British Columbia

Alberta adds $16M to fix up aging government-owned homes and put them back in use

CALGARY - Alberta is spending an extra $16 million to fix up aging government-owned affordable housing units to make them inhabitable once again. Social Services Minister Jason Nixon says the money is...

Sep 13, 2023

Man walked naked out of shower, found Mountie in his bedroom: lawsuit

COQUITLAM, B.C. - A British Columbia man who is suing the RCMP claims he walked naked out of his shower to find a female uniformed Mountie standing in his bedroom. Kirk Forbes says the encounter in hi...

Sep 13, 2023

CP NewsAlert: Ibrahim Ali's DNA matched sample from dead girl, court is told

VANCOUVER - An RCMP expert testifying at Ibrahim Ali's murder trial says his genetic profile matched DNA found on the body of a teenage girl he is accused of killing six years ago. Christine Crossman ...

Sep 13, 2023

CP NewsAlert: BC United MLA Bruce Banman defects to provincial Conservatives

VICTORIA - A member of the Opposition BC United caucus has crossed the floor to join British Columbia's Conservatives. Bruce Banman, the MLA for Abbotsford South, says he is proud to join his friend B...

Sep 13, 2023

Weeks of worry ease as alerts lift for two B.C. wildfires outside Kamloops, Lillooet

VANCOUVER - As British Columbia awaits an update due later today on fire, drought and flood conditions, residents in an area south of Kamloops can relax as all evacuation orders and alerts related to ...

Sep 13, 2023

Essential workers to come back as Hay River, N.W.T., eyes Sunday for public's return

HAY RIVER, N.W.T. - The 3,500 residents of Hay River, N.W.T., could be returning home on Sunday if all goes well. Essential workers are being allowed to return starting Wednesday at 9 a.m. The town sa...

Sep 12, 2023

A list of some of those found not criminally responsible by a court

VANCOUVER - Blair Donnelly, 64, faces three counts of aggravated assault over allegations he stabbed and injured three people at a Vancouver Chinatown festival on Sunday. Donnelly was free on day rele...

Sep 12, 2023

B.C. premier breaks ground on second hospital, cancer centre at cost of $2.88 billion

SURREY, B.C. - A long-awaited and often promised second hospital for the City of Surrey marked a milestone today with a groundbreaking ceremony promising the opening of the new facility by 2029. Premi...

Sep 12, 2023

Premier Eby 'white-hot' angry over Chinatown stabbing suspect's release from hospital

SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia Premier David Eby says he is "white-hot" angry over the day release of a man from a forensic psychiatric hospital before he was arrested for a triple stabbing in Vancou...

Sep 12, 2023

One evacuation imposed, another dropped, as B.C. wildfires burn through September

VANCOUVER - The latest evacuation order issued due to a wildfire in British Columbia covers a rural area north of Prince George in a region straddling the boundaries of two regional governments. The r...

Sep 12, 2023