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 jurisdicti...

WINNIPEG — Dominick Zator scored the go-ahead goal in the 48th minute, and York United FC beat Valour FC 2-1 on Wednesday in Canadian Premier League play.Lowell Wright scored in the 14th minute to help York United FC (1-1-2) to its first win of the...

The Tampa Bay Lightning are Stanley Cup champions for the second year in a row.The Lightning downed the Montreal Canadiens 1-0 on Wednesday to take the best-of-seven final in five games.It's Tampa Bay's third Stanley Cup in franchise history.The Ligh...

City crews were at the Johnson Street Bridge into the evening Wednesday after the span was stuck in the down position. It was fixed by 9 p.m.  Motorists, cyclists and pedestrians could cross as usual but potential marine traffic was disrupte...

The global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 4 million Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant.The tally of lives lost over the past year and a half, as compiled from official so...

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PENTICTON, B.C. — The City of Penticton has launched a B.C. Supreme Court challenge against the provincial government's move to override its zoning bylaws for what was to be a temporary winter shelter. The petition says the government's actions to ...

A Victoria woman has successfully appealed her conviction for the first-degree murder of her 18-month-old daughter in September 2015. The B.C. Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for Kaela Janine Mehl, who was convicted by a jury in October 2...

OTTAWA — Green party layoffs are leaving leader Annamie Paul without staff in her office as a feud goes on.Three sources affected by the cuts, who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about internal matters, say...

MONTREAL — The first Canadian victim identified in the collapse of a South Florida condominium is a former Montrealer.Ingrid "Itty" Ainsworth, 66, died in the collapse in late June along with her husband Tzvi, 68.Their identities were made public e...

REGINA — Saskatchewan is offering COVID-19 public safety guidance as the province prepares to fully reopen on Sunday. A public health order requiring masks indoors will be lifted, but the government says unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people ...

A recent heat wave in Western Canada that blew past records and contributed to hundreds of deaths could not have happened without climate change, an international group of scientists has concluded.And even if the world meets greenhouse gas reduction ...

NKANDLA, South Africa (AP) — Former South African president Jacob Zuma left his home late Wednesday night to turn himself in to authorities to serve a 15-month prison term, his foundation has confirmed.Just minutes before the midnight deadline for ...

LONDON — England has broken through its semifinal ceiling at major soccer tournaments. A title match awaits for the first time in 55 years.Harry Kane converted the rebound after his initial penalty was saved in the 104th minute to give England a co...

OTTAWA — The naming of Canada's first Indigenous governor general could give the federal government a timely opportunity to tackle a key recommendation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission involving the Crown, according to an expert.One of th...

MONTREAL — Quebecers of Haitian descent reacted with shock and worry on Wednesday to the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise.Nicholson Poulard, a Montreal-based information technology worker who left Haiti in 1987, said the killing has...

She could have — make that should have — been a breakout star in an Olympics desperate for any kind of positive jolt. Sha'Carri Richardson has the look and she has the goods, and it wasn’t out of the question to picture her walking around Tokyo...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — A semi-retired trucker is British Columbia's newest millionaire, after he claimed a $35-million winning ticket.Gary Hill, who's 61 and lives in Kamloops, chose all seven numbers correctly in the June 22 Lotto Max draw.He will split...

The University of Victoria says it has implemented all 43 recommendations stemming from an independent investigation into a field-trip bus crash that killed two first-year students in 2019. The final step involves a return trip to Bamfield Marine Sci...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A western Indiana police office was fatally shot Wednesday, authorities said.Sgt. Ryan Adamson of the Terre Haute Police Department confirmed on Twitter that the officer had died."We have unfortunately had an officer shot i...