BANGKOK (AP) — Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has won a confidence vote in Parliament after a frenzy of speculation over the makeup of the ruling coalition. Rumors his own political allies might try to unseat him had recently overshadowed ha...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A state judge has shielded, for now, Texas abortion clinics from lawsuits by an anti-abortion group under a new state abortion law in a narrow ruling handed down Friday.The temporary restraining order Friday by state District J...

Oak Bay Police are looking for help in identifying a man seen smashing automated bank machines with a hammer.Police said the man walked into two different Oak Bay banks about 11:30 p.m. on Sept. 1 and smashed the ATMs with a hammer before leaving.The...

A float plane remained in the water near Honeymoon Bay on Cowichan Lake Friday afternoon after crashing in the early afternoon. According to B.C. RCMP, the pilot was the only one aboard the plane and escaped with minor injuries. B.C. Emergency ...

VICTORIA — British Columbia has reported 671 new cases of COVID-19 and three more deaths. The Ministry of Health said on Friday that 5,872 infections were active across the province, with about 33 per cent located in the Interior Health region, nea...

CRESTON, B.C. — RCMP are investigating the death of a child who sustained serious injuries at a campground in southeast British Columbia earlier this week. They say officers responded along with the provincial ambulance service on Monday to a repor...

OTTAWA — Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin's lawyers are fighting a federal attempt to quash their client's lawsuit over his removal as head of Canada's vaccine distribution campaign. In a newly filed Federal Court submission, they say the government's motion ...

VICTORIA — There will be more provincial conservation officers and Tahltan guardians patrolling the nation's territory in northwestern British Columbia this hunting season. The province and the Tahltan Central Government say in a joint statement th...

A Victoria police officer is recuperating with potentially life-altering injuries after being attacked by a man late Thursday night in Banfield Park in Vic West. The officer, who has not been identified by Victoria police, is at home with his fam...

SMITHERS, B.C. — British Columbia’s minister of Indigenous relations and reconciliation says the progress on a memorandum of understanding signed last year marking the start of a new relationship between the hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en ...

EDMONTON — Premier Jason Kenney, two months after declaring victory over COVID-19, is offering $100 to Albertans who aren't vaccinated to try to curb nation-leading cases of the illness that have again pushed the province's hospitals to the brink.K...

IQALUIT — Nunavut is reporting one new case of COVID-19, the territory's first since June. The case is in Rankin Inlet, a community of about 3,000 people in Nunavut's central region. Acting chief public health officer Dr. Rosann Seviour says the pe...

MONTREAL — A Black Montreal man wrongfully arrested and detained for six days who is suing police and prosecutors for more than $1 million was not the victim of racial profiling, a judge concluded in a report released Friday.Police and prosecutors ...

OTTAWA — Canada's chief public health officer says there is an urgent need for more people between 18 and 39 to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to reduce the impact of the Delta variant."This is a crucial moment," Dr. Theresa Tam said Friday at her...

VERNON, B.C. — One of the largest and most destructive wildfires in British Columbia this summer was being held on Friday, meaning it was not likely to spread beyond its existing containment lines.The provincial wildfire service says hundreds of pe...

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government says it will recognize a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation as a day of observance to encourage reflection and meaningful discussions about the impacts of residential schools.Indigenous Reconciliation and N...

MONTREAL — Items used by a three-year-old boy and his alleged kidnapper have been found on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River northeast of Quebec City in a discovery that police said is a sign the pair is alive and in the area.Quebec provinc...

Saanich police are asking for witnesses and dash-cam footage after an incident early Friday that shut down the Trans-Canada Highway between Carey and Tillicum roads and that stretch of the Galloping Goose Regional Trail for several hours. Saanich...

BOSTON (AP) — Former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the once-powerful American prelate who was expelled from the priesthood for sexual abuse, pleaded not guilty Friday to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy during a wedding reception...

LEBANON, Ore. (AP) — Fourteen people were arrested and 1,400 pounds of pot were seized east of Corvallis in Lebanon in connection to two large illegal marijuana grow operations, authorities said. The Linn Interagency Narcotics Enforcement team sear...