Victoria police say a man wanted for allegedly driving a truck onto the hood of a police vehicle in Central Saanich and attempting to ram three pedestrians near Dallas Road was arrested Tuesday. The Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team worked...

Two Nanaimo city workers and a contractor acted quickly Wednesday afternoon to help an elderly couple escape a house fire.The fire appears to have started near the back deck of the couple’s home in the 1900-block of Estevan Road in Nanaimo around 1...

The province is asking British Columbians how many days of paid sick leave workers should have access to as it prepares new regulations set to come into effect Jan. 1.The goal is to provide paid sick leave to just over one million people in B.C. who ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — An alleged top lieutenant of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel has been accused of helping smuggle tons of methamphetamine, fentanyl, heroin and other drugs into the United States, federal authorities said Wednesday.A 2018 indictment by...

The COVID-19 death toll in British Columbia jumped to 1,910 as another 10 people died over a 24-hour period, including one in the Island Health region. The Ministry of Health said Wednesday the province had recorded 759 new cases of COVID-19, inc...

BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota woman accused in the July 2019 starvation death of a 3-year-old girl was sentenced Wednesday to 75 years in prison.Renae Fayant, 27, and Robert Price, Jr., 29, both of Brookings, are accused in the death of Fay...

VICTORIA — The COVID-19 death toll in British Columbia jumped to 1,910 as another 10 people died over a 24-hour period. The Ministry of Health says the province recorded 759 new cases of COVID-19, pushing active cases to 5,458.The ministry says 324...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge dismissed some of the biggest remaining lawsuits over Ohio State's failure to stop decades-old sexual abuse by now-deceased team doctor Richard Strauss, saying Wednesday it’s indisputable Strauss abused hundr...

YELLOWKNIFE — The Northwest Territories is introducing stricter public health measures and extending current orders as the territory continues to deal with an outbreak of COVID-19. Starting Saturday, public gatherings in the capital of Yellowknife ...

VERNON, B.C. — A man has been charged with second-degree murder after a fatal shooting in British Columbia's Interior on Monday.RCMP say they responded to reports of shooting near Vernon and discovered a man's body at the scene.They say a man was a...

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Wednesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:Toronto Stock Exchange (20,401.49, up 157.20 points.)Baytex Energy Corp. (TSX:BTE). Energy. Up 34 cents, or 12.14 per cent, to $3.14 on 14.9 million shares.C...

New research shows that roads and runways quieted by COVID-19 are filling with birdsong instead.University of Manitoba scientists led a study drawing on millions of sightings by amateur birders across North America that looked at how reduced travel i...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Upgrades to communications systems in British Columbia's wildfire zones are needed to save lives and properties, says a report released Wednesday.The Thompson Rivers University report, which examined B.C.'s communications practices...

OTTAWA — Further deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines to Canada are on pause because provinces already have more doses than they can currently use.Canada was to get 95 million doses of vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna by the end of September, bu...

OTTAWA — The lawyers for an Ottawa bus driver charged in connection with a deadly crash in 2019 say their client's acquittal has been a long time coming.Aissatou Diallo was found not guilty on all charges in an Ottawa court on Wednesday — three c...

OTTAWA — The Green Party faces a self-reckoning after a federal election that dashed hopes of growth following a year marred by internal strife, say Green officials past and present.Leader Annamie Paul finished fourth in her riding of Toronto Centr...

Dothan Eagle. September 20, 2021. Editorial: A fast track for medical cannabisCertain Alabamians will be greatly pleased to learn that an initiative to provide medical cannabis in our state has been so productive that products may become available ah...

MONTREAL — The owner of a Montreal long-term care home where 47 residents died during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic told a coroner's inquiry Wednesday she was relieved when government officials came to help.Samantha Chowieri said she star...

Greenwood Commonwealth. Sept. 21, 2021.Editorial: College board’s risky decisionMississippi’s College Board certainly had the right to decide that the eight public universities it supervises cannot require students, faculty and staff to get the C...

VANCOUVER — Homicide investigators say more charges have been laid against the suspect in a stabbing attack that killed one woman and injured six other people in North Vancouver in March.A statement from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team s...