WASHINGTON — In the before times, Katie McCarron could count on her best Canadian customers to make the trip to her store in Portland, Oregon, to stock up on their favourite high-quality, human-grade pet food. COVID-19 had other plans. Soon enough,...

VANCOUVER — As a teenager, Murray Ned was accustomed to fishing for salmon three days a week all year round on the Fraser River in southwestern British Columbia.Three decades later, the longtime Sumas First Nation councillor and member of the joint...

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $5 million jackpot in Saturday's Lotto 649 draw.However, the draw's guaranteed $1 million prize went to a lottery player in Quebec.The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Sept. 29 will be an estimated...

JERUSALEM (AP) — At least four Palestinian gunmen were killed in shootouts with Israeli security forces during a sweeping West Bank arrest operation cracking down on the Islamic militant group Hamas on Sunday, the Israeli military said Sunday.It wa...

A motor vehicle crash claimed the life of a 35-year-old Oceanside man on Friday night.Oceanside RCMP said a car travelling north on the Inland Island Highway around 10 p.m. rolled after driving off the road at the Exit 51 offramp to Parksville.The ca...

Saying the time is right to make it happen, a small group hit the legislature lawn Saturday to push the country to adopt a guaranteed basic income.Organized by Basic Income B.C., and held in conjunction with similar rallies around Canada at the end o...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Fourteen Mexican army soldiers were briefly detained and then returned to Mexico after they crossed into the U.S. at a border bridge in El Paso, Texas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement that two Mexican milit...

A 29-year-old man is facing firearm offences after a mid-evening July traffic stop in Nanaimo yielded a cache of arms and drug paraphernalia.Declan O’Reilly, who is expected to appear in Nanaimo provincial court Sept. 28, has been charged with seve...

Lisa Marie Barron, the NDP candidate in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith riding, was leading when polls closed on election night, and when all the special ballots had been counted four days later she was still on top and will represent the riding in Ottawa. ...

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — The Texas border crossing where thousands of Haitian migrants converged in recent weeks will be partially reopened late Saturday afternoon, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.The agency issued a statement saying trade and...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge just days before it was to take effect.The worker mandate for the the nation’s larg...

EDMONTON — Four years before a mother and her 16-month-old son were killed in western Alberta, police had warned the public that a registered sex offender would be released and there was a chance he could harm "a female, including children."Robert ...

Two Canadians who languished in Chinese prisons for nearly three years held emotional reunions with their loved ones on Saturday after the culmination of a geopolitical saga that saw them return safely to Canadian soil.Michael Kovrig and Michael Spav...

B.C.’s Health Ministry is being criticized for how it publicly reports the number of COVID patients in intensive-care beds. Ministry numbers only include people who are infectious and not those who are still recovering in intensive care. B.C. G...

A newly updated animal ­responsibility bylaw in Nanaimo bans cats from running loose on public property — or on ­someone else’s property — ­without permission, and puts limits on how long a dog can bark non-stop. It also sets the maximum...

Island Health is looking for places where people who live in shelters or on the street can isolate if they contract COVID-19.On Friday, chief medical health officer Dr. Richard Stanwick said earlier in the pandemic, Island Health had spaces where peo...

Robots with cat-like faces are pitching in at two Vancouver Island restaurants to deliver food and drinks to customers at a time when the hospitality sector is desperate for staff. Customers are enchanted by the devices, which can be programmed t...

A Coast Salish artist from Chemainus has been selected to create art to adorn a new ferry set to serve Pender, Saturna, Mayne and Galiano islands beginning next year. The Salish Heron, under construction in Poland, will be the fourth Salish-class...

Victoria council has approved a project to overhaul two heritage buildings in Old Town to make way for a 139-room hotel. The 127-year-old Duck’s Building and the adjacent Duck’s Carriage Factory, also known as the Canada Hotel at Broad and Jo...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban hanged a dead body from a crane parked in a city square in Afghanistan on Saturday in a gruesome display that signaled the hard-line movement’s return to some of its brutal tactics of the past. Taliban offici...