said Tuesday that a rally organizer had posted a statement on Facebook saying an email sender threatened to...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, June 22, 2021. Some provinces and territories do not report daily case numbers.There are 1,410,206 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 1,410,206 confirmed cases (...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A major business in New Mexico's burgeoning market for marijuana wants the state to refund millions of dollars in taxes that were levied in recent years on sales of medical marijuana but not against most prescription medicatio...

About 1.1 million people in the province — 24 per cent of those eligible — are fully vaccinated, B.C.’s provincial health officer said Tuesday as she reported only 56 new cases of COVID-19 in the province, including three in Island Health. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democratic colleagues on Tuesday that she is creating a new committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, according to a person familiar with her remarks. Pelosi made the announce...

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — British Columbia's provincial health officer is encouraging anyone who is offered a different COVID-19 vaccine than the one they first received to take it. Dr. Bonnie Henry said fluctuating vaccine supply means if you received...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Crown prosecutors have stayed charges against parents who were facing a third trial in the death of their toddler in southern Alberta. Shawn Buckley, a lawyer for David and Collet Stephan, said Tuesday he received a letter from ...

DENVER (AP) — A police officer who was one of three people killed in a shooting at a suburban Denver shopping district was ambushed by a suspect who previously expressed hatred toward police, authorities said Tuesday.Arvada Police Officer Gordon Be...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democrats' sweeping attempt to rewrite U.S. election and voting law suffered a major setback in the Senate Tuesday, blocked by a filibuster wall of Republican opposition to what would be the largest overhaul of the electoral s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, for the first time, said Tuesday he will support long-debated changes to the military justice system that would remove decisions on prosecuting sexual assault cases from military commanders. In a st...

BARNEGAT, N.J. (AP) — A golden retriever who had been missing for two weeks was rescued Tuesday from a bay in New Jersey.Authorities say that New Jersey State Police troopers Ryan Koehler and Vincent Ferdinandi, of Point Pleasant Station, responded...

VICTORIA — A British Columbia official whose job it is to tackle racism is condemning threats of violence that led to the postponement of an anti-racism rally on Vancouver Island over the weekend. Rachna Singh, parliamentary secretary for anti-raci...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Thousands of asylum-seekers whose claims were dismissed or denied under a Trump administration policy that forced them to wait in Mexico for their court hearings will be allowed to return for another chance at humanitarian protecti...