Vancouver

Residents in Vancouver, Canada, cheer for medical workers as they make their shift change.

An injured Colorado Springs police officer and his family received the surprise of their lives Friday morning when John Cena showed up at their home. Back in 2018, Cem Duzel was shot in the head and critically injured during an exchange of gunfire with an armed suspect. Since then, the Colorado Springs Police Department has been trying to get his...

The Class by Taryn Toomey is an exercise experience that combines meditative movement with cardio, encourages students to yell, and uses a carefully curated playlist to help foster a mind-body connection. “In The Class, we ‘work out’ mental and emotional behaviors to create new tools for experiencing life,” Toomey told NBC. “The vibe is very ethereal, contrasting our training in...

Nearly three dozen people aboard an Air Canada flight to Australia were injured by severe turbulence that forced pilots to land in Honolulu on Thursday, the airline said and NBC News reported. Flight 33, scheduled to go from Vancouver to Sydney touched down at Honolulu International Airport at 6:45 a.m. local time due to “un-forecasted and sudden turbulence approximately two...

Nearly three dozen people aboard an Air Canada flight to Australia were injured by severe turbulence that forced pilots to land in Honolulu on Thursday, the airline said and NBC News reported. Flight 33, scheduled to go from Vancouver to Sydney touched down at Honolulu International Airport at 6:45 a.m. local time due to “un-forecasted and sudden turbulence approximately two...

British actor Idris Elba has married model Sabrina Dhowre in Morocco. Images featured by British Vogue on Instagram showed the star of “Luther” sharing an embrace with Dhowre, a former Miss Vancouver. The magazine says the couple exchanged vows Friday at the Ksar Char Bagh hotel in Marrakesh. The bride wore custom gowns by Vera Wang. For the ceremony, she...

A woman who pleaded guilty to pushing her 16-year-old friend from a bridge at a popular swimming area near Vancouver has been sentenced to two days in jail and 38 days on a county work crew. Clark County District Court Judge Darvin Zimmerman sentenced 19-year-old Tay’lor Smith on Wednesday, saying she should do some jail time in light of Jordan...

A Canadian businessman has pleaded not guilty to paying $200,000 to have someone take a college entrance exam in place of his two sons. David Sidoo appeared in federal court in Boston on Friday and was released on $1.5 million secured bond. Sidoo is one of 50 people charged in a sweeping college admissions cheating scam announced by Boston authorities...

Court documents say a Portland, Oregon, man pleaded guilty to trying to bribe an immigration official to deport his wife and her child from a previous relationship, NBC News reported. Antonio Oswaldo Burgos, 48, agreed last month to plead guilty to one of three counts of bribery of a public official in exchange for a reduced sentence, according to federal...

Kiernan Shipka, best-known as Don and Betty Draper’s daughter, Sally, on “Mad Men,” is learning a lot as the star of the new Netflix series “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.” One of those lessons: She’s allergic to cats, which can be a challenge if you portray a teenage witch whose black cat, Salem, is essentially her sidekick.

Buble’s representative tells The Associated Press that Vida Amber Betty was born Wednesday in Vancouver. She is 6 pounds, 1 ounce.

Tracee Ellis Ross talks about giving her first TED talk in Vancouver and accidentally asking the director of “Black Panther” to give her the Wakanda salute when she walked on stage.

In a surprising finish that shocked even Ester Ledecka herself, the Czech snowboarder and Alpine skier claimed the top spot in the Pyeongchang Olympic super-G. Ledecka was the 26th racer down the hill and made a stunning run from back in the pack, blazing through the course in a time of 1 minute, 21.11 seconds. “How did that happen?” Ledecka...

Canada’s Kelsey Serwa has raced to victory in women’s skicross, giving her a gold medal to go with the silver she won in Sochi four years ago.

The Valentine’s Day celebrations have started a bit early for one Hollywood couple. Idris Elba is engaged to girlfriend Sabrina Dhowre after popping the big question at a movie theatre in London. “Another @riocinema first!” the venue shared on Twitter when confirming the news Saturday morning. “Still 5 days to Valentine’s Day but @idriselba went down on one knee and...

There’s been an ebb and flow to Swiss ski jumper Simon Ammann’s career over the past six Olympic Games. Like the sport of ski jumping itself: what goes up, must come down. He flops, and then sweeps gold on normal and large hills, and flops again. But he rebounds, and sweeps again, before the pendulum swings the other way. Ammann...

South Korean speedskater Cha Min-Kyu set an Olympic record in his men’s 500m race at the Olympic Oval in Gangneung Monday, but it was only good enough for silver — in the next race, Norway’s Havard Lorentzen managed to finish 0.01 seconds faster, and took gold.

Dutch speedskater Sven Kramer set three Olympic records as he took home a gold medal in the 5000m.

On Wednesday morning in PyeongChang (Tuesday night in the U.S.), Shaun White finally reclaimed his Olympic halfpipe title. And with the win, he made quite a bit of history. A few of the highlights: The journey started 12 years ago when White made his debut at the 2006 Torino Olympics as a 19-year-old with long, red hair. It continued four years...