VICTORIA — British Columbia's health minister and top public health doctor are set to provide an update today on the COVID-19 situation. Adrian Dix and Dr. Bonnie Henry are due to speak at noon. The province last reported daily case numbers on Frid...

OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge is set to rule today on Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin’s request for reinstatement as the head of Canada’s vaccine distribution campaign.The ruling by Justice Ann Marie McDonald follows a two-day hearing last month in whic...

The majority of respondents in a newly released Canada-wide survey say they are concerned about the spread of COVID-19 in schools and want children and staff to wear masks. The survey by the Canadian Hub for Applied and Social Research at the Uni...

B.C.’s long-term care homes and assisted living facilities will again be able to request staff work in more than one facility should they face staff shortages. A last-minute public health order to that effect was issued as employees at such fac...

Raiders coach Jon Gruden frequently used misogynistic and homophobic language directed at Commissioner Roger Goodell and others in the NFL, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.Exposing of the insensitive emails comes just days after it...

Vancouver police are investigating a crash that has claimed the life of a man near Jericho Beach.Police say officers responded to multiple 911 calls of a man driving erratically Sunday night. They say the driver hit a tree, and after several unsucces...

BOSTON (AP) — With fall foliage replacing the blooming daffodils and mylar blankets sharing space with masks, the pandemic-delayed Boston Marathon returned Monday after a 30-month absence for a smaller, socially distanced race that ended in a very ...

When the phone rang around 2 a.m. telling David Card that he won the Nobel Prize for Economics, the Canadian-born economist thought it was a stunt. But when he saw the phone showing a Swedish number he thought maybe it wasn't a joke after all. ...

Vancouver police say charges have been approved against a 22-year-old alleged gang member who police say they believe is involved in the Lower Mainland gang conflict. Police say investigators working under Taskforce Threshold, an initiative created t...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Members of a U.S. Marshals Service task force will not be charged in the fatal shooting of Winston Smith Jr., a Black man who was killed while authorities were trying to arrest him as he sat in an SUV at a Minneapolis parking ra...

OTTAWA — Residents should feel at home, respected, and safe in long-term care but the current reality doesn't come close, says a survey that will inform new national standards of care. The survey was conducted by the National Institute on Aging on ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's coronavirus death toll reached another once-unfathomable milestone — 70,000 people — on Monday as the state emerges from the latest infection surge with the lowest rate of new cases among all states. Last ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lev Parnas once pitched himself in TV interviews and through an unorthodox publicity campaign by his lawyer as someone who could expose corruption in the Trump Administration over its dealings in Ukraine.Less than two years later an...

Canadians immunized against COVID-19 with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine can visit the United States when new travel regulations come into play next month, but it's not yet clear whether those with mixed doses will make the cut. The U.S. Centers for ...

MONTREAL — Former Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre says he doesn’t want the city’s upcoming municipal election to be a referendum on his personality, but it's not clear if Montrealers will agree.The race to lead Canada's second-biggest city pits Co...

EDMONTON — One of the most destructive and rapidly spreading invasive species on the continent has been found for the first time in a Canadian national park. Wild pigs, which tear up landscapes and eat everything from roots to bird eggs to deer, ar...

OTTAWA — The aftermath of Canada's long fight with China over the imprisonment of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig has spawned a new challenge: whether to join allies such as the United States and Australia in taking a more confrontational stance ...

LONDON (AP) — In the battle against climate change, everyone can do their bit.For Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, it can be anything from ditching dairy for one day a week to filling up a 51-year-old Aston Martin with some surplus E...

NEW YORK (AP) — As U.S. forces left Afghanistan this summer and the Taliban seized control, Hillary Rodham Clinton responded not just as a former secretary of state but in a capacity she never imagined for herself — as a novelist seeing her first...

Campbell River RCMP are on the lookout for a boat, engine and trailer taken from the front yard of a home.A 14-foot Lund aluminum boat, a 25-horsepower Yamaha tiller engine and an EZ loader trailer were stolen Oct. 3.“This event is unfortunately a ...