Residents of seniors homes need COVID-19 booster shots now — not in October, as planned — amid increasing outbreaks, the president of the B.C. Care Providers Association said Thursday. Terry Lake, a former B.C. health minister, said immunity ...

A campfire ban on northern Vancouver Island is being lifted but remains in place in the south.Campfires smaller than 50 centimetres across will be allowed north of Union Bay on the east coast and Nootka Sound on the west coast starting at noon Friday...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appealed a judge's ruling that the governor exceeded his authority by ordering school boards not to impose strict mask requirements on students to combat the spread of the coronavirus.The go...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A British national admitted Thursday evening in a federal courtroom near the nation's capital that he played a leadership role in an Islamic State scheme to torture, hold for ransom and eventually behead American hostages.Ale...

B.C.’s education minister says parents who are worried about schools not sending out exposure notifications this year should know they will be notified if their child has come into contact with someone with the COVID-19 virus. Jennifer Whitesid...

The murder of Jeremy Gordaneer in Rockland on Tuesday has shattered Victoria’s tight-knit art community, says a former director of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria who is now a senator.“Everybody is feeling a very real sense of loss, a sense o...

A nurse heading to work was spat at during a protest Wednesday, Nanaimo RCMP say. The woman told police the man was participating in an anti-­vaccine-card rally outside Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, Const. Gary O’Brien said. The protest...

A Port Alberni woman is facing a charge of manslaughter in the shooting death of her son Sunday evening.Samantha Jesselynn ­Dittmer was arrested at her home on 18th Avenue shortly after 6 p.m. on Aug. 29. She appeared before a justice of the peace a...

British Columbia has reinstated restrictions on gatherings in the Northern Health region because of a spike in COVID-19 cases fuelled by the Delta variant. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said starting Tuesday, indoor gatherings will be re...

VANCOUVER — A group representing drug users has filed a lawsuit against the federal government in British Columbia Supreme Court seeking to decriminalize the possession of illicit drugs, arguing criminalization during the overdose crisis violates c...

New restrictions on gatherings will come into effect in the Northern Health region on Tuesday as COVID-19 cases “explode” in many communities in that region, with a multi-fold increase in cases since July and more than 100 new cases on Thursday...

British Columbia is reinstating restrictions on gatherings in the Northern Health region because of a spike in COVID-19 cases fuelled by the Delta variant.Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says starting Tuesday, indoor gatherings will be res...

WINNIPEG — Manitoba's education minister says he wants to repair relationships with teachers and parents who were highly critical of a bill the new premier has promised to scrap.Cliff Cullen says the bill, which would have eliminated all English-la...

WINNIPEG — Police say a Winnipeg man is facing almost a dozen charges related to sexual assaults alleged to have occurred more than 25 years ago.Police said Thursday the sex crimes unit was contacted earlier this summer by two complainants who said...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s Sept. 14 recall election could remove first-term Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office. Just over 5 million mail-in ballots — the form of voting most Californians use — already have been returned out of 22 m...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota prosecutors filed a more serious charge Thursday against the former suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, but it is not the murder charge that activist...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A former Georgia prosecutor was indicted Thursday on misconduct charges alleging she used her position to shield the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery from being charged with crimes immediately after the shootings.A grand...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Four nursing home residents in Louisiana died after being evacuated during Hurricane Ida to a warehouse where conditions were later determined to be unhealthy and unsafe, according to state health officials who said Thursda...

MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge says a mother is allowed to have her 12-year-old son vaccinated against COVID-19 despite the father's opposition.In a judgment rendered last week, Justice Aline U.K. Quach ruled the boy can be vaccinated in ...

QUEBEC — A disorganized and poorly evaluated health system for seniors contributed to the high COVID-19 death toll in the province, according to Quebec's health and welfare commissioner.Joanne Castonguay released her preliminary report Thursday abo...