Politics

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan duo of U.S. senators is leading a growing push to open up the continent's "gold standard" trade agreement to include parts of Latin America in order to build a better bulwark against China's geopolitical might.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's state of emergency ended Thursday just under four weeks after ferocious wildfires ripped through several communities, burning homes and businesses and forcing thousands to escape. The B.C.

ATLANTA (AP) — A trial challenging voting district maps in Georgia concluded Thursday with the state arguing that court intervention on behalf of Black voters isn't needed, while the plaintiffs argued that Black voters are still fighting opposition f

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton moved closer to a verdict Thursday as closing arguments were set in the historic case that has put the embattled Republican's career in jeopardy over accusations of corru

NEW YORK (AP) — A last-minute legal challenge by Donald Trump ’s lawyers could disrupt a trial scheduled for next month in the New York attorney general's business fraud lawsuit against the former president and his company.

LANGLEY, B.C. — Premier David Eby said Thursday he had a question after reading a B.C. Review Board decision about the man accused of stabbing three people in Vancouver's Chinatown on the weekend, while on a day pass from psychiatric detention.

HAY RIVER, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, CANADA — Fire crews in the Northwest Territories say work continues fighting hot spots and flareups near evacuated communities while area residents wait to hear when they can return home.

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SURREY, B.C.

Vancouver-based Canfor has announced plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Houston, B.C., about eight months after the forestry firm shut down its sawmill in the same community of about 3,000 residents.