Voting at a polling station in Prince Edward Island province of Canada was suspended Tuesday afternoon due to a bomb threat, according to CTV.
Police confirmed there was a bomb threat. The polling building was evacuated around 1 p.m. Tuesday (local time), reports Xinhua news agency.
Around 3:30 p.m., the provincial election authority issued a statement saying voting would resume at the center. It also confirmed the polling would remain open 7:30 p.m. local time -- 30 minutes later than usual.
A judge has denied former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr's request for relaxed bail conditions and a Canadian passport.
The B.C. Oil and Gas Commission has blamed fracking for three earthquakes in northeastern B.C. last month.
Const. Gary O'Brien says the local detachment was swamped with offers to help Anne Marie Behan after police issued a news release on her predicament.
BC Conservative party says it will participate in the upcoming provincial byelection in Nanaimo and expects to name its candidate in the coming weeks.
It's one of several communities dealing with the aftermath of Thursday's storm, which BC Hydro is describing as among the most severe in many years.
One person was killed by a falling tree Thursday during a powerful windstorm that battered parts of British Columbia, causing more than 265,000 power outages and forcing dozens of ferry cancellations. 9