Everyone aboard a sinking vessel off Gabriola Island on Sunday was rescued. The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre received a mayday call at 1:26 p.m. about a vessel in distress off the north tip of Gabriola Island, east of Nanaimo, and notified a...

A Victoria couple whose boat capsized during a guided trip on the Bella Coola River on Tuesday has been identified by family as Andrea and Cameron Murdoch.Cameron, 42, who grew up in Victoria, has been found dead. Andrea (nee Newsted), 51, who grew u...

HALIFAX — As Nova Scotia's month-long election campaign draws to a close, it appears Tuesday's vote could be a lot tighter than initially expected.The incumbent Liberals, who are seeking a rare third term in office, were widely expected to cruise b...

VANCOUVER — The BC Wildfire Service says evacuation orders have been issued for hundreds of properties throughout the province as high winds intensified the spread of multiple blazes.The City of Kamloops issued an evacuation order for 734 propertie...

Canadians working to evacuate allies from Afghanistan described chaos, fear and disappointment on Sunday as Canada shut down its embassy in Kabul and suspended diplomatic relations amid a Taliban advance in the capital. The federal government said th...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The National Hurricane Center said Fred regained its tropical storm status in the Gulf of Mexico early Sunday as parts of the Caribbean were gearing up for impacts from Tropical Storm Grace.Fred was forecast to move acr...

A program that provides emergency hygiene supplies to Indigenous communities across the province is in limbo after the RCMP pulled funding. For four years, Soap for Hope Canada, a Victoria-based charity, has collected unused hygiene and linen pro...

“There’s a tombstone in my parents’ garden,” began the email from Kate Whyte. “My grandfather passed it down to my dad about 20 years ago, but it didn’t belong to him. In fact, it doesn’t belong to anyone in my family. It belongs to a...

The Saanich Fire Department is not accepting excuses from anyone breaking the rules: If you light a beach fire, start a wood-burning pizza oven or decide to light a few sticks for a quiet backyard marshmallow roast, you’re going to get busted. ...

Island Health has established its own primary care clinic in Port McNeill, replacing a private clinic that had been reduced to one doctor who was asking the province for more resources. The Mount Waddington Regional Hospital District purchased th...

Maureen Eykelenboom is filled with sadness watching the ­Taliban capture parts of Afghanistan, but Canada’s presence there and her son’s death “was not for nothing,” she said. Cpl. Andrew (Boomer) Eykelenboom, 23, died Aug. 11, 2006 when...

The province should follow the federal government’s lead and put a vaccine mandate in place, says a UVic expert in labour law. Supriya Routh, an associate professor in the University of Victoria’s faculty of law, agrees with the federal gover...

SURREY, B.C. — Police say a male victim is in hospital after a shooting in Surrey, B.C. The RCMP say officers responded to a shots fired call on 152nd Street just after midnight. Police say a male with a gunshot wound was found at the scene and rus...

MONTREAL — Nursing students and recent graduates from nursing programs in Quebec say working conditions in the province's public health-care system are pushing them into the private sector, further exacerbating a shortage of nurses in provincial ho...

VANCOUVER — The estimated $78 million in insured property damage from the wildfire that devastated the community of Lytton, B.C., in June is a fraction of the rising costs of disasters fuelled by climate change, the Insurance Bureau of Canada says....

TORONTO — Saturday's $20 million Lotto 649 jackpot will be split between two ticket holders.One winning ticket was sold in Ontario and the other in the Prairies.Each is worth $10 million.Meanwhile, the draw's guaranteed $1 million prize went to a l...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll from an overnight grenade attack on a truck carrying women and children in Karachi rose to 12 on Sunday. Attackers targeted the truck on Saturday evening as it shuttled an extended family from a wedding cerem...

LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — The death toll from a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Haiti soared to at least 1,297 Sunday as rescuers raced to find survivors amid the rubble ahead of a potential deluge from an approaching tropical storm.Saturday's earthquake...

Saanich major crime detectives have concluded that a fire in a Saanich rooming home early Wednesday morning is no longer regarded as suspicious and there was no criminality surrounding what caused the fire.“Furthermore, all persons believed to be r...

VANCOUVER — A B.C. government-owned single-room-occupancy hotel on downtown Vancouver’s Granville Street strip has been hit with 80 orders to address issues related mainly to fire and health safety standards identified by city inspectors in Jun...