Victoria police have released a picture of a suspect after employees at a business were threatened by a man wielding a golf club. Police were called to a business in the 600-block of Queens Avenue, between Government and Douglas streets, about 11...

The number of people seeking to get vaccinated in B.C. has more than doubled since new vaccine card requirements were unveiled on Monday.Health officials said 7,347 people booked vaccination appointments on Monday and 9,486 booked on Tuesday. That’...

Victoria police are working to identify a suspect after medical equipment was stolen from B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics while they were tending to a patient. Photos of the suspect in the Aug. 6 incident in the 500-block of Ellice Street have ...

Some evacuation alerts in the vicinity of the Mount Hayes wildfire near Ladysmith have been lifted, said Coastal Fire Centre information officer Gordon Robinson. Alerts have ended for properties in North Oyster, but remain for the Fortis B.C. liq...

Erin Giesbrecht, a visitor from the Yukon, issued a thank you via Facebook to members of Arrowsmith Search and Rescue, who helped her after she was injured on the Nile Creek Trail near Qualicum Beach on Tuesday. “I am very grateful for your car...

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government says the number of people registering for and making appointments for the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine made a "significant" jump in the first two days of this week. On Monday, it says the number of dai...

A B.C. Highway Patrol officer had to literally put the brakes on a speeding car after it sped past him at 125 kilometres an hour in a 90 zone. The officer was conducting speed enforcement on Highway 19 near Nanoose Bay on Saturday when the Ford E...

DETROIT (AP) — Nine lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump face financial penalties and other sanctions after a judge Wednesday said they had abused the court system with a lawsuit that challenged Michigan's election results that certifi...

VANCOUVER — One person is believed to be dead and another is in hospital after part of a building collapsed, RCMP in North Vancouver said Wednesday.Fire and rescue personnel determined that one person had sustained "catastrophic" injuries, but it w...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A man upset over state-ordered coronavirus restrictions was sentenced to just over six years in prison Wednesday for planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a significant break that reflected his quick decision...

YELLOWKNIFE — The Northwest Territories has issued its first territorywide mask mandate in the face of growing COVID-19 numbers. Chief public health officer Dr. Kami Kandola said masks will be mandatory in all indoor public spaces starting Thursday...

NORTH VANCOUVER — One person has died and another is in hospital after a building under demolition in North Vancouver had a structural failure, causing parts of the building to collapse. Sgt. Peter DeVries, North Vancouver RCMP spokesman, said ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and Republican rival Jack Ciattarelli will go head to head in two debates in late September and mid-October while their running mates will clash once, New Jersey election officials announced Wednesda...

EDMONTON — A former long-haul trucker from Ontario who is in an Alberta prison for killing a woman in an Edmonton hotel room a decade ago is appealing his conviction and sentence.Bradley Barton was sentenced last month to 12 1/2 years for manslaugh...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that as many as 1,500 Americans may be awaiting evacuation from Afghanistan, a figure that suggests that part of the U.S.-led airlift from the Taliban-controlled country could be co...

Montreal police officers are trained to be alert for danger, but after two officers were allegedly targeted by bullets earlier this week, members of the force are being urged to be extra careful, Insp. David Shane said Wednesday."Though that is part ...

EDMONTON — Alberta reported more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesdaybut, along with Saskatchewan, is not planning to follow broad mask mandates announced this week by neighbouring western provinces.Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Health ...

WHITEHORSE — Yukon will lift its civil state of emergency put in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic as it shifts to targeting specific outbreaks, Premier Sandy Silver said Wednesday.He said certain health measures, like mask-wearing and physical di...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ernest "Rip" Patton, a member of the Nashville Freedom Riders and civil rights leader, has died, the Freedom Rides Museum announced. He was 81.Patton participated in the downtown Nashville civil rights sit-ins in 1960, a mov...

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's police watchdog has cleared Vancouver officers in the fatal shooting of a man in the Downtown Eastside earlier this year. A report released by the Independent Investigations Office Tuesday said the officers' use of fo...