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Donate to the 2024 Times Colonist Christmas Fund

Donate to the 2024 Times Colonist Christmas Fund

We have raised and distributed millions of dollars through our Christmas Fund over the years — including $1.12 million last year alone — and the success is a direct result of your generosity.
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Uncertainty hangs over COP29 as tense climate finance negotiations down to the wire

Uncertainty hangs over COP29 as tense climate finance negotiations down to the wire

Tense negotiations over how much wealthy countries will pledge to their counterparts in the fight to limit global warming have overrun their Friday deadline, a holdup Canada's environment minister attributed in part to questionable leadership at the
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Kendrick Lamar surprises with new album 'GNX'

Kendrick Lamar surprises with new album 'GNX'

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kendrick Lamar gave music listeners an early holiday present Friday with the surprise drop of a new album. The Grammy winner's 12-track “GNX” is the rapper's first release since 2022's “Mr.
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Dustin May and Dodgers agree to 1-year contract worth $2,135,000

Dustin May and Dodgers agree to 1-year contract worth $2,135,000

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Right-hander Dustin May, sidelined by injuries since May 2023, agreed to a one-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers worth $2,135,000 ahead of Friday's tender deadline.
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Alyssa Nakken, first full-time female coach in MLB history, leaving Giants to join Guardians

Alyssa Nakken, first full-time female coach in MLB history, leaving Giants to join Guardians

CLEVELAND (AP) — Alyssa Nakken, the first woman to coach in a Major League Baseball game, is leaving the San Francisco Giants to join the Cleveland Guardians. Nakken made history in 2022 when she took over as first-base coach following an ejection.
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Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old canals used to fish by predecessors of ancient Maya

Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old canals used to fish by predecessors of ancient Maya

WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula.
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Conor McGregor must pay woman $250K in sexual assault case, civil jury rules

Conor McGregor must pay woman $250K in sexual assault case, civil jury rules

LONDON (AP) — A woman who claimed mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor “brutally raped and battered” her in a Dublin hotel penthouse was awarded nearly 250,000 Euros ($257,000) on Friday by a civil court jury in Ireland. The woman said the Dec.
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Jury convicts men of human smuggling in case of frozen migrant family in Manitoba

Jury convicts men of human smuggling in case of frozen migrant family in Manitoba

FERGUS FALLS — A jury has found two men guilty on human smuggling charges in a case where a family from India froze to death in Manitoba while trying to walk across the Canada-U. S. border.
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2 men convicted of charges related to human smuggling after scheme led to an Indian family’s death

2 men convicted of charges related to human smuggling after scheme led to an Indian family’s death

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A jury convicted two men of charges related to human smuggling for their roles in an international operation that led to the deaths of a family of Indian migrants who froze while trying to cross the Canada-U.S.
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Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta

Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta , stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.
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