WASHINGTON (AP) — It looked like a zombie apocalypse.For the U.S. military pilots and aircrew about to make their final takeoffs out of Afghanistan, the sky was lit up with fireworks and sporadic gunfire and the airfield littered with battered shel...

RICHMOND — A new study has found that B.C. drivers are using their phone more while on the road during the pandemic, according to ICBC. The Ipsos Reid survey, conducted for ICBC in May, found that while 93 per cent of drivers believe texting wh...

One more person with COVID-19 has died in Island Health, bringing the number of deaths in the region since Aug. 20 to five. British Columbia reported 785 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday as the number of people being treated in intensive care u...

VICTORIA — B.C. Premier John Horgan expressed his gratitude to health-care workers on Wednesday after protests outside some hospitals in the province.The provincial government will require proof of vaccination against COVID-19 later this month from...

The man who died in an early-morning homicide in Rockland on Tuesday has been identified by his partner as Victoria artist Jeremy Gordaneer.“He touched so so many ­people with his talent — his gentle genius — his wry sense of humour,” Thea P...

Health-care workers were abused and harassed at ­anti-vaccine ­rallies outside B.C. hospitals on Wednesday.Kathy MacNeil, president and CEO of the Island Health, said some workers at health-care facilities were verbally abused as they came to and f...

WINNIPEG — Manitoba's new premier, expected to hold the job for less than nine weeks, is promising to kill five bills currently before the legislature, including one that would overhaul the education system.Kelvin Goertzen, who was chosen interim l...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers looking to remake the state's voter-passed medical marijuana law previewed a coming battle in the Legislature Wednesday as they recommended outlawing growing medical marijuana in homes and allowing lo...

VANCOUVER — The BC Conservation Officer Service says two four-year-old children suffered minor injuries in coyote attacks in Vancouver's popular Stanley Park on Tuesday.The service says on social media it "cannot stress enough" that people should a...

YELLOWKNIFE — Two communities in the Northwest Territories under lockdown orders since mid-August will see those orders lifted late Saturday as active cases of COVID-19 start to decline across the territory.Colville Lake and Fort Good Hope have fac...

Ontario on Wednesday joined the growing list of provinces introducing COVID-19 vaccine passport systems. Here's a look at what the provinces and territories have said about their proof-of-vaccination programs, or lack thereof. British ColumbiaResiden...

BENI, Congo (AP) — Rebels in eastern Congo ambushed a stalled civilian convoy that was under military escort Wednesday, killing five people and abducting dozens of hostages initially. About 20 people remained missing hours later, the army said.The ...

B.C. Ferries is running a month-long pilot program with late-night sailings between the Lower Mainland and Nanaimo to serve the commercial sector. The sailings will be on the Duke Point-Tsawwassen run between Sept. 7 and Oct. 7 on the Queen of Ne...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen abducted 73 students in yet another school attack in northwestern Nigeria on Wednesday, police said, prompting authorities to close all primary and secondary schools across Zamfara state.The new kidnappings came just da...

Quebec Premier François Legault has welcomed Pierre Fitzgibbon back to cabinet after he withdrew in June because of ethics violations.Legault told a news conference today alongside Fitzgibbon that he will resume his role as economy minister after he...

VICTORIA — The number of wildfires burning in British Columbia has remained steady in the range of 225 as the number of properties on evacuation order and on alert dropped in the latest statistics released by the provincial government.Emergency Man...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Favorable weather helped firefighters trying to save communities on the south end of Lake Tahoe from an approaching wildfire, but officials warned Wednesday that stiff winds and dry conditions mean that homes in the ...

WINNIPEG — SkipTheDishes is testing a new business model to help it sell household goods and groceries directly to customers.The delivery service's new offering called Skip Express Lane has two locations that operate like a ghost kitchen, where sal...

DENVER (AP) — Three suburban Denver police officers and two paramedics were indicted on manslaughter and other charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man put into a chokehold and injected with a powerful sedative in a fata...

A man has been charged with second-degree murder after a woman died early Tuesday in Bowser, northwest of Qualicum Beach. Luciano Emilio Mariani, born in 1978 and of no fixed address, was charged in connection with the death. The deceased is iden...