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VANCOUVER - Western Forest Products Inc. beat expectations as surging lumber prices strongly boosted its second-quarter results. The Vancouver-based company says its net income soared to $78.3 million...

TOKYO (AP) - Jessica Springsteen and the U.S. equestrian jumping team earned an encore performance in qualifying Friday night. Springsteen and gold medal-winning teammates Laura Kraut and McClain Ward...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ed Sheeran will perform in a concert to kickoff the NFL season opener in Florida next month. The NFL announced Friday that Sheeran will headline a pregame concert Sept. 9 at Julian ...

The union representing 9,000 Canada Border Services Agency workers says some job actions began Friday as bargaining with the government continued. "Our bargaining team representing CBSA employees has ...

NANAIMO - BC Hydro's wooden poles topped with inefficient orange-glowing street lights in Nanaimo are scheduled to be upgraded by the end of the year.The substantial project involves switching out Hyd...

TOKYO - Canada's Moh Ahmed has won a silver medal with a gutsy effort in the men's 5,000 metres at the Tokyo Olympics. Ahmed ran a fast final lap and challenged Joshua Cheptegei, the world record hold...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the economy added 94,000 jobs in July as restrictions meant to quell the COVID-19 pandemic were rolled back in many provinces. The unemployment rate was 7.5 per cent fo...

VERNON, B.C. -The smoky conditions from the wildfires burning throughout the province are having mixed impacts on tree fruit in the Okanagan.Glen Lucas, the general manager for Local 1 of the B.C. Fru...

TOKYO - American women had a good day at the beach and on the courts in Tokyo on Friday, with one Olympic gold medal won and a couple more set up for the taking. The United States beach volleyball tea...

BEIRUT (AP) - The militant Hezbollah group said it fired a barrage of rockets near Israeli positions close to the Lebanese border on Friday, calling it retaliation for Israeli airstrikes on southern L...