TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $7.4 million jackpot in Saturday's Lotto 649 draw.However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was won by a ticket holder in Ontario.The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Oct. 20 will be an estimated $1...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A group of 17 U.S. missionaries including children were kidnapped in Haiti on Saturday, according to a voice message sent to various religious missions by an organization with direct knowledge of the incident.The missio...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers has landed after a 3 1/2-hour trip from the International Space Station. The capsule, descending under a red-and-white striped parachute after entering Earth’s at...

MIAMI (AP) — Venezuela’s government said it would halt negotiations with opponents in retaliation for the extradition the U.S. of a close ally of President Nicolas Maduro wanted on criminal charges.Jorge Rodríguez, who has been heading the gover...

Travel advisories are in effect for pooling water on several Vancouver Island Highways. Drive B.C. issued warnings Saturday morning that heavy rainfall had caused water buildup in several locations: • Trans-Canada Highway north of Duncan, bet...

MONCTON, N.B. — Faced with long lineups and heavy demand, health officials in New Brunswick were forced to cut short the distribution of free COVID-19 rapid-test kits at three locations on Saturday.The province announced Thursday that the kits woul...

EDMONTON — Ditching the practice of switching the time twice a year may seem like a no-brainer to some, but Alberta psychologists warn that the result of a provincial referendum could have unexpected consequences.The referendum on daylight time is ...

A Campbell River man’s blood alcohol level was almost twice the legal limit when he crashed his car, killing his friend in March 2020. That information was revealed Thursday in provincial court after Griffin Lee Grant, 23, pleaded guilty to dri...

About a dozen houses along ­Gonzales Avenue in Fairfield have been cut off from mail deliveries for the past six weeks after Canada Post cited concerns about loose dogs straying from nearby Pemberton Park. Residents of Gonzales have had to pick ...

The Fairfield ­neighbourhood will get 42 new units of rental ­housing after the City of ­Victoria Thursday night approved Empresa Properties’ second effort at a market rental project in the 1100-block of ­Burdett Avenue. Council voted 6-2 t...

With the U.S. revealing when it will open its borders to Canadians, the MV Coho has inched closer to returning to service. The decision won’t likely come until Monday, but the operator of the Port Angeles-Victoria ferry is leaning toward resumi...

Citing provincial legislation that covers much of the same ground, Victoria city councillors have voted to temporarily shelve plans for a renter-protection bylaw.Instead, they opted to see where gaps develop after the province’s Residential Tenancy...

Removing the flipping obscenities from license plates on Maine's roads and highways isn't going to happen overnight, even though a law banning such profanities in a state where such regulation has been unusually lax goes into effect Monday.Currently,...

MONTREAL — Two environmental groups say they're ready to take the federal government to court if it fails to protect a population of tiny brown frogs they say are threatened by a road expansion project south of Montreal.The two Quebec-based groups ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft named Lucy rocketed into the sky with diamonds Saturday morning on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids.Seven of the mysterious space rocks are among swarms of asteroids sharing Jupiter's orbit, t...

OTTAWA — Pierce Schoel thought he might be able to avoid a long wait at the passport office in Kitchener, Ont. by going in the middle of the day. He was surprised to discover lineups out the door. The security guard told people they'd likely be...

LEIGH-ON-SEA, England (AP) — David Amess was a man of the people, a hard-working British lawmaker who had no grand political ambitions beyond serving those who had elected him for nigh-on 40 years. His shocking death at the hands of a knife-wieldin...

OTTAWA — Environment groups in Canada say governments and the oil and gas industry can no longer pretend there is an economic case for expanding oil production after the latest international energy forecast suggests demand for Canada’s oil will f...

VERNON, B.C. — The legal rights to the legendary creature in a British Columbia lake have been transferred to an alliance of Indigenous nations who say the Ogopogo has always been part of their spiritual teachings. Council members in the Okanagan ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing on a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan that killed 47 people and wounded scores more. In a statement posted late Friday on social media, IS sa...