ABBOTSFORD - A B.C. Supreme Court judge is expected to deliver her verdict today in the first-degree murder trial of three young men accused of killing an Abbotsford, B.C., couple during a home invasion in 2022. The court earlier heard that 77-year-ol...

TORONTO - A Canadian union is asking the federal government and competition watchdog to scrutinize a takeover of one of the world's biggest video game makers by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and a private equity firm owned by U.S. President Dona...

MAPLE RIDGE - Police in British Columbia have arrested 11 people in connection with an illegal gambling house in Metro Vancouver. Investigators say they began looking into the suspected gaming operation in Maple Ridge last November. The investigation r...

VICTORIA - British Columbia is giving midwives the ability to prescribe abortion pill Mifegymiso and other drugs, in an expansion of their scope of practice. The province says the changes will make it easier for people to access reproductive health ser...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government is investing up to $1 million on field-testing new technology from a Vancouver company that aims to both predict and prevent lightning that may trigger wildfires. Skyward Wildfire Technologies says it release...

VICTORIA - The school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., where students were killed in a mass shooting in February will be torn down and rebuilt on a new site. Premier David Eby said Thursday that the decision by the local school board came after it consulted sur...

VICTORIA - Two former B.C. Conservatives now sitting as Independents say they voted with their consciences when they helped the governing NDP shut down debate on changes to freedom of information rules in a 3 a.m. vote. Ex-colleagues of Amelia Boultbee...

SURREY - A foreign national with no status in Canada has been arrested in Surrey, B.C., over a shooting last month that's believed to be linked to extortion. Surrey police say the Canada Border Services Agency has been told about the arrest of 27-year-...

Bell Canada's parent company has upped its revenue target for its growing AI business by a third as it moves forward with plans to build a cluster of data centres, while assuring it will maintain "responsible usage" of the technology. BCE Inc. chief ex...

NEW WESTMINSTER - Metro Vancouver has been fined about $170,000 after a worker was seriously injured during "high-risk violations" while working on a water main in New Westminster two years ago. WorkSafeBC says in a news release that it issued the pena...

LIONS BAY - Two hikers have been rescued after a night in the mountains north of Metro Vancouver, with weather hampering operations to save them. Lions Bay Search and Rescue says the two young men were trying to complete the Howe Sound Crest Trail be...

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver say a man has been killed in a stabbing that's being classified as the city's fourth homicide this year. Vancouver police say the attack happened at around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday in an area near East Hastings and Columbia s...

VANCOUVER - A prosecutor in the murder trial of a man who stabbed a Vancouver Starbucks patron to death says the evidence doesn't establish that the suspect had stopped taking his schizophrenia medication months earlier, as he had testified. Daniel Pru...

VANCOUVER - Canada's Fisheries Department says a grey whale that was hit at high speed by a Sea-Doo in front of a horrified Vancouver crowd on Monday appeared in "good condition" the next day. The Fisheries Department says in an update that while asse...

OTTAWA - OpenAI failed to respect Canadian privacy laws when training its artificial intelligence-powered ChatGPT chatbot, federal and provincial watchdogs have found. The conclusion came Wednesday in a report on a joint investigation by federal privac...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's River Forecast Centre has upgraded a high streamflow advisory to a flood watch in the northwest of the province due to recent heat accelerating snowmelt. The centre says in a notice that the flood watch is active for the B...

Two years ago, Guy Felicella received a proclamation from Mayor Ken Sim, naming a day in his honour for his work on harm reduction and recovery. Now the harm reduction advocate wants to return the proclamation of May 29, 2024 as "Guy Felicella Day," af...

VANCOUVER - The father of 12-year-old Maya Gebala, who was gravely injured in the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., mass shootings, says surgery to repair her damaged skull has been a success. David Gebala says in a Facebook post that Maya underwent a cranioplasty ...

When millions of tonnes of rock fell one kilometre into an Alaskan fiord last year, it set off one of the largest tsunamis ever recorded, a monstrous 481-metre wave higher than the tallest viewing platform of the CN Tower, a new study shows. Dan Shugar...

It's been just over a year since Keith Scott was found dead in a Victoria supportive housing building, and his ex-wife says their daughter still asks every day why the killer hasn't been brought to justice. "I don't have an answer for her," said Cassi...

KAMLOOPS - Police say one person has been killed in a shooting in the British Columbia Interior city of Kamloops. Mounties have not released any information on the circumstances surrounding the shooting, only noting that the case is being investigated ...

VANCOUVER - The judge in the murder trial of a man who stabbed a Vancouver café patron to death has been presented with two views of the suspect - as someone unable to understand the consequences of his actions due to an "unmedicated psychotic state," ...

VICTORIA - Premier David Eby says neither the RCMP nor Canada's spy agency have ever raised concerns about his cabinet or caucus, after Vancouver's ex-mayor said a minister was being investigated for collaborating with China's government. Eby said Tues...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has vowed to block the opening of a planned overdose prevention site in the city's downtown, promising to "use all tools available" in trying to do so. Sim, whose ABC party holds seven of the 11 seats in Vancouver's ...

SURREY - Homicide investigators say a deadly daylight shooting at a business in Surrey, B.C., on Monday afternoon is believed to have been a "targeted incident." The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says a man in his 30s is dead after being shot ...

VANCOUVER - Warm weather across British Columbia has driven electricity demand to the highest level ever seen in May. BC Hydro says residents using fans and air conditioners pushed demand to about 7,600 megawatts. The record demand comes as temperature...

SURREY - An Alberta man has been charged with second-degree murder after an 18-year-old woman and a 33-year-old man were found dead inside a Langley, B.C., home last week. Homicide investigators say Cregg Lafferty-Tuccaro, also 33, has been arrested an...

QUESNEL - The B.C. Supreme Court has dismissed a defamation lawsuit launched by the wife of the mayor of Quesnel, B.C., against the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, after it denounced her for distributing a book questioning "atrocities" in residential scho...