With temperatures climbing ahead of the August long weekend, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry urged British Columbians to check on elderly and vulnerable friends and family, while civic officials opened cooling centres. Environment Cana...

DETROIT (AP) — Famous for gazing over eyeglasses worn on the end of his nose, Carl Levin seemed at ease wherever he went, whether attending a college football game back home in Michigan or taking on a multibillion-dollar corporation before cameras ...

DETROIT (AP) — Former Sen. Carl Levin, a powerful voice on military issues in Washington and a staunch supporter of the auto industry back home in Michigan during his record tenure in the U.S. Senate, has died. He was 87.The Harvard-educated civil ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — There are 55 winners of Illinois’ lottery for licenses to operate marijuana retail stores officials said Thursday, but the licenses can’t be awarded until a judge rules on a challenge to the process. Awarding of the lic...

Dozens of wildfires are out of control. COVID-19 cases are climbing — again. In short, the province is in crisis, shortly before B.C. Day. So what better time to bring out the pots and pans again? “We owe so much to so many. On Monday evening...

WHITEHORSE — Yukon has reported its seventh death linked to COVID-19 since the pandemic began. The territory's chief medical officer of health, Dr. Brendan Hanley, says in a statement that the person died in hospital Wednesday night. He says "an un...

B.C. Ferries’ sailings to Vancouver Island from Tsawwassen and Duke Point are full for the rest of Thursday and at standby vehicle capacity only. Only those customers who have a booking are now getting tickets, B.C. Ferries announced mid-afternoon ...

VICTORIA — British Columbia has surpassed 1,000 active cases of COVID-19 as daily infections continue to rise, particularly in parts of the province's southern Interior. Another 204 cases have been diagnosed, pushing the number of active cases ...

Nanaimo RCMP have released a picture of a car believed to have been used in an attack on a homeless man in Nanaimo who was run over twice and hit with bear spray. The 45-year-old man remains in hospital in Victoria being treated for multiple inju...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — Homicide investigators are probing the death of an infant in Metro Vancouver. A statement from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says police in New Westminster responded to a call about an unresponsive one-year-old ...

IQALUIT, Nunavut — The government of Nunavut says residents of the territory and of Arctic Quebec can now travel freely between both regions as long as they've been in a community for at least 14 days. The government says people from either region ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. Navy charged a sailor Thursday with starting a fire last year that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard docked off San Diego, marking the maritime branch's worst warship blaze outside of combat in recent memory. The amph...

OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives are urging the Liberal government to do more to ensure that Canadians who received two different doses of COVID-19 vaccines are able to travel internationally. Tory health critic Michelle Rempel Garner sent a lett...

SQUAMISH, B.C. — Numerous rock climbing routes on the renowned Grand Wall of the Stawamus Chief in Squamish, B.C., are closed after a large slab broke off.The society that supports rock climbing in the area says hot weather might be to blame.BC Par...

WINNIPEG — An archdiocese in Manitoba will no longer allow a Catholic priest to preach publicly or teach after he suggested during a sermon that residential school survivors lied to get settlement money. "His words have deeply, deeply hurt people,"...

SHERBROOKE, Que. — Police and firefighters in Sherbrooke, Que., allegedly mistook a woman's body for a mannequin and threw her remains into a dumpster, police Chief Danny McConnell said Thursday.The incident occurred July 23 in the city about 150 k...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is reiterating demands for more concrete action after meeting with Indigenous leaders at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., that bears unmarked graves.In front of the institution's b...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress overwhelmingly passed emergency legislation Thursday that would bolster security at the Capitol, repay outstanding debts from the violent Jan. 6 insurrection and increase the number of visas for allies who worked alongsid...

HALIFAX — As New Brunswick prepares to drop all of its COVID-19 restrictions on Friday night, some infectious disease experts are warning the province should prepare for a surge in cases this fall because of the highly contagious Delta variant. All...

The woman convicted of murdering teenager Reena Virk near Victoria 24 years ago will be allowed to continue her day parole. The Parole Board of Canada has released another ruling on Kelly Ellard, who now goes by the name of Kerry Sim. Sim, 38, ...