The Town of Qualicum Beach has posted an online survey asking residents whether backyard chickens belong in the waterfront community. Backyard chickens were on the way out after council voted in March to prohibit them in residential areas following ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The popular mayor of the Philippine capital said Wednesday he will run for president in next year’s elections, the latest aspirant in what is expected to be a crowded race to succeed the controversial Rodrigo Duterte.Ma...

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Many Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town are being released in the United States, two U.S. officials said Tuesday, undercutting the Biden administration's public statements that the thousands in the camp faced...

Victoria police are searching for a high-risk missing 16-year-old.Zenaeh Edwards-Helgason was last seen Sept. 13. Police said they do not have any indication that she is at risk of immediate harm, but the circumstances of her disappearance and her ag...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Kotzebue man was sentenced to 99 years in prison Tuesday in the death of Ashley Johnson-Barr, a 10-year-old whose 2018 disappearance captured national attention.Peter Vance Wilson, 44, had earlier pleaded guilty to charge...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A magnitude 5.9 earthquake caused some damage in suburban Melbourne on Wednesday in an unusually powerful temblor for Australia.The quake hit about 130 kilometers (80 miles) northeast of Australia’s second-most populou...

Saanich police have arrested a 43-year-old Saanich man in connection with a Sept. 10 sexual assault on a B.C. Transit bus. He has been released on conditions and is expected to be in court later this year. The investigation is ongoing. The as...

VICTORIA — British Columbia is reversing course on notifying parents about COVID-19 exposures at schools after the provincial health officer previously said reporting of single cases caused too much anxiety.Dr. Bonnie Henry said Tuesday that parent...

A Tuesday morning fire that did extensive damage to a Duncan church is considered suspicious. North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP were alerted just after 8 a.m. that smoke was coming from the Brae Road Gospel Chapel, and attended along with the Duncan Fir...

Five COVID patients from Northern Health — where just 65 per cent of those eligible are fully vaccinated — will be moved to Island Health intensive-care and high-acuity units, Health Minister Adrian Dix said Tuesday.The province expects critical-...

One of the most prolific matriarchs among the remaining southern resident killer whales has gone missing and is presumed dead. L47, also known as Marina, has not been seen since Feb. 27, despite census surveys by the Department of Fisheries and O...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Who should represent Afghanistan at the United Nations this month? It's a complex question with plenty of political implications. The Taliban, the country's new rulers for a matter of weeks, are challenging the credentials of ...

A number of unvaccinated pregnant women are critically ill with COVID-19 in intensive-care units in B.C., Dr. Bonnie Henry said Tuesday, as she urged women who are pregnant or thinking of having a baby to be immunized.Over the course of the pandemic,...

WASHINGTON — With the federal election in the books and the United States clearly in no hurry to reopen the Canada-U.S. border, experts say the federal Liberal government should think about rebooting the way it deals with the country's largest and ...

BOSTON (AP) — A group of high school students in Massachusetts had to ride on a party bus complete with a stripper pole and neon lights during a recent field trip — an experience their teacher said highlights problems with the education system.Ji...

BOSTON (AP) — A former Massachusetts mayor, once a rising Democratic star after being elected at just 23 years old, was sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday after being convicted of extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from marijuana b...

Dr. Bonnie Henry says public health officials have heard from parents and will change course this week on how parents and schools are updated on COVID cases and clusters in schools.During the past school year, lists of school exposures — cases dete...

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, facing a mushrooming COVID-19 hospital crisis that now threatens to topple him as leader, accepted the resignation of his health minister Tuesday.Kenney said it was Tyler Shandro’s idea to leave the health...

The Vancouver Island Raiders Football Club lost about $15,000 worth of equipment when a locker room in a downtown Nanaimo park was broken into. Nanaimo RCMP said the theft took place between 10 p.m. Sept. 14 and 5:30 p.m. Sept. 15 at Comox Park G...

VERNON, B.C. — One person has been killed in a shooting near Vernon, B.C. RCMP say they responded to reports of a vehicle fleeing the scene of a possible shooting on Monday. A body was discovered when officers arrived.A suspect vehicle was spotted ...