The University of Victoria and Royal Roads University are asking all students and employees to declare they are fully vaccinated or undergo periodic rapid testing. Vancouver Island University will also be asking community members to declare their v...

Island Health declared a COVID‑19 outbreak among three staff at the Sunset Lodge seniors home in Victoria on Friday as the province recorded its highest case count in four months.The outbreak brings the total number of outbreaks in long-term care, ...

A boy who suffered burns in Wednesday’s fire at a Duncan townhouse complex is in a medically induced coma in Vancouver’s B.C. Children’s Hospital. Kathleen August is with her son, Vincent, at the hospital, her friend Becky Daigle wrote on a...

Tom Woods, chair of Esquimalt Ribfest, said he was “dropping everything I’m doing” on Friday after learning about a new, $12.9-million provincial fund to help offset costs to stage community events. He was keen to get an application submitted r...

VICTORIA — The trend for COVID-19 infections in British Columbia continues upward with 867 new cases, the highest daily total in about four months.Three more people have died, while 159 people are in hospital and 84 of those are in intensive care.T...

MARSHFIELD, Wis. (AP) — Spotted in a car at a McDonald's drive-through in Wisconsin: A cow — all of it.Jessica Nelson of Mosinee pulled into the drive-through at a McDonald's in Marshfield on Thursday and said she looked up to see a cow in the ba...

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:Toronto Stock Exchange (20,644.64, up 140.49 points.) Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU). Energy. Up 55 cents, or 2.33 per cent, to $24.20 on 9.8 million shares.Great-...

Seven people escaped uninjured from a fire in a mobile home Friday on Ned Williams Road on Songhees Nation land. View Royal Fire Chief Paul Hurst said the residents were being helped by emergency social services after the 8 a.m. blaze. Three pe...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — California’s parole board voted Friday to free Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin after two of RFK’s sons went against several of their siblings' wishes and said they supported releasing him and prosecutors declined to argue he sho...

A suspect faces charges after Nanaimo RCMP recovered a catalytic converter stolen from a van owned by BGC, formerly known as the Nanaimo Boys and Girls Club. It wasn’t the first time one of the devices - part of an exhaust system that converts ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina couple split a nearly $1 million lottery jackpot thanks to two identical tickets, a sudden windfall the pair say they will put to good use.The North Carolina Education Lottery says Luther Cannon bought two tick...

WINNIPEG — Fully vaccinated people will be able to return to the dance floor as Manitoba brings back COVID-19 public health orders that allow certain activities only for those who have received two shots.The province announced that restaurants, bar...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies remain divided on the origins of the coronavirus but believe China's leaders did not know about the virus before the start of the global pandemic, according to results released Friday of a review ordered...

MONTREAL — A lack of signage and an ill-fated decision to take an unfamiliar shortcut contributed to the deaths of five French snowmobilers and their guide in Quebec's Lac-St-Jean region in early 2020, a coroner said Friday.Coroner Jessica Tremblay...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida struck Cuba on Friday and threatened to slam into Louisiana with devastating force over the weekend, prompting evacuations in New Orleans and across the coastal region.Ida intensified rapidly Friday from a tropical ...

VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government is spending $12.9 million to make grants available to festivals, fairs and community events affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.Melanie Mark, the minister of tourism, arts, culture and sport, says events wi...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus has ordered the closure of the country’s largest independent journalists’ organization, the latest move by authorities to suppress critical reporting in a yearlong crackdown on dissent.Friday's order by the country�...

SURREY, B.C. — Mounties say their initial investigation shows speed was a factor in a crash that killed three teenage hockey players in Surrey, B.C.In a news release, police say investigators have found that the car was travelling at a speed "signi...

HALIFAX — A man and his Halifax-based company defrauded five people of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a fake loan scheme, a Nova Scotia Securities Commission panel ruled earlier this week. In its 34-page ruling, the three-member panel found We...

Tommy Kakfwi says walking through Fort Good Hope in the Northwest Territories is a bit like being in a graveyard. The community of about 500 people has 89 cases of COVID-19, so one of every five or six residents is infected. It has been under a lockd...