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Victoria's new police chief says she will apply lessons from Vancouver
VICTORIA - Victoria's new police chief, Fiona Wilson, says she will apply lessons from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to the most downtrodden community in the provincial capital, but acknowledges she s...
Aug 28, 2025
Police searching for B.C. woman Jessica Cunningham find body, man charged
MAPLE RIDGE - Police investigating the disappearance of British Columbia woman Jessica Cunningham have found human remains in a neighbourhood of Maple Ridge, B.C. They say Mylie Barron has been charge...
Aug 28, 2025
Brandon Teixeira convicted of first-degree murder in B.C. organized crime killing
SURREY - British Columbia homicide investigators say a man has been found guilty of first-degree murder over a 2017 organized-crime killing in Surrey, B.C. The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit...
Aug 28, 2025
Shooter fired 116 rounds from a rifle into a Minneapolis church, police chief says
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded more than a dozen children 116 fired rifle rounds into the Minneapolis church, the city's police chief said Thursday....
Aug 28, 2025
Israeli airstrikes hit Yemeni capital, Houthis say
CAIRO (AP) - Israeli airstrikes rocked the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, on Thursday, hitting the seat of the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels' rule in Yemen, the Houthis and the Israeli military said. The strik...
Aug 28, 2025
Several people injured when boat lands on another on B.C.'s Okanagan Lake: police
KELOWNA - Mounties in British Columbia say several people were injured after a boat crash that resulted in a powerboat being lodged on top of another on Okanagan Lake near Kelowna. A statement from We...
Aug 28, 2025
UN votes to end its peacekeeping force in Lebanon next year after nearly 5 decades
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to terminate the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon at the end of 2026 after nearly five decades, bowing to demands ...
Aug 28, 2025
Trump administration asks military base outside Chicago for support on immigration operations
CHICAGO (AP) - The Trump administration has asked a military base outside Chicago for support on immigration operations, the base said Thursday, signaling a push to expand its law enforcement crackdow...
Aug 28, 2025
Closure of Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center can proceed, judge says
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A federal judge in Miami has refused to pause her order requiring the winding down of the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz" whil...
Aug 28, 2025
Two bodies were missed at B.C. death scene. Was treatment of coroners to blame?
VANCOUVER - When police attended a single-room occupancy building in East Vancouver three years ago, they found the body of "Jimmy" Van Chung Pham, a man with a criminal history who would later be des...
Aug 28, 2025