VANDERHOOF - Mounties in Vanderhoof, B.C., say a man is facing a murder charge after a vehicle incident left another man dead. RCMP say they responded to the incident at around 1 p.m. Thursday in the 1500-block of Loop Road. Officers found one man de...

Two wildfires continue to threaten communities in British Columbia's Fraser Canyon, even though the winds have died down a bit. Officials with the BC Wildfire Service say the Brunswick Creek and Ainslie Creek wildfires remain classified as out of contr...

KELOWNA - Mounties say the body of a woman has been found in the back of a vehicle in Kelowna, B.C. RCMP say in a statement that they responded to a report on Tuesday of suspicious circumstances in the 800 block of Baillie Avenue. They say the discove...

VICTORIA - Special mediators have been appointed to help settle the British Columbia nurses' dispute but the union says its members are not backing off from their plans to expand job actions to Vancouver Island. B-C-N-U president Adriane Gear says she...

VANCOUVER - A West Vancouver man named in an American indictment as part of a multipronged investigation into international organized crime has been arrested in France. RCMP say Garinder Deo was picked up on July 7, a day after authorities in Los Ange...

GRANDE PRAIRIE - RCMP in Alberta and British Columbia have cancelled Amber Alerts in those provinces for a six-year-old boy, but the child remains missing. Alberta RCMP said late Friday afternoon that they were cancelling their alert but continuing to ...

PRINCE GEORGE - British Columbia government is adding 132 more involuntary care beds for those in the province with complex mental health needs, addictions and brain injuries. The government says a 72-bed treatment centre in Prince George will replace...

VANCOUVER - A consortium of media outlets has gone to court in British Columbia to obtain information about guns used in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting and the firearms seized from the home of the attacker. The consortium, which includes The Canadian ...

PRINCE GEORGE - Two mediators have been appointed to help settle the British Columbia nurses' dispute but that won't stop the nurses from escalating their job action. Adriane Gear, president of the BC Nurses' Union, said Friday that she welcomes the a...

BOSTON BAR - Fernando Balanta says he was on a trip to the landfill in Boston Bar, B.C., on July 2 when the journey took a surreal turn. He and others found themselves trying to extinguish a fire that had started on both sides of the road, stomping on ...

RICHMOND - Top Vancouver Fishing Charter company took to social media on June 28 to brag about how its two vessels had gone out together and would head back to port with a haul of fish. "This is what makes fishing in Vancouver so addictive - every trip...

GRANDE PRAIRIE - RCMP say the search for an Alberta boy has been expanded to all of B.C. and into much of the Northwest Territories or the Yukon. Mounties near the Alberta-B.C. boundary issued an Amber Alert late Wednesday for six-year-old Lanakai Morr...

RICHMOND - Transport Canada has ordered the detention of a boat operated by a British Columbia fishing charter operation whose other vessel sank last month, leaving one person dead and six others missing and presumed drowned. The order, dated Thursday,...

VICTORIA - Ministers in British Columbia have approved plans to increase the height of the tailings storage facility at the Mount Polley copper and gold mine, the site of a catastrophic dam collapse more than a decade ago. The government says the heigh...

NORTH VANCOUVER - A British Columbia First Nation says it has launched a legal challenge against a plan by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority to dredge Burrard Inlet to make room for oil tankers with larger loads to operate. In a release, the Tsleil-W...

OTTAWA - Former B.C. Conservative leadership candidate Caroline Elliott is pushing back at Pierre Poilievre's recent jab about her campaign team, calling on the federal Conservative leader to work to bring people together. Elliott posted a video on soc...

VANCOUVER - Conner Macdonald says he's watched for the last eight years as the price of beef climbed "astronomically," as customers at the butcher shop where he works turned to chicken or pork, even on special occasions. "Even with Christmas and Thanks...

VICTORIA - British Columbia has recorded its lowest monthly number of suspected toxic drug deaths since before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, falling by more than half since their peak. The Ministry of Public Safety's preliminary data s...

SURREY - The BC Nurses' Union said Thursday that negotiations with the employer have broken down, and the group is calling on the provincial government to step in to help end their dispute that triggered job action last week. The union said in a state...

BOSTON BAR - Shayne Findlay, the owner of Blue Lake Resort, near Boston Bar, B.C., says "the wind was in charge" as a wildfire roared through the property on Tuesday night, destroying several buildings, including the home of the resort manager. "This f...

VANCOUVER - Court and immigration board records show that a British Columbia suspect indicted by U.S. authorities over alleged international organized crime was previously convicted of cross-border drug smuggling in the United States but was allowed to...

OTTAWA - The 2026 wildfire season has been manageable so far, largely because of significant amounts of rain across Western Canada, but federal officials cautioned Thursday the summer forecast is hotter and drier than normal in much of the country. "Mu...

FORT ST. JAMES - Three people have been rescued after a boat capsized on a lake in British Columbia's northern Interior. Police in Fort St. James say the accident happened Tuesday when the small boat capsized and sank in Stuart Lake's Sowchea Bay, loca...

COQUITLAM - The risk posed by a man found not criminally responsible for killing his three children is now "manageable" in the community with oversight, supervision and multiple conditions, the British Columbia Review Board says. The board decided last...

LOS ANGELES - An indictment released by U.S. authorities on Tuesday includes fresh details about the alleged involvement of Indian gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and others in the murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Two other indictments meanwhile...

OTTAWA - A document prepared for the federal artificial intelligence minister to use when pitching international investors on Canada's AI ecosystem identifies a massive proposed increase in Canada's data centre capacity. But spokespeople for the govern...

WEST VANCOUVER - RCMP in British Columbia say officers deployed in Metro Vancouver waters in support of the FIFA World Cup were diverted to help rescue 11 people, including several youth, from an overturned canoe on the weekend. Police say in a release...

OTTAWA - Richard Martel and Nate Erskine-Smith resigned their seats in the House of Commons on Tuesday, setting a clock ticking ahead of a pair of byelections in Quebec and Ontario - and they are not the only ones. Voters in a number of ridings across...