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VICTORIA - COVID-19 has claimed five more lives in B.C., including four people from northern B.C.That brings the death toll in B.C. since the pandemic began to 2,186.A total of 406 cases of the virus ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Marshals Service said Tuesday that suspects being held in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection do not need to be removed from the District of Columbia jail comple...

MONTREAL - A coroner's inquest into deaths in Quebec long-term care homes during the first wave of COVID-19 was dominated Tuesday by debate over whether medicating certain residents to alleviate their...

SMITHERS - Skeena-Bulkley Valley NDP MP Taylor Bachrach has been appointed his party's Transport Critic.It's a posting he held prior to September's federal election. In the last parliament, Bachrach h...

IQALUIT - City officials say Iqaluit's drinking water meets national standards, but residents can't consume it until Nunavut's chief public health officer says it's OK. Chief administrative officer Am...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's auditor general is calling on public sector organizations to improve their fraud risk assessment measures. Michael Pickup says a survey of 140 public sector organizations...

VICTORIA - The ship that lost 109 containers overboard near Victoria is now stable and the company that manages the vessel says an initial transit plan is being reviewed by authorities. Danaos Shippin...

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver believe they have cracked a nearly 33-year-old case involving the sexual assault of a teenager. Const. Tania Visintin says the assault happened in February 1989, when t...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is confident a "solution" will be reached to allow Canada to honour its war dead on Remembrance Day by lowering the flag to half-mast. Trudeau gave his s...

HOUSTON (AP) - The World Series has its highest broadcast viewership since 2019 - with 13.9 million tuned in during Sunday's Game 5 alone across Fox platforms. Atlanta's 3-2 win over Houston on Saturd...