PRINCE GEORGE - The driver of a vehicle struck by a plane as it made an emergency landing on a British Columbia road says he knows he's lucky to be alive. Prince George, B.C., resident Jaime Pawliuk says he only suffered cuts and minor whiplash, but gi...

ANMORE - British Columbia's Conservation Officer Service says it responded to another bear attack in Metro Vancouver earlier this week that left a woman and her dog injured. It says in a social media post that the confrontation happened Monday on the ...

PRINCE GEORGE - Police say one person is dead after a twin-engine plane made an emergency landing on a road in Prince George, B.C., crashing into cars and scattering debris including a propeller. Social media photos show what appears to be wreckage spe...

PORT ALBERNI - Police on Vancouver Island say a man has been sentenced to 22 years behind bars after being convicted of multiple sex offences. Port Alberni RCMP say Shaun Pater was sentenced last week for sexual interference against a person under 14, ...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia and federal governments have announced a joint investment of $106.5 million over five years to help restore salmon habitat and to support the province's fish and seafood sectors. The governments say in a joint news relea...

Another mill is shuttering in British Columbia, affecting about 400 workers in the industry that has taken repeated beatings from tariffs, global competition and a lack of fibre. Domtar announced Thursday the "indefinite idling" of its Howe Sound pulp...

VANCOUVER - Three men facing extradition to the United States over their alleged involvement in transnational drug trafficking may seek to be tried in Canada, but the British Columbia Supreme Court says the prospect is "speculative at this point." Gur...

A veterinarian is warning of a surge in encounters with bats in British Columbia's Sea to Sky region after one of the mammals that had direct contact with a human tested positive for rabies. Experts have suggested the spike in bat encounters and sighti...

The day she returned to her home in Summerland, B.C., more than a week after escaping from an out-of-control wildfire, Erin Trainer was cleaning when her four-year old daughter asked for orange paint. Paint in hand, the next question from the girl was ...

An AirTag that stayed online as a wildfire roared into the outskirts of her neighbourhood in Summerland, B.C., gave Harpreet Sidhu some hope that the home she shares with her husband was still standing. Otherwise, Sidhu said she thought it was gone, ba...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Opposition Conservatives have replaced president Aisha Estey, continuing a transformation under new leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay that an analyst says has little precedent. Since narrowly winning the leadership in May, Findl...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver police say they are working with Dutch counterparts and Interpol to determine if an unidentified man who collapsed on the street in the Netherlands three years ago is a Canadian who went missing in B.C. in the 1990s. Amsterdam pol...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has issued a new temporary protection order for the Salmon River watershed, where chinook salmon have returned to spawn. The Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship says in a news release that the ord...

The BC Prosecution Service says appealing the acquittal of a man accused of killing 33-year-old Vanessa Terry isn't viable, after a judge tossed out incriminating statements made to police due to "degrading and humiliating" treatment by investigators a...

When Amanda Roberts and her 10-year-old son River fled the Bald Range fire before it wiped out the community of Faulder, B.C., they had to leave behind some of their beloved pets, including a tarantula named Velky Pavouk and Mongo the salamander. The c...

BURNABY - Police in the Metro Vancouver city of Burnaby have issued a warning to sex workers after one was forcibly confined and robbed at gunpoint. Mounties say the attack happened Saturday at a home in the city. They say the victim was restrained and...

More than 500 homes or other structures have been destroyed or damaged by wildfires in British Columbia this year, in a level of devastation comparable to some of the worst recent fire seasons. While the area of 4,300 square kilometres burned by the mo...

MAPLE RIDGE - A man has been critically injured in a shooting in the Metro Vancouver community of Maple Ridge. Police say in a statement that the shooting took place around 10 p.m. on Tuesday. Officers responding to reports of shots fired at a home in ...

The Sunflower Ukrainian Cafe in Summerland, B.C., is still restocking, but it's already serving limited quantities of borscht and cabbage rolls to residents returning home after the community's wildfire evacuation. Iuliia Borysenko owns the business wi...

The owners of the gold rush-era Alexandra Lodge in southwestern B.C., are celebrating news that the landmark is still standing after a wildfire came perilously close. The BC Wildfire Service said on Tuesday the "leading edge of the fire" has passed by...

RCMP have issued "duty to warn" letters to at least two Canadian Sikh activists, telling them their lives are under threat for their involvement in trying to create an independent Sikh state in India. Police have issued the notices to Inderjeet Singh G...

SURREY - British Columbia's police watchdog says it has cleared officers of wrongdoing after a confrontation in April where a man shot and wounded himself. The Independent Investigations Office says Mounties were called to a home on Nason Street in Qu...

LANGFORD - A man has died while swimming near a waterfall at Goldstream Provincial Park, about 19 kilometres west Victoria. RCMP say in a news release that the drowning happened Monday evening as the 27-year-old man was swimming near Goldstream Falls....

VANCOUVER - Job action by unionized Metro Vancouver outside workers could affect the dredging of Burrard Inlet to accommodate larger vessels. The Greater Vancouver Regional District Employees' Union says in a statement that its members are off the job ...

Most residents of Summerland, B.C., are now able to return home after being chased out by a fast-moving wildfire about 10 days ago, but Mayor Doug Holmes says his community faces a "long road to recovery." Holmes says he's confident residents will supp...

VANCOUVER - Fifty metres up a grand fir tree, and the rigidities of the world at ground level fall away. There are the branches, needles, the smell of freshness and a profound stillness. Look up, and tiny flakes of bark patter gently on your face, like...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia Supreme Court has awarded more than $1 million in damages in a shooting that left a man with lifelong injuries and his wife traumatized after witnessing the violent confrontation. Anthony and Wendy Nelson of Sooke, B.C....

SURREY - British Columbia's police watchdog says it won't be recommending charges against officers involved in two situations where people died. The first case involved a man who was arrested in an alleged home invasion who was taken to Smithers RCMP c...