Politics

VICTORIA — British Columbia has lifted pandemic restrictions including mandatory mask-wearing in health-care settings, and proof of vaccination and COVID test results for visitors in care homes. Provincial health officer Dr.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's governor took a shot at the city of Houston following the NCAA Tournament's Final Four, which was held in that city last weekend. Gov.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Ahead of a highly anticipated presidential announcement, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visited Michigan for his first appearance this year in the battleground state transformed by Democratic majorities under high-profile Gov.

VANCOUVER — The doctor who led a legal challenge over a patient’s right to pay for private medical care says a decision by Canada's top court not to hear an appeal means long wait times have been "forcibly embedded" into the medicare system. Dr.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday laid the blame on his predecessor, President Donald Trump, for the deadly and chaotic 2021 withdrawal of U.S.

VANCOUVER — William James left his tent with his bedroll, his clothes, and his foam mattress on Hastings Street Wednesday morning to visit a friend in Surrey, but when he returned in the afternoon it was all gone.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Criminal charges against a Republican state lawmaker in Oklahoma that accused him of abusing his power by changing state law so his wife could become a tag agent are being dropped, Attorney General Gentner Drummond said on Thursd

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips nearly every year from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow without reporting them on financial disclosure forms, ProPublica reports.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations said the 3,330 Afghan men and women it employs stayed home for a second day Thursday to protest the Taliban's ban on U.N.

GAULTOIS, N.L. — Residents of a remote former fishing village along the south coast of Newfoundland had until Thursday to vote on whether to abandon their community. The provincial government will pay homeowners in Gaultois, N.L.