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NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Final arguments are scheduled to begin today over the criminal responsibility of a man who fatally stabbed a student and wounded another at a high school in Abbotsford, B.C. Ga...

VANCOUVER - Parbs Bains had a "sinking feeling" when she heard a single staff member tested positive for COVID-19 at her grandmother's care home. On Nov. 20, Little Mountain Place sent an email to fam...

VANCOUVER - Testing patients for COVID-19 before their scheduled surgery and transfer to wards from emergency departments could reduce hospital outbreaks in British Columbia as cases rise, the results...

NAIROBI, Kenya - The African Union has secured close to 300 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in the largest such agreement yet for Africa, a continental official said Tuesday. Nicaise Ndembi, senior sci...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The U.S. State Department cancelled the planned Taiwan visit by its U.N. ambassador that has drawn strong opposition and a warning from China. The department announced it was cancelli...

WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that a coronavirus relief bill will be the top priority for his caucus but added that the recent violence at the Capitol shows the need...

WASHINGTON - Republican opposition to impeaching President Donald Trump began crumbling at the party's upper echelons on Tuesday as the No. 3 House GOP leader said she would vote to impeach Trump. "Th...

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Florida attorney Fred Levin, who won a major legal battle against the tobacco industry in the 1990s, died Tuesday, several days after contracting the coronavirus. He was 83. Levin Pa...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday received the first shot of a Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine after Indonesia approved it for emergency use and began efforts to vaccine...

PRINCE GEORGE - It may seem like ages ago, but many residents of the city fought tooth and nail to have the arenas re-opened in time for the hockey season with high hopes.Now at the mid-way point of t...