British Columbia

Teacher in Creston, B.C., charged with multiple sex offences against two students.

CRESTON, B.C. - A British Columbia high school teacher has been charged with multiple sexual offences against two students, as well as harassment and extortion. Mounties say a teacher from Kootenay Ri...

Sep 11, 2023

Chinatown stabbing suspect was on day release from psychiatric facility: VPD chief

Vancouver's police chief says the suspect in a triple stabbing at a Chinatown festival over the weekend was on day release from a forensic psychiatric hospital. Chief Adam Palmer told a news conferenc...

Sep 11, 2023

B.C. caps allowable rent increases at 3.5 per cent, 2 points lower than inflation

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has set the allowable rent increase for next year at 3.5 per cent. The rate is more than two percentage points below the 12-month average inflation rate of 5...

Sep 11, 2023

B.C. Premier David Eby set to visit Kamloops, Salmon Arm amid devastating wildfires

B.C. Premier David Eby and Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma are set to visit the province's southern Interior today to meet with those affected by this season's devastating wildfires. The provi...

Sep 11, 2023

Three people injured, suspect in custody following stabbings in Vancouver's Chinatown

VANCOUVER - One man is in police custody after three people were stabbed at Vancouver's Light Up Chinatown! festival. Vancouver police say the attack took place just before 6 p.m. Sunday, near the fes...

Sep 10, 2023

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