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NANAIMO - A pilot program designed to take a step towards normal for regional libraries has proven successful.Beginning in late July, the harbourfront branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library o...

OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency has resumed all online services after fraudsters used thousands of pilfered usernames and passwords to obtain government services. The agency disabled the servi...

TORONTO - Patrice Bergeron broke a tie with 3.5 seconds left in the second period, David Pastrnak returned with two assists and the Boston Bruins beat the Carolina Hurricanes 2-1 on Wednesday to win t...

NANAIMO - The number of active COVID-19 cases within the Island Health region increased steadily again.Two more new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Wednesday, Aug. 19, after two cases were confirm...

Mitch Berger can feel the Toronto Blue Jays' pain. The Blue Jays are playing most of their 30 home games this season in Buffalo, N.Y., after the Canadian government rejected their plan to us...

VACAVILLE, Calif. - Crews were battling wildfires in the San Francisco Bay Area and thousands of people were under orders to evacuate Wednesday as hundreds of wildfires blazed across the state amid a ...

LISBON, Portugal - Serge Gnabry led Bayern Munich into a first Champions League final in seven years, scoring twice in a 3-0 victory over Lyon on Wednesday. After losing four semifinals since lifting ...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Norman Powell scored 24 points, including the game-clinching dunk in the dying seconds, to lift the Toronto Raptors to a 104-99 victory over the Brook...

The time has come for Brooke Henderson to get back into competitive golf. Henderson tees off in the early afternoon on Thursday at the Women's British Open at storied Royal Troon Old Course in Troon, ...

OTTAWA - The federal government has announced it will join in an environmental assessment of a major expansion to a proposed southern British Columbia coal mine. A spokeswoman for Environment Min...