Denise Ryan Vancouver Sun On the eve of the launch of B.C.’s Vaccine Card verification system, downloading the vaccine card verifier app might seem like essential business to people curious about how it works and what information it reveals. ...

VICTORIA — Police on Vancouver Island say British Columbia's police watchdog has been called to investigate after an officer fatally shot an armed man on Sunday. They say Saanich officers responded to a report of man who was armed, in crisis and ma...

NEW YORK (AP) — A game from the end of his bid for what would have been the first calendar-year Grand Slam in men’s tennis since 1969, Novak Djokovic covered his face with a towel, hiding his tears during a changeover. For 27 Grand Slam matches i...

An armed man was fatally shot by a Victoria police officer on Sunday morning. No officers were injured in the incident, said Victoria police. Victoria Police Chief Del Manak offered condolences to the man’s family in a video address Sunday ni...

PORT RENFREW, B.C. — RCMP enforcement of a B.C. Supreme Court injunction against blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on Vancouver Island continued this weekend. The Mounties say they arrested 20 people on Friday, who were released in Lak...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The most notable catch in Saturday's game between No. 22 Miami and Appalachian State didn’t even happen on the field.Wasn’t even a football. It was a cat.The animal somehow got into Hard Rock Stadium, then got caught ...

MADISON, Conn. (AP) — Police in a wealthy Connecticut town where the 2010 killing of Barbara Hamburg remains unsolved are fighting a judge's order to turn over investigative files to two documentary filmmakers, including Hamburg's son.Madison polic...

VIENNA (AP) — Ethiopia’s Derara Hurisa was disqualified for wearing the wrong shoes after winning the Vienna Marathon on Sunday.The 24-year-old Hurisa crossed the line first by three seconds but was later told he had been disqualified because the...

MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sunday that Tropical Storm Nicholas has formed in the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical storm warnings were issued for coastal Texas and the northeast coast of Mexico. Nicholas is expec...

Students in both Saanich and Cowichan Valley school districts will be able to take an alternative educational path this year through a program where they go on multi-day wilderness trips and spend one day each week learning outdoors. The Take a H...

VANCOUVER — A controversial Alberta-based legal advocacy organization says it plans to file a court challenge to B.C.’s vaccine cards. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which last week announced it was planning to take the Ontar...

Jack Knox is dropping in on Vancouver Island’s seven federal ridings, looking at them through the lens of issues readers say are important in this election. Weekday afternoon, just after lunch. Nine or 10 mostly young people have queued up outs...

A Calgary company has bought 14 single-family houses in the heart of Esquimalt, where it proposes to replace the older homes with two five-storey rental buildings. Plans call for a total of 213 units rented at market rates at the Marin. The exist...

Population growth, the housing market and changing demographics will be among the many areas of interest when the Town of View Royal goes through the process of updating its Official Community Plan. Town staff will be leading outdoor neighbourhoo...

OTTAWA — A Toronto property developer who has worked tirelessly to help hundreds of people fleeing the Taliban settle in Canada — spending $50,000 to buy them essential supplies — has been praised as a "shining example of Canadian compassion" b...

VANCOUVER — A group of British Columbia community organizations wants changes to the province's COVID-19 vaccine card, saying it fails to account for the needs of people who face legitimate barriers to getting a vaccine or proof of immunization. A ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran agreed Sunday to allow international inspectors to install new memory cards into surveillance cameras at its sensitive nuclear sites and to continue filming there, potentially averting a diplomatic showdown this week. The a...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Women in Afghanistan can continue to study in universities, including at post-graduate levels, but classrooms will be gender-segregated and Islamic dress is compulsory, the Taliban government's new higher education ministe...

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $11 million jackpot in Saturday's Lotto 649 draw.However, the guaranteed $1 million prize went to a lottery player in the Prairies.The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Sept. 15 will be an estimated...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Milwaukee ace Corbin Burnes combined with reliever Josh Hader to pitch baseball’s record ninth no-hitter this season, breaking a mark set when pitchers began throwing overhand in 1884 as the Brewers beat the Cleveland Indians 3-0...