Oppressive heat pounded down on the Island Saturday as temperatures rose to record highs, with no relief for at least another two days. The temperature at Victoria International Airport hit 35.6 C between 6 and 7 p.m., smashing a record of 35 C f...

WINNIPEG — A late 82nd-minute strike by Victor Martinez gave Atletico Ottawa a 1-0 victory over FC Edmonton in the first game of the Canadian Premier League season Saturday afternoon in the bubble in Winnipeg.Martinez curled a left-footed shot from...

COWESSESS FIRST NATION — Members of the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan spent Saturday morning placing solar-powered lights next to each of the 751 unmarked graves near the site of a former residential school.A vigil was planned for later in...

PEACHLAND, B.C. — Residents evacuated from their homes in the town of Peachland in B.C.'s southern Interior are now allowed to return home, as crews have brought a wildfire in the area under control. The Central Okanagan Emergency Operations Centre...

VANCOUVER — An air quality advisory is in effect for eastern parts of Metro Vancouver and the central Fraser Valley amid a wave of extremely hot and sunny weather.The federation that represents 21 municipalities in Metro Vancouver says in a stateme...

RCMP investigating the disappearance of Lisa Marie Young 19 years ago say new witnesses have come forward with credible information on the cold case which have led to ground searches.Young was 19 when she vanished on June 30, 2002 after leaving a dow...

MONTREAL — A labour dispute at a slaughterhouse near Quebec City that resulted in more than one million chickens being euthanized has come to an end. Workers at the Exceldor co-operative in St-Ansèlme, Que., voted 66 per cent in favour of a deal s...

RICHMOND, B.C. — Police say they're investigating a double homicide in a residential area of Richmond, B.C. RCMP say they got a report around 8:40 p.m. on Friday of two victims suffering from gunshot wounds in the area of Westminster Highway an...

CAWSTON, B.C. — Mounties are investigating after they say two more Catholic churches in British Columbia's southern Interior were destroyed in early-morning fires. RCMP say the Princeton detachment got a report at 3:52 a.m. that St. Ann's Catholic...

MIAMI — The federal government still isn't offering any more details about whether Canadians are caught up in a deadly building collapse near Miami.Global Affairs Canada says four Canadians may be affected by the collapse at the seaside condo tower...

PORT RENFREW, B.C. — Police arrested 18 people Friday as they continued to enforce an injunction against blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island.The RCMP say in a statement that officers on their way to a protest...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):2:20 p.m.Manitoba is reporting 106 new cases of COVID-19 and three additional deaths as it relaxes some public health restrictions today.The province says all three deaths are lin...

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Rescue crews found another body in the rubble of a collapsed 12-story condominium tower near Miami on Saturday, raising the death toll to five as they raced to recover any survivors while fighting back fire and smoke deep insi...

EDMONTON — Lawyers say the retrial of a man to be sentenced next week for killing a woman in his hotel room 10 years ago is an example of how cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls should be handled.They say Bradley Barton'...

Farmers in Saskatchewan have been battling rain, wind, hail, drought and other extreme weather conditions this spring as they try to get crops in the ground. "We've had a little bit of everything," said Shaul Dyrland, who grows barley a...

About 10 kilometres down a dusty logging road outside Port Renfrew, a dozen or so officers work to extract a woman who has chained her arm into a pipe and buried it underground. Officers first remove a low wall of rocks arranged around the woman,...

The Spirit Orcas distance-swimming team is doing the first in a summer series of swims today as members look ahead to taking on the English Channel within the next few years. Marathon swimmer Susan Simmons leads the team, which is made up of peop...

For high-school graduates, the pandemic has meant no dinner-dances and no receiving diplomas in front of the entire graduating class for the second straight year. But Victoria High School student Annika Clark has done her best to keep her chin up...

An online bicycle-security system used by police across Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland is prompting the Victoria Police Department to phase out its bike-registry program by the end of the month. The system, Project 529 Garage, is based o...

LONDON (AP) — Britain's Treasury has unveiled a new special edition coin to commemorate the life of Prince Philip, who died in April at the age of 99.The Treasury said Saturday that the design of the 5-pound coin had been approved by Philip in 2008...