Seaspan Shipyards has kicked in $75,000 to support the B.C. Tech Association’s Digital Lift internship program that has been designed to draw new people into the tech sector.Seaspan’s infusion — $75,000 spread over three years — will be used ...

Islanders appear to be adhering to the rules since a provincial mask mandate came into effect last week, according to police forces around the region.While Port Alberni RCMP had to respond to reports of a man urinating on the counter of a Dairy Queen...

CALGARY — Canada claimed its first women's world hockey championship in almost a decade Tuesday when Marie-Philip Poulin scored the overtime winner in a 3-2 victory over the United States.The Canadians won gold nine years after their last time atop...

Central Saanich Police are asking the public for help in locating and identifying the driver of a green Dodge pick-up truck that caused damage to a police vehicle Tuesday afternoon. Police are warning the public not to approach the driver or the ...

One or more cougars have been active in Greater Victoria in the last week, with the latest sighting in Central Saanich following reports in Saanich last week. Central Saanich Police issued a warning of two cougar sightings — one on Monday night...

About 75 protesters who had been blocking the Johnson Street Bridge on Tuesday afternoon abandoned the bridge and started heading into downtown Victoria around 6:30 p.m., according to Victoria police. In the late afternoon, Victoria police sent n...

The best way to protect students returning to school from COVID-19 is for all the adults in their lives — from teachers to bus drivers and parents — to get vaccinated, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Tuesday. There is still no...

WINNIPEG — One of the candidates running to be Manitoba's next premier appears to be taking a more relaxed approach to internal dissent over COVID-19 vaccine rules.Heather Stefanson says two of her Progressive Conservative caucus colleagues — Jam...

QUESNEL, B.C. — British Columbia's police watchdog is investigating after a person died following a shooting in Quesnel, B.C.The Independent Investigations Office says police were called to check on a parked vehicle with a man sleeping inside early...

VICTORIA — A stay of proceedings has been entered in the case of two supervisors and a British Columbia engineering company facing one count each of criminal negligence in connection with a workplace death more than a decade ago.The B.C. Prosecutio...

Nanaimo RCMP are asking for the public’s help locating a 26-year-old man who has been missing since Thursday. Brody David has not been heard from since leaving the north Nanaimo home he shares with his mother last Thursday. Police say he left h...

One resident has died and two more tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday at Sunset Lodge in Vic West. A total of 13 staff and 13 residents at the facility have now tested positive for COVID-19 in an outbreak declared Friday. The Sunset Lodge res...

WINNIPEG — Kelvin Goertzen will become Manitoba's 23rd premier.The governing Progressive Conservative caucus chose Goertzen on Tuesday as interim party leader to replace Premier Brian Pallister, who is scheduled to leave office Wednesday."It was un...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Addressing the nation, a defensive President Joe Biden on Tuesday called the U.S. military airlift to extract more than 120,000 Afghans, Americans and other allies to end a 20 year war an "extraordinary success," though more than ...

QUEBEC — Pierre Fitzgibbon will return to the cabinet of Premier François Legault on Wednesday after withdrawing in June because of ethics violations.He will resume his role as economy minister following the sale of his shares in two companies, ac...

Dr. Bonnie Henry signalled Tuesday that an expanded vaccine mandate for health-care workers is coming soon and booster shots for the elderly and immune-compromised will be offered in the coming weeks.Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, indicat...

WETASKIWIN, Alta. — A trial date has been set for a student accused of killing a 17-year-old girl at an Edmonton-area school.Dylan Thomas Pountney is to appear before a jury in January 2023 for an approximately 10-day trial.Pountney is charged with...

OTTAWA — A federal judge blames "institutional and systemic negligence" for the latest instance of Canada's spy service failing to be sufficiently forthcoming about applications for judicial warrants to conduct investigations.In a decision made pub...

Port Alberni RCMP are asking for help in identifying a man who urinated on the floor and counter of the Port Alberni Dairy Queen on Saturday. According to police, the man had been refused service because he wouldn’t wear a mask, and got into a heat...

WASHINGTON — The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the U.S. told Americans to "reconsider travel" to Canada mainly for the benefit of those not yet vaccinated against COVID-19. Dr. Rochelle Walensky says State Department t...