JERUSALEM (AP) — The last two of six Palestinian prisoners who escaped a maximum-security Israeli prison two weeks ago were rearrested early Sunday, the Israeli military said.The two were captured during an Israeli army raid in their hometown of Je...

VICTORIA — Five people were arrested after the chief of the Victoria Police Department had liquid poured on him while attending a ceremony for an Indigenous woman killed during a wellness check.Victoria police say Chief Del Manak was attending an e...

Kenneth Branagh's semi-autobiographical "Belfast," a black-and-white family drama about the Northern Ireland city during the tumult of the late 1960s, on Saturday won the Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award, a telling indicato...

A cluster of COVID-19 infections has been reported at Sir James Douglas Elementary School in Victoria. A notice posted on the Island Health website says the potential exposure date was Sept. 17. A cluster is when there are two or more confirmed...

A peaceful march seeking justice for Chantel Moore, the 26-year-old Indigenous woman shot to death in New Brunswick last year, turned ugly Saturday when a woman assaulted Victoria Police Chief Del Manak. The chief had been invited to the memorial...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four space tourists safely ended their trailblazing trip to orbit Saturday with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the ocean just before sunset, not far from where th...

Green Party Leader Annamie Paul punctuated the end of the federal election campaign Saturday with an unexpected last-minute trip to Victoria to boost B.C. candidates. This province has a history of electing Greens “who know how to play nicely w...

AMHERST, N.S. — The obituary of a Nova Scotia family who died in a fire in a travel trailer a week ago is providing further details about the mother, father and four young children.The information published by a funeral home in Amherst, N.S., says ...

CHARLOTTETOWN — Prince Edward Island's Opposition leader says a rise in COVID-19 cases has revealed the inappropriateness of a public scolding dished out by the premier over criticisms of the government's back-to-school pandemic policies.Green Part...

MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge has ruled a juror doesn't need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to participate in a Montreal fraud trial.Justice Mario Longpré wrote in ruling released Friday that full immunization wasn't necessary ...

Ten Island communities will share more than $4 million in provincial funding to establish or improve their active transportation infrastructure. The money comes from the province’s Active Transportation Infrastructure Grants program, which has ...

SALMON ARM, B.C. — A British Columbia school district says it will begin locking its schools' outside doors during classtime after protesters opposed to COVID-19 protective measures entered several facilities on Friday. School District 83 (Nort...

MARY'S HARBOUR, N.L. — A search is underway for an overdue fishing vessel with two men on board that departed a small coastal community in Labrador on Friday morning.The nine-metre boat with two outboard motors departed the community of Mary's Harb...

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservative premier has asked people who protested proof-of-vaccination policies outside the home of the province's chief medical officer of health to consider acting more like adults.Tim Houston released a vide...

PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s most wanted militant with ties to the Islamic State group was killed Saturday in a shootout with security forces, the Indonesian military said, in a sweeping counterterrorism campaign against extremists in the r...

A Canadian-led team of scientists has concluded that tropical coral reefs that feed millions around the world have lost about half their ability to support human communities since 1950. "I don't think any of us expected the declines to be as...

A Saanichton farmer’s mission to help drought- and fire-ravaged ranchers is now well into a ­second month — and reaching farther afield. Bryce Rashleigh has shipped bales as far east as Wainwright, Alta., and next week is heading to a cattle...

Oak Bay residents will soon learn how well the municipality’s birth-control program for deer is working. Preliminary results are “really positive,” wildlife biologist Alina Fisher said Friday. “It looks like the immuno-contraceptive is ha...

Months after being diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat, Eileen Bell awoke in late August to a squeezing feeling in her chest, an aching jaw and a computerized watch indicating her heart rate was soaring. “I was concerned I was ­having a hear...

A Comox Valley-based “dog whisperer” has been granted a second opportunity to assess a dangerous dog held in custody at the Victoria city pound since March. On Thursday, dog ­behaviourist Ken Griffiths applied to the provincial court for a s...