British Columbia

Residents of West Kelowna fire zone get brief home access but restrictions extended

WEST KELOWNA, B.C. - Residents of wildfire-ravaged Wilson's Landing in West Kelowna, B.C., were granted a four-hour window Friday to access their homes to retrieve important items as an area-wide rest...

Sep 08, 2023

UBC Okanagan ordered to pay $50,000 in sexual assault discrimination case

VANCOUVER - University of British Columbia Okanagan has been ordered to pay a former student $50,000 for discriminating against her based on her sex and disability in the way it handled her allegation...

Sep 08, 2023

'Marathon in a sauna': emergency projects aim to help B.C. salmon through drought

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's prolonged drought risks damaging the salmon population for generations and has led to a series of emergency, rapidly deployed projects in an effort to intervene. The Pac...

Sep 08, 2023

Vancouver cop charged after pedestrian struck in city's Downtown Eastside last year

VANCOUVER - Prosecutors in British Columbia have approved multiple charges against a Vancouver police officer a year after a pedestrian was hit by a police car in the city's Downtown Eastside. Const. ...

Sep 08, 2023

B.C.'s health minister warns high emergency medical care demand may be 'new normal'

SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix says the province is experiencing unusually high demand for emergency medical services - even before the cold-and-flu season begins - and the...

Sep 08, 2023

Correctional Service reports death of inmate at Victoria-area prison

VICTORIA - The Correctional Service of Canada says an inmate serving a sentence for second-degree murder has died at the Victoria-area William Head Institution. A statement Friday says inmate Richard ...

Sep 08, 2023

New outreach centre for youth aims to save lives in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

VANCOUVER - Youth struggling with mental health or addiction will have access to a new outreach centre in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, providing what the government says will be life-saving support....

Sep 08, 2023

COVID-19 numbers spike in B.C. but no more cases of new variant are detected

VANCOUVER - British Columbia is experiencing a spike in COVID-19 numbers, with cases, test positivity, hospitalizations and deaths all up in recent weeks. The BC Centre for Disease Control says in a m...

Sep 08, 2023

BoC likely done raising interest rates, despite job gains last month: economists

OTTAWA - The Canadian economy added more jobs than expected in August, but most forecasters still believe the Bank of Canada is done raising interest rates as overall trends in the economy point to a ...

Sep 08, 2023

Joffre Lakes Park in B.C. stays shut another week after First Nations closure

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's environment minister says Joffre Lakes Provincial Park will remain closed until next Friday, after public access was shut down by two First Nations more than two weeks a...

Sep 08, 2023