British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will convene a meeting of leaders from the Group of Seven nations on Tuesday for "urgent talks on the situation in Afghanistan."Johnson revealed the plan in a statement posted on Twitter. He says it's ...

RCMP used pepper spray and about two dozen officers to break a protester line at Fairy Creek Saturday as the number of arrests in the disputed logging area near Port Renfrew reached 740. Several videos posted online Saturday show confrontations b...

KAMLOOPS — The shuffling of patients around the Interior Health region due to wildfire-related evacuation orders has led to Royal Inland Hospital being at 120 per cent capacity or more. A memo obtained by Kamloops This Week notes the hospital i...

Comox Valley RCMP are asking the public to be on the lookout for a 72-year-old man who has been missing from his residence in Black Creek since Saturday.Police said David Pineo did not return home that evening. He was last seen wearing a dark coloure...

Saanich Peninsula Hospital closed its emergency room Saturday night due to staff shortages, diverting all urgent cases to Victoria General and Royal Jubilee Hospitals. In a statement on Sunday, Island Health said “a nurse staffing shortage” p...

The Mount Hayes fire near Ladysmith is being held, the B.C. Wildfire Service said Sunday afternoon. That means the blaze that has scorched 73 hectares since Thursday has received “sufficient suppression action that it is not likely to spread fu...

SURREY, B.C. — Hockey leagues such as the NHL and teams including the Humboldt Broncos have offered their condolences to the families of three junior players who died when a vehicle crashed into a tree in British Columbia."The NHL sends its love an...

Cooler conditions have helped firefighters make some progress against the White Rock Lake wildfire in British Columbia's Interior.The Central Okanagan Emergency Operations says although conditions improved over the past two days, firefighters still h...

MONTREAL — A blistering heatwave seemed poised to set new temperature records in parts of Quebec on Sunday, prompting both the national weather agency and the province's premier to issue warnings about the effects of scorching conditions. Environme...

MONTREAL — Quebec is reporting 463 new cases of COVID-19 today and no deaths attributed to the virus. Health authorities say the number of patients requiring hospitalization increased by eight to 98 over teh past 24 hours.The number of patients in ...

The Martin Mars water bomber sits idle on the shores of Sproat Lake, raising questions about why the massive aircraft isn’t being used to fight the flames ripping though the province — including in its own backyard. The short answer, accordin...

John Crouch is not quite ready to go gentle into that good night. To celebrate his 80th birthday, he cycled the length of Vancouver Island and back — a solo journey of more than 1,000 kilometres that took 10 days. It was not his first adventure...

Controversy around B.C.’s top doctor being photographed without a face covering at a B.C. Lions Game this past week highlights the ongoing questions around current mask recommendations. Henry was pictured at the home opener at B.C. Place on Thu...

First question for election candidates: Are you double-vaxxed? Second question: If not, is that because A) you have a medical condition that precludes it, or B) you think 9/11 was an inside job? Not that I’m against ­electing, er, alternativ...

B.C. Hydro is creating love nests for about 180 pairs of spawning chinook salmon returning to the Puntledge River. The Crown corporation is placing 1,350 cubic metres of gravel in the river to be used by the prized fish. It will go in on the left...

TEHRAN — Iran has reported its highest single-day COVID-19 death toll of the pandemic, according to state media.The official IRNA news agency said Sunday that 684 people had died of the disease since Saturday, while more than 36,400 new cases were ...

OTTAWA — Canada airlifted another 121 people from strife-ridden Afghanistan on Saturday, including Canadian citizens and family members as well as Afghan nationals accepted for resettlement by Ottawa and its allies, officials said Sunday.Canada wil...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The last person jailed for being gay in Romania walked free in 1998.The country decriminalized homosexuality three years after that, in 2001, while reforming its laws to qualify for membership in the European Union.The 20t...

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $6 million jackpot in Saturday night's Lotto 649 draw.However, the draw's guaranteed $1 million prize went to a lottery player in Quebec.The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Aug. 25 will be an esti...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — At least seven Afghans died in a panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul's international airport, the British military said Sunday, as thousands were still trying to flee the country in a chaotic exodus a week after...