SURREY, B.C. - Police in Surrey, B.C., say they arrested the driver of a vehicle with Washington state licence plates who failed to stop at the Pacific Highway border crossing Sunday. The Surrey Police Service says the Canada Border Services Agency flagged a white pickup truck that drove through the border around 8:45 ...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Police in Abbotsford are investigating after officers found what are believed to be human remains inside a vehicle that was set on fire in Sumas Mountain Regional Park. They say officers responded to a report of a vehicle fire on Friday around 2:45 p.m. along the Forest Service Road in the park and a...

PORT MOODY, B.C. - RCMP says the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is investigating the death of a woman whose body was found near a Port Moody, B.C., marina on New Year's Day. Police said they were called to the Reed Point Marina around 9:20 a.m. on Jan. 1 when a person was reported in the water. They said the bo...

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - WestJet has denied compensation to a devout Taylor Swift fan whose cancelled flight triggered a 10-hour drive through the night from Prince George to make the singer's shows in Vancouver last month. Carol Hansson says she and other Swifties on the flight incurred hundreds of dollars in costs after...

Khalil Dorival knows what it's like to feel lonely. The Toronto-based mental health advocate has struggled with social anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts. "I really suffered in silence, and I used many ways to cope in unhealthy and toxic ways," he says, adding he turned his life around and uses his sto...

CHILLIWACK, B.C. - Mounties in Chilliwack, B.C., say a person was struck and killed by a train near an overpass in the city early this morning. They say officers responded to a report of a pedestrian struck near the Yale Road Overpass and McIntosh Drive around 3:19 a.m. Police say first responders at the scene found th...

It takes years to rebuild a whale. Just ask Jim Borrowman, co-founder of the Whale Interpretive Centre museum that housed numerous whale skeletons on the boardwalk of Telegraph Cove on Vancouver Island. "When we find a dead whale somewhere, especially a larger one, it's a massive job to take that animal from a who...

VICTORIA - Cable ferries serving tiny communities in British Columbia's Kootenay region are providing regular scheduled service today despite the threat of an escalating strike that could cut sailings. The B.C. General Employees' Union, representing ferry workers who have been on strike since Nov. 3, and employer Weste...

VANCOUVER - Greater Vancouver home sales rose 31.2 per cent on a year-over-year basis in December, capping a "pivot year" for the market where the number of homes that changed hands in the region ticked higher. Greater Vancouver Realtors says the 1,765 home sales last month were still 14.9 per cent below the ...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver lived up to its soggy reputation last year, with Environment Canada data showing 2024 was the city's wettest year so far this century. Meteorologist Chris Doyle says more than 1,367 millimetres of precipitation was recorded at Vancouver International Airport last year. The drenching was boosted by...

Infectious disease experts say the avian flu case that infected a 13-year-old in British Columbia shows "worrisome" signs that the virus could be mutating to more easily infect humans, but that the treatment approach taken can help inform future cases. In a letter published in the The New England Journal of M...

Here's a look at how average residential property valuations changed in communities across B.C., in new data released by BC Assessment, based on the market situation on July 1, 2024. --- LOWER MAINLAND City of Vancouver -0.8 per cent City of Burnaby +1.3 per cent City of Coquitlam +0.9 per cent City of New Westminster ...

A new study suggests Canadian forests are increasingly primed for severe wildfires, underlining the pressing need to proactively mitigate the increased threat posed by climate change. The study by Canadian researchers, published in the journal Science, looked at fire severity from 1981 to 2020. Co-author Xianli Wang, a...

British Columbia's latest property assessments show values have been relatively flat in many parts of the province, especially major urban areas such as Vancouver, Victoria and Kelowna. BC Assessment says the newly updated property values, as of July 1, 2024, show almost all Lower Mainland communities within a three pe...

VANCOUVER - A letter sent to the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine signed by Canadian health officials says the British Columbia teenager who tested positive for avian flu has been taken off of supplemental oxygen and is no longer infectious. The letter, which was published Tuesday and provides a summary an...

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver say a man has been charged after an attempted armed robbery at a store in the city's downtown. They say officers responded to a call at Holt Renfrew just before noon on Monday. Police say the caller reported that someone had entered the store, threatened to shoot staff and attempted to s...

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. - Mounties in British Columbia are asking the public to be honest after a missing hiker's friends delayed reporting her disappearance to police. Port Alberni RCMP say they received a report for the missing hiker on Monday morning after she disappeared at around 2:30 p.m. the previous day. The woman w...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver Police are seeking witnesses to a collision involving an 85-year-old pedestrian who later died in hospital. Police say in a news release the collision happened on Dec. 15 when the man was struck by a 2001 Toyota Sienna as he was crossing Victoria Drive at the East Broadway intersection. They say h...

SOOKE, B.C. - A sea otter has been seen clambering onto a surfboard and following surfers off Vancouver Island, prompting reminders from Fisheries and Oceans Canada to avoid close interactions with the mammals. Photos and videos on social media show the otter following a group of three surfers off Whiffen Spit in Sooke...

VICTORIA - Oliver was the most popular name for babies in British Columbia in 2024, taking over from Noah, but both still have a long way to go to catch up with the most popular name of the past 100 years. B.C.'s Vital Statistics Agency says there were 216 Olivers born in the past year, topping the list for the first t...

VANCOUVER - A rare cougar sighting has been reported in Vancouver's urban Dunbar neighbourhood. The BC Conservation Officer Service says in a statement that the big cat was reported on Dec. 26 around Blenheim Street between 26th and 36th Avenues. It's far from wilderness areas but close to Pacific Spirit Regional Park,...

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. - Police say a woman in northeastern British Columbia who told an officer she couldn't remember her name during a traffic stop has been arrested after an untraceable "ghost gun" was found in her vehicle. The BC Highway Patrol says the incident happened in Fort St. John on Dec. 13, when an ...

VICTORIA - A maximum 20-per-cent home-flipping tax is among a number of new regulations coming into effect in British Columbia starting Jan. 1. The previously announced tax, to be levied against non-exempt people who sell homes within two years of purchase, is aimed at discouraging investors "from buying housing t...

HALIFAX - For more than 150 years, the stout and tidy Walton Harbour lighthouse in Nova Scotia has stood watch from a cliff overlooking the upper Bay of Fundy. But in recent years, coastal erosion left the historic wooden tower perilously close to the cliff's edge, raising concerns that the community could lose a touri...

VANCOUVER - A California-based HR tech company says it will acquire a Vancouver-based bookkeeping service that abruptly halted operations last week. Bench Accounting announced its sudden closure on Friday, putting hundreds of staff out of work and forcing clients to seek alternatives just days from the end of the year....

SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia's police watchdog is seeking witnesses after a man was arrested for urinating on an RCMP station then found to have sustained an injury. The Independent Investigations Office says police had been called to help discharge the man from Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver on Saturday nig...

VANCOUVER - Police on Vancouver Island say an early morning report of a car in a ditch took a turn when they discovered the driver had been shot multiple times. West Shore RCMP say officers were responding to a report of a single-vehicle incident just after 3 a.m. Monday in Metchosin, on the southern tip of the island,...

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - Telecom giant Rogers Communications says it has activated five new cellular towers along British Columbia's Highway of Tears, marking the "substantial completion" of efforts to improve access to 911 services on the route. Rogers says in a statement that the new cellular towers along High...