British Columbia

B.C. Court of Appeal rejects private health care, says Charter breach OK

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Court of Appeal has unanimously upheld a lower court's dismissal of a Vancouver surgeon's challenge of the Medicare Protection Act, saying bans on extra billing and pr...

Jul 15, 2022

Crews still checking Vancouver building for possible victims after roof collapse

VANCOUVER - Eight people have been rescued from office space located below a collapsed rooftop parking lot in east Vancouver, but fire officials say it's still too early to tell if everyone is account...

Jul 15, 2022

BC Wildfire Service responds to blaze near fire-ravaged Lytton

LYTTON, B.C. - An aggressive fire was spreading Thursday just west of Lytton, B.C., the same community all but wiped out by a blaze last year. BC Wildfire Service reported the fire was about 1.7 kilom...

Jul 15, 2022

CP NewsAlert: Man acquitted in Air India bombing, shot dead: media reports say

SURREY, B.C. - Ripudaman Singh Malik, the man acquitted in the 1985 Air India terrorist bombing, appears to have been killed in a shooting in Surrey, B.C., according to several media outlets. Vancouve...

Jul 14, 2022

Surrey-Langley SkyTrain project approved, expected to be completed by 2028

SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia's transportation minister says the business plan and funding for the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain project has been officially approved. Rob Fleming says the project is expec...

Jul 14, 2022

Overdose deaths for May reach new heights in B.C., says chief coroner

VICTORIA - The British Columbia chief coroner says the province is on pace to lose another record number of people to toxic drugs this year. There were at least 195 deaths from overdoses in May, the h...

Jul 14, 2022

Old computer technology points the way to future of quantum computing

VANCOUVER - Researchers have made a breakthrough in quantum technology development that has the potential to leave today's supercomputers in the dust, opening the door to advances in fields including ...

Jul 14, 2022

City of Kamloops, B.C., says crews responding to CP Rail train derailment

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The City of Kamloops says crews are investigating a train derailment in the B.C. Interior community. The city says in a tweet that CP Rail has confirmed there were no hazardous goods ...

Jul 13, 2022

Haida village of Queen Charlotte, B.C., gets its ancestral name back

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has confirmed that the village of Queen Charlotte on Haida Gwaii will be renamed back to its former ancestral name. The village council submitted a proposal ...

Jul 13, 2022

University of B.C. president Santa Ono named as president at U. of Michigan

VANCOUVER - University of British Columbia president and vice-chancellor Santa Ono is leaving his post, and Canada, to become president of the University of Michigan. A board at that university voted ...

Jul 13, 2022