TOKYO (AP) — Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami in his monthly radio show Sunday criticized the country’s prime minister, saying Yoshihide Suga has ignored a growing COVID-19 surge and public concerns about the pandemic.Murakami quoted Suga's comm...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Rockets struck a neighborhood near Kabul's international airport on Monday amid the ongoing U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. It wasn't immediately clear who launched them. The rockets struck Monday morning in Kabul's Sali...

Federal Liberal candidate and Colwood Coun. Doug Kobayashi was devastated when two of his campaign signs were defaced in recent days with images of swastikas. He was raised to deflect racism, to not talk back and to move forward. But in this case...

Victoria police are hoping to locate a woman who helped a stabbing victim by driving him to hospital in her blue Dodge pickup truck. About 4 a.m. on Sunday, hospital staff informed police that a man who had been stabbed was in their care. Offic...

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister plans to leave office Wednesday and have the Tory caucus choose an interim leader.Pallister, who announced his intention to step down earlier this month, said he has decided to leave well before the Progr...

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister has said that he plans to step down Wednesday. Here are some quotes from an interview with The Canadian Press:On low polling numbers: "If you govern with a view that you wish to be popular every day for f...

WINNIPEG — A timeline of major events in Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister's political career:Sept. 15, 1992: Pallister wins a provincial byelection in Portage la Prairie. He is re-elected in 1995 and elevated to cabinet as minister for government s...

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says the city will invest an additional $5.5 million in its police force in order to help fight gun crime. Plante said today alongside Chief Sylvain Caron that the amount would to dedicated to the effort to eradicate cr...

PENTICTON — Officials are warning that a wildfire burning southwest of Penticton, B.C., may affect operations at the local airport as crews made headway this weekend on several blazes in the province. The City of Penticton says the so-called Skaha ...

MILAN (AP) — Italian firefighters on Sunday battled a high-rise blaze in Milan that was spreading rapidly through a 20-story residential building. Residents were hurriedly evacuated.There were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths.A huge plume...

MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. National Hurricane Center says a new tropical storm system has formed in the central Atlantic Ocean. Forecasters at the Miami-based center say Tropical Storm Julian poses no threat to land. No coastal warnings or watches were ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says three children were killed in a drone strike that U.S. officials said struck a vehicle carrying Islamic State suicide bombers. The official spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns. ...

SEATTLE — A Washington state judge struck a Seattle measure on homelessness from the November ballot even as the city remains mired in a long-term humanitarian crisis. The so-called “Compassion Seattle” proposal would direct the city to pro...

A new website has been set up to provide easy-to-find mental-health and substance abuse information and support. Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Sheila Malcolmson said: “People seeking mental-health and substance use supports have told...

Members of the Vancouver Island Model Engineers have kept themselves busy in the past year by repurposing railings salvaged from the old Johnson Street Bridge. The railings’ new home is Heritage Acres, home to a miniature railway and farming exhi...

When Leila Cross, 14, showed up for her first anti-COVID-19 shot on Saturday there was no doubt in her mind why she was there. She decided to be vaccinated because “it would be best to keep myself and others safe.” Leila, who is concerned a...

Weekday morning. Rush hour. A driver coming off the Vic West end of the Bay Street bridge is stopped at Tyee, waiting to turn left. A sign reads No Left Turn, but the woman ignores it, causing vehicles to pile up behind her. The other drivers see...

Rachel Lee has her plane ticket booked to Victoria from Nova Scotia, but she still doesn’t know where she’ll be staying in her second year of university here. As with many University of Victoria students, she has been scrambling to find a pla...

The City of Campbell River is getting behind a private power-generating operation threatened with closure if B.C. Hydro does not renew its contract. Council voted last week to support Capital Power and its Island Generation facility by asking the...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A missile and drone attack on a key military base in Yemen’s south on Sunday killed at least 30 troops, a Yemeni military spokesman said. It was one of the deadliest attacks in the country's civil war in recent years.Mohammed ...