In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Sept. 24 ...What we are watching in Canada ...EDMONTON — The head of Alberta's health system s...

The province will not be cut out of the West Coast cruise industry without a fight, Premier John Horgan said.In remarks to reporters Thursday, the premier said he has spoken with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillma...

CHILLIWACK, B.C. — British Columbia's naloxone supply is depleted, forcing some police agencies to buy their own supplies of the overdose-reversing drug.Premier John Horgan says his government is working to allocate funding to buy more naloxone kit...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Friday her country is willing to resume talks with South Korea if it doesn’t provoke the North with hostile policies and double standards. Kim Yo Jong’s st...

VICTORIA — COVID-19 cases in British Columbia are trending upwards as the province's vaccination rate slowly rises.The Ministry of Health reported 832 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the total number of active cases to 5,697.There are 148 ...

Over half a million dollars has been donated to the Capital Regional District animal shelter in honour of a beloved pet.The $518,000 gift from the estate of Francis Gordon Ainsworth, who died in December 2020, recognizes Whiskey the cat — who was w...

Victoria police have released surveillance video of what they’re calling a hate crime targeting St. Andrew’s Cathedral at View and Blanshard streets.The video shows two people spraying graffiti and doing “other damage” to the ­19th-century c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has subpoenaed four advisers and associates to former President Donald Trump who were in contact with him before and during the attack. The panel subpoena...

VANCOUVER — A wildfire that began on Aug. 2 in British Columbia and grew to more than 833 square kilometres is now estimated to have caused $77 million in insurance damage.The cost estimate from the Insurance Bureau of Canada says the so-called Whi...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi House and Senate negotiators said Thursday that they have agreed on a proposed medical marijuana program. Leaders are expected to ask Republican Gov. Tate Reeves to call the Legislature into session to put the plan...

CHILLIWACK — Canada's premiers are urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet with them at his earliest opportunity to discuss long-term, predictable funding for health care.Premiers from all the provinces and territories are part of a group call...

WHITEHORSE — The RCMP and Yukon’s Department of Education acknowledged failures as they apologized for the handling of a sexual assault investigation at Hidden Valley Elementary School in Whitehorse. "We should have done better," RCMP Chief Supt....

VANCOUVER — A new study has found homes close to where fracking was used to extract natural gas in British Columbia have higher levels of certain organic pollutants, which may lead to short- and long-term health effects. Élyse Caron-Beaudoin, lead...

OTTAWA — Canada's premiers are demanding a meeting with the newly re-elected prime minister to ask for more money — no strings attached — to pump into their health-care systems. The provincial and territorial leaders held a teleconference Thurs...

LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia resident Katie Orndoff was in court to testify at the domestic assault trial of her boyfriend, who was accused of punching her in the face last year. Her reaction when she found out she was the one who'd be going to ja...

A former Louisiana State Police trooper has been charged with a civil rights violation for pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight — the first criminal case to emerge from federal investigations into troopers' beatings of at least thr...

COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A shooting at a Tennessee grocery store left one person dead and 12 others injured Thursday afternoon, and the shooter was subsequently found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at the store east of Memphis, ...

Premier John Horgan says police departments will continue to have provincially funded naloxone kits to reverse potentially fatal opioid overdoses, after law-enforcement agencies raised the alarm this week that stockpiles had dwindled and funding had ...

OTTAWA — Experts warn the Liberals’ promise to legislate safety in long-term care will have to come with more money if new national care standards are going to fix what’s broken in the system.The COVID-19 pandemic shone a glaring spotlight on t...

OTTAWA — Some re-elected Conservative members of Parliament — along with a former leadership contender — are lining up to say others should get united behind leader Erin O'Toole, as questions swirl about whether his election performance warrant...