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Filipino BC calls for more support responding to 'social disaster' of festival attack
VANCOUVER - The organizer of the Vancouver street festival where 11 people were killed in a vehicle-ramming attack last spring says the tragedy continues to reverberate through the community, and it n...
Sep 05, 2025
Vancouver Island police say man, 19, drowns in Upper Thetis Lake
VIEW ROYAL - An RCMP underwater recovery team has been sent to Upper Thetis Lake on southern Vancouver Island to help find the body of a 19-year-old man. Police say witnesses reported the man going un...
Sep 05, 2025
Judge blocks administration's ending of legal protections for 1.1 million Venezuelans and Haitians
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge on Friday ruled against the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the ...
Sep 05, 2025
Alcaraz plays Djokovic and Sinner plays Auger-Aliassime in the U.S. Open men's semifinals
NEW YORK (AP) - Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz have started their matchup in the U.S. Open men's semifinals Friday. Defending champion Jannik Sinner meets Felix Auger-Aliassime in the second semifi...
Sep 05, 2025
Police say shots fired in Surrey, B.C., neighbourhood linked to extortion case
SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., say they believe an early morning shooting in a residential neighbourhood is linked to "an ongoing extortion investigation." Police say the shooting happened around 3:...
Sep 05, 2025
Expert 'taken aback' by Eby foreign worker claims, says axing program won't fix woes
VICTORIA - An immigration expert says ending the temporary foreign worker program won't solve "deep structural problems" with housing and other issues in British Columbia, while having "problematic co...
Sep 05, 2025
Lawsuit alleges 2006 sexual assault by acclaimed Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau
VANCOUVER - The estate of acclaimed Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau is being sued in British Columbia by a fellow painter who says Morrisseau sexually assaulted him in 2006. A lawyer for the estat...
Sep 05, 2025
Search suspended for man believed missing in B.C. backcountry
NELSON - Police in British Columbia say they have suspended the search of a man missing since July in the province's backcountry. RCMP say search and rescue teams have been canvassing an area along a ...
Sep 05, 2025
Evacuation orders extended for areas near pair of wildfires in B.C. Interior
Wildfires burning in the B.C. Interior have prompted local officials to issue a new set of evacuation orders. The Ulkatcho First Nation and the Cariboo Regional District issued the orders for areas ar...
Sep 05, 2025
Spanish minister says Israeli cycling team should be expelled from Vuelta after protest
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Spain's foreign minister says that he would support the expulsion of Israel Premier Tech from the Spanish Vuelta cycling race after the team was targeted by a pro-Palestinian p...
Sep 05, 2025