Politics

Tumbler Ridge resident Joline Couture feared the worst last week when she prepared to pack up and leave under an evacuation order as wildfires loomed outside the small community in British Columbia's northeast.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's digital director Rob Flaherty is departing the White House and is expected to join the president's 2024 reelection campaign, which is ramping up its activities two months after launch.

OTTAWA — The Senate has passed a bill intended to unblock Canadian aid in Afghanistan without amendment.

OTTAWA — The fact Liberals are tabling new legislation to force the federal government to create and protect jobs is a recognition that the shift to a clean-energy economy is already happening, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Thurs

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Social Development Minister Dorothy Shephard, who was among several Progressive Conservative government members who disagreed with changes to the province's LGBTQ policy in schools, resigned Thursday from cabinet.

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. — A large police presence remains at a home in the northwest British Columbia city of Prince Rupert where four people were found dead.

VANCOUVER — The Crown utility in charge of generating and delivering electricity in British Columbia says the province is going to need enough new power to run 270,000 homes starting as early as 2028.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican governors are pushing back against a proposal by the Biden administration to put conservation on equal footing with industry on vast government-owned lands. On Thursday, South Dakota Gov.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Warren McGraw, a former West Virginia Supreme Court justice who spent five decades in public service, has died at age 84, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said Thursday. Court spokeswoman Jennifer Bundy said McGraw died Wednesday.

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