Island Health’s top doctor confirmed Friday there are several clusters of COVID-19 cases in Victoria’s temporary housing facilities. Chief medical health officer Dr. Richard Stanwick said the cases aren’t deemed a full-fledged outbreak, add...

JEFF BELL Times Colonist Officers with Victoria and Central Saanich police are looking for a man suspected of trying to ram a woman and her two friends with a vehicle and driving a truck onto the hood of a Central Saanich police vehicle. Warr...

The Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs is suing Ottawa, saying laws criminalizing the drugs behind the overdose crisis are unconstitutional. The suit says criminalization of drugs has created fear among drug users and resulted in stigma...

Four capital region schools will be getting new accessible playgrounds as part of a provincial plan to add 60 new play facilities throughout B.C. The province is putting $10 million into the playgrounds this year, with $165,000 going into each pr...

Some southern resident killer whales in J-Pod returned to the Salish Sea this week, likely as “scouts” looking for salmon around the Fraser and Puget Sound river systems, observers say. Several members of J-Pod were spotted in Active Pass, Ge...

Ninety new COVID-19 cases were reported in Island Health — tying the record set just two days earlier — along with one additional death. Island Health now has 539 active cases. Fifty-four people with COVID-19 have died in the region since the...

B.C.’s Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed complaints against provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Premier John Horgan that asserted British Columbians’ human rights had been violated on the grounds of disability and political belief....

VICTORIA — British Columbia health officials are reporting 820 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the active infections in the province to 5,850.In a news release Friday, they say another nine people have died from the virus, which brings the total numbe...

LONDON (AP) — Lawyers for an American woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Prince Andrew say they have served him with legal papers in a U.S. civil suit.Attorneys for Virginia Giuffre say the documents were handed over to a Metropolitan ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman pleaded guilty Friday to helping plan the killings of eight members of a family, becoming the second member of her own family to admit to a role in a shocking crime prosecutors say stemmed from a dispute over cus...

WINNIPEG — Saskatchewan quarterback Cody Fajardo is determined to rebound from a poor outing and avenge last week’s loss to the Blue Bombers at the Labour Day Classic in Regina. Fajardo completed 23-of-39 passes for only 211 yards, with no touchd...

A seven-year-old child died in a Sooke crash that saw four other family members taken to hospital with critical injuries on Tuesday. Sooke RCMP confirmed Friday that the single-car crash in the 5800 block of Sooke Road “claimed the life of a se...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin woman who admitted to helping stab a classmate to please online horror character Slender Man will be freed Monday from a mental health institution under strict conditions, a judge ruled Friday.Anissa Weier, 19, wil...

A man is in custody and two Victoria police officers were sent to hospital after an altercation Friday morning in the Jubilee neighbourhood.The two officers were assaulted while trying to apprehend a man who reportedly had been making threats of viol...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday provided the first public look inside a U.S. military base where Afghans airlifted out of Afghanistan are being screened, amid questions about how the government is caring for the refugees an...

A Vernon man who was convicted after a sophisticated mobile fentanyl and methamphetamine laboratory was raided in 2017 has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The case was the first B.C. prosecution involving a large-scale fentanyl synthesis la...

VANCOUVER — After a surge in demand for medical letters for vaccine exemptions, Dr. Shane Barclay has reached his limit. In a letter to patients this week, Barclay said no exemption letters will be written for patients unless they meet the crit...

WINNIPEG — One person running to become Manitoba's next premier said Friday she opposes COVID-19 vaccine mandates for frontline workers. Shelly Glover also said that if elected leader of the governing Progressive Conservatives, she would review how...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli media reports say two more of the six Palestinian who broke out of a maximum-security prison this week have been arrested at dawn Saturday, leaving two prisoners at large.The prisoners captured included Zakaria Zubeidi, a w...

One of the Salish Orca’s thrusters broke down outside Powell River on Thursday afternoon, but the ferry managed to offload its passengers and continue to Comox. After the thruster failed, a tug helped the Salish Orca to dock at Powell River and...