B.C. is to receive $134 million to invest in long-term care facilities for priorities such as single-bed rooms as well as better ventilation and air quality. To address gaps in long-term care exposed throughout Canada during the initial months of...

The Town of Sidney is offering residents two more days to weigh in on a proposed new brewpub near the town centre. Residents will have until 4 p.m. on Monday to submit written comments on the proposal. There will be a special public participation...

The decisions of several top-tier universities in Canada to make COVID-19 vaccination a requirement to return to campus is putting pressure on holdouts to follow suit. At the University of Victoria, president Kevin Hall issued a statement Friday ...

The province is asking tourists to leave, or avoid, the communities of Armstrong, Spallumcheen, the Okanagan Indian Band and parts of the Regional District of North Okanagan in the southern Interior because of wildfires that are a “direct threat ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says the Taliban have launched a multi-pronged assault on Mazar-e-Sharif, a major city in northern Afghanistan defended by powerful former warlords.Munir Ahmad Farhad, a spokesman for the provincial gove...

WINNIPEG — Rasheed Bailey was planning to do more than just take home the football from his first CFL touchdown in Winnipeg's 20-7 victory over the Toronto Argonauts on Friday."I'm gonna sleep with that football tonight, I promise," said Bailey, a ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It's only a few days into the new school year, but New Mexico’s largest district is reeling from a shooting that left one student dead and landed another in custody. The gunfire at Washington Middle School during the lunc...

HMCS Winnipeg is casting off to join Operation Projection and Operation Neon with a sail-past salute at Duntze Head on Tuesday. The Halifax-class frigate will be deployed to the Asia-Pacific region on Operation Projection from August to December....

The Saanich Police Department is requesting the public’s assistance in locating Jamie Dougall, last seen in the Tillicum neighbourhood in Saanich on Aug. 11.Dougall, 47, is described as white, six feet tall and about 190 pounds. He is bald and clea...

ADELANTO, Calif. (AP) — The former mayor of Adelanto was arrested Friday for allegedly taking more than $57,000 in bribes and kickbacks to promote marijuana dispensaries and activities in the town northeast of Los Angeles.Richard Allen Kerr, 64, of...

Victoria police have asked for the public’s help in finding a missing man. Clifford Armitage, 58, was described by police as “high-risk,” though they did not elaborate. Armitage is white, five-foot-eight and of heavy build. He has short, ...

The dream of a thrift-store find turning out to be something valuable could be coming true for an Island man. Stephen Burgess found an intriguing frame at the Courtenay Value Village last weekend and thought enough of it to pay $130 for the frame...

The Strathcona Regional District is applauding the efforts of volunteer firefighters who have been fighting a wildfire alongside B.C. Wildfire Service firefighters on Sonora Island since Thursday. The fire was reported at 4 p.m. Thursday and on F...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Democrats are getting $100,000 from the Democratic National Committee to bolster voter registration efforts as the party aims to pour money into states traditionally dominated by Republicans before the 2022 midt...

A search has been called off for a diver who went missing near the Winchelsea Islands, north of Nanaimo. The man was on a recreational dive and went missing about 10 a.m. Friday. Because of a language barrier, there was a delay of about 2 1/2 h...

B.C. reported 717 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, a number not seen since early May. Forty cases were in Island Health.COVID-19 cases peaked at about 1,200 in April and fell until July, when phase three of the province’s reopening, dubbed Restart ...

VICTORIA — British Columbia has reported 717 new cases of COVID-19, pushing the number of active infections in the province to 4,277. Over half the latest cases and about 57 per cent of active infections are in the Interior Health region, where pub...

REGINA — Saskatchewan has become the latest jurisdiction to sign on to the federal government's plan to implement $10-a-day child care for families."A child-care centre is as important to our economy, it is as much a piece of critical infrastructur...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — One student was killed and another was taken into custody Friday after a shooting at a middle school near downtown Albuquerque during the lunch hour, police said. The gunfire at Washington Middle School marked the second sh...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell says he was aggressively poked by someone seeking a selfie in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, this week, which led him to say he was attacked.Lindell, who hosted an election fraud symposium ...