Wildfires have caused heavy damage to dozens of properties in B.C.’s southern Interior and entire communities are on evacuation alert as gusting winds worsened fire conditions during the weekend and on Monday. The White Rock Lake wildfire has c...

A tentative deal has been brokered to buy Lady Rose Marine Services, considered a lifeline to remote communities and isolated lodges for its deliveries of essential goods and tourists to the Bamfield area. The service had planned to shut down Aug. ...

As COVID-19 vaccination rates increase, the provinces and territories have been releasing their reopening plans for businesses, events and recreational facilities.Most of the plans are based on each jurisdiction reaching vaccination targets at certai...

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. — Another 13 people, including a minor, were arrested as RCMP officers continued to enforce a BC Supreme Court injunction order in the Fairy Creek Watershed area.Police say protesters used locking or tripod-like devices, deep tr...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. experts are expected to recommend COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all Americans, regardless of age, eight months after they received their second dose of the shot, to ensure lasting protection against the coronavirus as the del...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. experts are expected to recommend COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all Americans, regardless of age, eight months after they received their second dose of the shot, to ensure lasting protection against the coronavirus as the del...

A woman survived a five-metre tumble down a Pender Island well into extremely cold, deep water with only minor injuries last week.“The well had a concrete cover over it and while she was on the perimeter of this field picking blackberries, the cove...

The province announced 1,434 new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend, including 112 new cases in Island Health. The daily case counts — 532 on Saturday, 441 on Sunday and 461 on Monday — are a drop from the 717 cases reported on Friday. On M...

Port McNeill remains under a boil water advisory until it gets two clear samples in a row. The Port McNeill Water System said last Wednesday that trace amounts of E. coli had been detected during routine testing and that a boil water notice would...

use one photoThe District of Oak Bay warns that death-cap mushrooms are starting to appear. They are very toxic and can cause severe illness or death if ingested, especially by children.The mushrooms can be identified their pale, yellowish flowers an...

Elections B.C. has fined three candidates in the October 2020 provincial election for problems with thei campaign materials. The B.C. Green Party was fined $1,000 for a two-page cover wrap in the Times Colonist that failed to include a statement ...

A man riding a BMX bike after midnight on Sunday with no helmet and no light, along with a hoodie pulled over his head and and a bandanna over his face, turned out to have a weapon in an unusual place. When he was searched by an Oak Bay police of...

No one was injured early Monday when fire destroyed a trailer on a rural property in Campbell River next to a forest. The lone resident was found safe at another location. Campbell River Deputy Fire Chief Kelly Bellefleur said that the extra-dr...

VICTORIA — British Columbia has 1,434 more cases of COVID-19 in the last three days for an average of 478 cases per day. A statement from the Health Ministry says there are now 5,090 active infections across B.C., of which about 58 per cent are in ...

WARSAW, Poland — An appellate court in Poland on Monday rejected a lawsuit brought against two Holocaust scholars - one of them an Ottawa professor - in a case that has been closely watched because it was expected to serve as a precedent for resear...

Royal Roads University issued a campus alert Monday after a report that a wolf had been spotted at Esquimalt Lagoon. The university is asking anyone on its campus to be vigilant of their surroundings and to keep dogs on leashes and children close...

LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Rescuers and scrap metal scavengers dug into the floors of a collapsed hotel Monday in this quake-ravaged coastal town, where 15 bodies had already been extracted. Jean Moise Fortunè, whose brother, the hotel owner, was kil...

EDMONTON — Crown prosecutors are appealing a 12 1/2-year sentence given to an Ontario truck driver found guilty in the killing of a woman in his Edmonton hotel room.Bradley Barton was sentenced in July for manslaughter in the death of Cindy Gladue,...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A queer artist from western Newfoundland is facing off against homophobia and hyper-masculinity in sports by creating a make-believe hockey league full of "sissies," "pansies" and "flamers."Lucas Morneau spent much of the COVID-1...

Montreal's Haitian community urged Ottawa on Monday to process immigration files more quickly for Haitians waiting to come to Canada, as its members tried to help their homeland following a deadly earthquake over the weekend.The head of the Montreal-...