Politics

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — The British Columbia government is adding $17.25 million for ongoing efforts to save declining populations of wild Pacific salmon.

MONTREAL — Quebec's language law reform is continuing to draw criticism and legal challenges from the province's English community as more of its provisions come into effect Thursday, exactly a year after it received royal assent.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Legalized sports gambling starting next year in North Carolina now seems a better bet as the state House's top leader said Thursday he expected his chamber would accept alterations to its own proposal made by the Senate.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's police on Thursday arrested a top official in former premier Imran Khan's political party as authorities move to rein in the outspoken politician's supporters and allies.

OTTAWA — A senior government official says Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc is leading a process to determine Independent MP Han Dong's possible return to the Liberal caucus.

Ottawa's light rail transit service will be partially shut down for maintenance from June 5 to 19. OC Transpo says the closures will happen in the evenings to minimize the impact on commuters.

OTTAWA — Canada is sanctioning seven people with ties to Moldova whom Ottawa has deemed to be "Russian collaborators," along with a minor political party in the eastern European country.

OSLO, Norway (AP) — The United States will soon open a small diplomatic mission in Norway that will be its northernmost in the world and only such facility above the Arctic Circle, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Thursday.

ORLANDO, Fla.

Sympathizers of a young woman given a lengthy prison sentence for participating in attacks on neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists held protests and scuffled with police in some German cities after the verdict.