An outbreak has been declared at the Discovery Harbour long-term care home in Campbell River, where three staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. Island Health said Wednesday that no residents were experiencing symptoms. The three staf...

GREENVILLE, Calif. (AP) — California’s largest wildfire has leveled much of the downtown and some surrounding homes in a small Northern California mountain community.The Dixie Fire tore through the Greenville on Wednesday evening, destroying busi...

VANCOUVER — The Insurance Bureau of Canada estimates the damage caused by the wildfire that wiped out most of village of Lytton, B.C., is $78 million. The bureau says in a statement there has been about 300 claims so far, most of which are related ...

GREENVILLE, Calif. (AP) — California’s largest wildfire has leveled much of the downtown and some surrounding homes in a small Northern California mountain community.The Dixie Fire tore through the Greenville on Wednesday evening, destroying busi...

OTTAWA — The federal government has announced it will send more than 82,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Trinidad and Tobago.International Development Minister Karina Gould said in a release Wednesday that Trinidad and Tobago...

OTTAWA — The first planeload of Afghan refugees who supported the Canadian military mission in Afghanistan has arrived in Canada.The federal government is not saying how many refugees were on board the flight Wednesday or where they'll be resettled...

Two sailings on the Queen of New Westminster, which runs between Swartz Bay and Tsawwassen, were cancelled on Wednesday because of a staffing shortage. The 6 p.m. sailing out of Tsawwassen was cancelled and the 8 p.m. sailing from Swartz Bay was ...

ENCINO, Texas — An overloaded van carrying 29 migrants crashed Wednesday on a remote South Texas highway, killing at least 10 people, including the driver, and injuring 20 others, authorities said.The crash happened shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday o...

West Shore RCMP and Comox Valley RCMP are searching for two missing teens who they believe might be together. Tyson Brown, 15, of Colwood and Grace Smiley, 16, from Comox could be in Victoria, Nanaimo or Vancouver, police said. Both were report...

Daily COVID-19 cases in British Columbia continue to rise as the province reports 342 new infections, the highest count since late May. There are 1,764 active infections, including 55 people who are hospitalized, but no new deaths. Half of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking the first steps toward requiring nearly all foreign visitors to the U.S. to be vaccinated for the coronavirus, a White House official said Wednesday.The requirement would come as part of the admi...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Having just had her flight canceled, a Missouri woman's luck quickly changed when she won $1 million from a Florida Lottery scratch-off ticket.Angela Caravella, 51, of Kansas City, Missouri, claimed a $1 million top prize l...

WINNIPEG — A northern First Nation in Manitoba is sending some of its members south because of smoke and wildfires.Tataskweyak Cree Nation, also known as Split Lake, started transporting members with health concerns out of the community Tuesday eve...

A husband and wife died Tuesday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash on West Saanich Road, just south of Old West Saanich Road. Central Saanich police were called about 4 p.m. to the scene near the Saanich/Central Saanich border where the vehicle ...

WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government has lifted a series of public health restrictions as active COVID-19 infections decline and the vaccination rate rises. Starting Wednesday, the territory says masks are no longer required in indoor spaces but are s...

OTTAWA — Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay said Wednesday the government is making progress on clearing the backlog of claims for disability benefits from injured ex-soldiers thanks to the additions of hundreds of staff.The minister’s c...

IQALUIT, Nunavut — The Baffin Island community of Qikiqtarjuaq will see a deepwater port built in its community after decades of lobbying the federal government.Infrastructure minister Catherine McKenna announced the $40 million project today at a ...

WINNIPEG — A Manitoba cabinet minister who, three weeks ago, defended some of the intentions behind residential schools said Wednesday the schools were part of a genocide under a plan by former prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald."It wasn't just c...

OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives raised roughly twice as much money as the Liberals in the first half of 2021, lending them a cash advantage ahead of a likely fall election.Elections Canada filings show the Tories raked in $13.6 million in the fi...

PLYMOUTH, Pa. (AP) — A book checked out a half-century ago has been anonymously returned to a library in northeastern Pennsylvania, officials said.The Wilkes-Barre Citizens' Voice reports that the 1967 copy of "Coins You Can Collect" by Burton Hobs...