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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Police unions and other law enforcement organizations went into overdrive to thwart a measure that would have added California to the majority of states that can end the careers o...

VICTORIA - An outbreak of COVID-19 in British Columbia's Nass Valley has prompted an alert from the Northern and First Nations health authorities. The warning goes out to anyone who attended gath...

UPDATE - Police have arrested the man they believe to be responsible for the crash. More information is available here: https://nanaimonewsnow.com/2020/09/02/suspect-in-fatal-highway-crash-arrested-on...

WASHINGTON - Pressed by Democrats to quickly negotiate a new coronavirus relief package, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday the administration remains willing to work on a bipartisan agree...

BAMAKO, Mali - Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the Malian president ousted in a military coup last month, was hospitalized late Tuesday at a private clinic, intensifying fears about the 75-year-old's health a...

NANAIMO - The number of COVID-19 cases for the Island Health region has not increased. The province confirmed 58 new cases on Tuesday, Sept. 1, including one epi-linked case to increase the total numb...

Antibodies that people make to fight the new coronavirus last for at least four months after diagnosis and do not fade quickly, as some earlier reports suggested, scientists have found. Tuesday's repo...

VANCOUVER - Lance S.G. Finch, a former chief justice of British Columbia, has died at the age of 82. Chief Justice Robert J. Bauman says as a judicial leader, Finch was strong, steady a...

VANCOUVER - Lance S.G. Finch, a former chief justice of British Columbia, has died at the age of 82. Chief Justice Robert J. Bauman says as a judicial leader, Finch was strong, steady a...

NASHVILLE - Country star Miranda Lambert turns her "Wildcard" into an ace as she's the leading nominee at the 2020 Country Music Association Awards, including her first entertainer of the year nominat...