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VICTORIA - Iain Black, a former minister in the British Columbia government of Gordon Campbell, is joining the race to lead the provincial Conservatives. A campaign website says he will launch his bid...

British Columbia's three-year pilot project that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs for personal use is set to end on Jan. 31. Health Minister Josie Osbourne has announced...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Beijing this week for meetings with President Xi Jinping and other officials. Upon arriving in China Wednesday, Carney said he was "ready to build a new partn...

WINNIPEG - Health officials say most of the people taken to hospital after a school bus crash in western Manitoba are being released from hospital. One patient is expected to remain at Swan Valley Hea...

SASKATOON - A wildlife biologist says it's deeply concerning that two dead members of a critically endangered flock of birds that only breed in Canadian marshes have tested positive for the avian flu....

British Columbia won't be renewing its agreement with Health Canada that allowed for the decriminalization of small amounts of drugs for personal possession, officially ending a three-year program tha...

PIMICIKAMAK CREE NATION, MAN. - More members of the Canadian Armed Forces have landed in a First Nation in Manitoba that is in the throes of severe water issues, including frozen pipes, flooding and b...

Prime Minister Mark Carney's visit to China appears to have been greeted by Chinese media with less fanfare than Justin Trudeau received in 2016, but a researcher says that's more reflective of new ge...

CALGARY - The Alberta government has launched a review of Calgary's water main ruptures and is demanding the city turn over reams of documents dating back two decades within the next two weeks. Munici...

VANCOUVER - A new report by Statistics Canada says Indigenous adults were incarcerated at a rate 10 times higher than non-Indigenous adults in six provinces, a disparity that justice advocates called ...