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Some evacuation orders, alerts linked to Vancouver Island wildfire lifted
PORT ALBERNI - Some of the evacuation orders and alerts linked to the Mount Underwood wildfire on Vancouver Island have been lifted or downgraded, as firefighters report "minimal" behaviour from the b...
Aug 20, 2025
Police watchdog investigates after Vancouver officer shoots man dead
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's police watchdog is investigating after a man was shot dead in an alleged confrontation with officers in Vancouver. The Independent Investigations Office says the shootin...
Aug 20, 2025
Israel approves settlement project that could divide West Bank
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Israel gave final approval for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the territory in two, and that Palestinians and rights gr...
Aug 20, 2025
Bus crash in Afghanistan kills more than 70 Afghans returning from Iran
A bus crash in northwestern Afghanistan killed at least 79 people returning from Iran, including 19 children, an official said. Two people were also injured in the crash, Ministry of Interior spokespe...
Aug 20, 2025
Israeli military will call up 50,000 reservists as it plans new phase of war in Gaza
JERUSALEM (AP) - An Israeli military official said on Wednesday that the country's top generals had approved plans to begin a new phase of operations in some of Gaza's most densely populated areas. Sp...
Aug 20, 2025
Media challenge publication ban on Lapu Lapu attack suspect's fitness hearing
VANCOUVER - A media consortium has challenged a publication ban on evidence at a hearing to determine if the man accused of killing 11 people at Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day festival is fit to stand tria...
Aug 19, 2025
Thieves tug at heartstrings in string of Canada-wide distraction thefts, police say
EDMONTON - Police in Alberta say the public should mind strangers asking for hugs or sharing sob stories after three people were arrested in a string of "distraction" thefts across Canada. Edmonton po...
Aug 19, 2025
Florida man executed for the 1982 killing of a woman abducted from an insurance office
STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A man convicted of abducting a woman from a Florida Panhandle insurance office and killing her was executed Tuesday evening. Kayle Bates, 67, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. follo...
Aug 19, 2025
B.C. resort destroyed by 2023 Okanagan wildfire sues over insurance 'gaps'
VANCOUVER - A lakeside British Columbia resort that was destroyed by a wildfire in 2023 says it can't rebuild due to "gaps" in its insurance coverage that it allegedly wasn't told about. Lake Okanagan...
Aug 19, 2025
National Guard troops from four states begin arriving in DC
WASHINGTON (AP) - National Guard members from West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana began arriving in Washington on Tuesday to assist in President Donald Trump's federal crackdown o...
Aug 19, 2025