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BC Greens leadership to take youthful turn, with contenders' average age of 30
VICTORIA - Stuart Parker was 21 when he became the leader of the B.C. Greens in 1993 after campaigning against McDonald's use of ozone-damaging foam packaging. He said youth alone won't be enough to s...
Aug 16, 2025
New plaque unveiled to honour Mt. Benson plane crash victims
NANAIMO - In place at the Bowen Rd. cemetery for several months, a new memorial dedicated to one of the country's worst air disasters is being officially unveiled on Saturday.The new plaque, in the no...
Aug 16, 2025
Erin becomes a Category 3 hurricane in the Caribbean and is expected to strengthen further
MIAMI (AP) - Erin became a Category 3 hurricane in the Caribbean early Saturday and is expected to strengthen further during the day, the National Hurricane Center reported. The storm is currently 170...
Aug 16, 2025
Ukraine's Zelenskyy to meet Trump on Monday after US-Russia summit secured no peace agreement
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he plans to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday after Trump's summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin. Zelenskyy said...
Aug 16, 2025
Floods in Pakistan wash away homes and leave at least 220 dead
BUNER, Pakistan (AP) - Rescuers in northwest Pakistan pulled 63 more bodies overnight from homes flattened by landslides and flash floods, raising the death toll from rain-related incidents to at leas...
Aug 15, 2025
Judge denies Trump administration request to end a policy protecting immigrant children in custody
McALLEN, Texas (AP) - A federal judge ruled Friday to deny the Trump administration's request to end a policy in place for nearly three decades that is meant to protect immigrant children in federal c...
Aug 15, 2025
Bulls, Broncs & Barrels: Coombs Rodeo ready to roll
COOMBS - A popular annual event with a distinct western flare, returns to the mid-Island for their ninth annual offering. Bulls, Broncs & Barrels, commonly referred to as the Coombs Rodeo, feature...
Aug 15, 2025
New Air Force policy denies transgender troops hearings before they're discharged
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Air Force says in a new memo that transgender airmen ousted under a recent Trump administration directive will no longer have the chance to argue before a board of their peers fo...
Aug 15, 2025
First in Canada unexplained wealth order issued in B.C. against alleged pot growers
VICTORIA - British Columbia's Public Safety Minister Nina Krieger says she's "pleased" that the B.C. Supreme Court has issued Canada's first unexplained wealth order against two accused illicit pot gr...
Aug 15, 2025
Trump and Putin end their meeting that started with a warm handshake belying bloodshed in Ukraine
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) - President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin met for about 2 1/2 half hours on Friday, a summit in Alaska that started with a handshake, a smile an...
Aug 15, 2025