A cross-section of local charities and non-profits stretched financially by the pandemic are receiving more than $3.13 million in grants from the Victoria Foundation.Under the foundation’s Community Recovery Program, 142 charitable-sector organizat...

AP-US-MUSIC-FEST-DEATHS4 Michigan festivalgoers dead; 3 exposed to carbon monoxideBROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say at least four people have died while attending a weekend country music festival in southern Michigan. The deaths include three ...

A man died Saturday after trying to save a child who got into trouble while swimming in Chehalis Lake, located off a remote forest service outside of Harrison Mills in the Fraser Valley. The incident occurred at the Skwellepil Creek 4x4-access-on...

A serious rollover crash on the Coquihalla Highway killed one and seriously injured several others, including a child who suffered life-threatening injuries. Police and emergency crews were called to the crash Saturday just after 8:30 a.m., on Hi...

WINNIPEG — Ali Musse scored in the 52nd minute and Cavalry FC went on to defeat HFX Wanderers FC 2-1 in the Canadian Premier League Saturday.With the win, Cavalry (3-2-2) snapped its four-game winless skid.Anthony Novak scored in first-half stoppag...

LOS ANGELES — California’s next governor could be a retired homicide detective, a marijuana reform advocate or a former mayor. Maybe the job will filled by a social media influencer, a tech executive-turned-pastor or a 1976 Olympic champion.Candi...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s next governor could be a retired homicide detective, a marijuana reform advocate or a former mayor. Maybe the job will filled by a social media influencer, a tech executive-turned-pastor or a 1976 Olympic champion....

The number of deaths reported during a record-breaking heat wave in B.C. three weeks ago has climbed to 808 — 610 more than average, according to preliminary data from the B.C. Coroners Service. Over the past five years, there has been an avera...

Firefighters from three fire departments are battling a fire that started at a Langford construction site early Saturday afternoon. The Langford Fire Department is on the scene, with the Colwood and View Royal fire departments assisting. The bl...

Expect to hear the roar of jet engines over Vancouver Island Sunday as the CF-18 Demonstration Team conducts a flypast to recognize the hard work and sacrifices of front-line workers. The flypasts are part of the Royal Canadian Air Force’s Oper...

Three Victoria Fire Department engine companies attended to a single-family house fire that broke out Friday evening at an older character home at on Quamichan Street. The blaze, called in at 8:30 p.m., was confined to the attic and roof area of ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The wife Haiti’s assassinated President Jovenel Moïse, who was injured in the attack that killed her husband, returned to the Caribbean nation on Saturday, an official said. Government spokesman Israel Cantave told T...

MONTREAL — There won't be any more negotiations over a proposed natural gas pipeline crossing Indigenous lands in northern Quebec, say Innu leaders who oppose it. The Innu First Nations of Mashteuiatsh, Pessamit and Essipit say they are ready to ta...

MONTREAL — A 13-year-old boy has died after he was found unconscious at a Montreal public pool. An emergency call was placed around 4 a.m. that young person had been found unconscious at a pool in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood. Montreal p...

PHOENIX (AP) — In August 2011, a police officer found a marijuana roach in Carlos Diaz’s car under the seat when he was pulled over for a broken headlight. Diaz said he was sober and passed a field sobriety test.The resulting misdemeanor for mari...

HALIFAX — Here are a few quick facts about the three Nova Scotia party leaders ahead of the Aug. 17provincial election.At dissolution, the Liberals had 24 seats in the legislature while the Progressive Conservatives had 17 seats and the NDP five. T...

WINNIPEG — Manitoba's chief public health officer says it was "difficult" to extend restrictions on gatherings into people's homes, but he notes the move might have been made earlier with the benefit of hindsight."It was very daunting to provide fo...

A Victoria criminal lawyer says his client was attacked and stabbed this week while in custody at the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre on Wilkinson Road. Denis Bernsten said his client told him he had warned a senior official at the ...

Being a glass-one-fifth-empty kind of guy, I had to dampen the mood. It came Friday as Island Health celebrated the injection of its millionth dose of COVID vaccine. “Who would have thought that seven months ago we would be talking about a mi...

A proposed condo development in Cook Street Village that was rejected by Victoria council last year is moving forward after a public hearing. Aragon Properties plans to demolish the former Pic-A-Flic Video store, two houses and a duplex at Cook a...