VICTORIA - The British Columbia Green Party has named former chief coroner Lisa Lapointe as the party's candidate in the riding of Saanich South on Vancouver Island. Leader Emily Lowan announced Lapointe's candidacy as the party unveiled its toxic drug...

A top official at the Bank of Canada says monetary policymakers are struggling to find new tools and pathways to address persistent housing affordability challenges. Senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers gave a speech in Victoria, B.C., on Thursday tha...

SURREY - British Columbia's police watchdog agency is investigating the actions of officers after a man jumped from a Metro Vancouver bridge and disappeared over the weekend. The Independent Investigations Office says in a release that it happened Satu...

CALGARY - Prime Minister Mark Carney expressed confidence Thursday that oilsands producers will be keen to spend on expansion projects to fill the proposed Pacific Link pipeline, which has been deemed Canada's first project of national interest. "Thes...

FORT MCMURRAY - A pipeline to haul Alberta oil to tankers on the B.C. coast took a big step forward Thursday. Prime Minster Mark Carney, with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at his side, announced the line - to be known as Pacific Link - is the first pr...

CALGARY - A new million-barrel-per-day oilsands pipeline to the West Coast is the first to be deemed a project of national interest - a key step if the proposal is to advance. Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced the ...

SUMMERLAND - The Okanagan B.C. community of Summerland has rescinded all evacuation orders almost two months after a wildfire tore through the region. The District of Summerland says that all remaining properties previously on evacuation orders have be...

MAPLE RIDGE - A woman is dead and a man is in critical condition after a vehicle collided with a train in the Metro Vancouver community of Maple Ridge. Police say officers were called to the crash on Lougheed Highway at about 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Moun...

OTTAWA - Voters in a number of ridings across the country will choose new federal representatives in the coming weeks and months after members of Parliament from four major parties quit the House of Commons for diplomatic appointments, provincial polit...

DELTA - Delta police say the driver involved in a collision that killed two Tsawwassen First Nation elders and injured two others has been released from hospital, as investigators assess whether the driver's medical emergency played a role in the crash...

VICTORIA - Promises to lower the cost of gasoline from B.C. New Democrat Leader David Eby, and praise for a planned pipeline from Conservative interim leader Lorne Doerkson fuelled British Columbia's snap election campaign on Thursday. Eby's platform f...

Claims have spread online this week that a white nationalist group's demonstration at a First Nation in British Columbia, which has been denounced by authorities as "disgusting" and "cowardly," was in fact a false flag operation. The claims say the act...

Claims have spread online this week that a white nationalist group's demonstration at a First Nation in British Columbia, which has been denounced by authorities as "disgusting" and "cowardly," was in fact a false flag operation. The claims say the act...

DELTA - First Nations members sang and drummed near the bodies of two elders who were killed outside a shopping centre south of Vancouver on Wednesday. The lament was heard from behind large white sheets that officers held up to give them privacy. The ...

VANCOUVER - A frontal system that moved across the British Columbia coast this week dropped more than 100 millimetres of rain at one location, while other communities were also drenched. Environment Canada issued rainfall warnings for Monday and Tuesda...

KAMLOOPS - The deaths of two pedestrians and injuries of two others on a First Nation in Delta, B.C., has marred what was to be day of recognition for the harms caused at Canada's residential schools. The Tsawwassen First Nation cancelled further even...

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Mark Carney announced $1.2 billion in federal funding for ocean protections Tuesday as the country moves toward decisions on a new pipeline to the West Coast and the expansion of a major port in Metro Vancouver. The major pro...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Parliament will address AI safety this fall after media reports suggested OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot coached the Tumbler Ridge shooter. But it's not clear if Carney was referring to the Liberals' already-proposed ...

WHISTLER - Police in British Columbia say two men accused in a double homicide in Whistler, B.C., in 2022 have been convicted of first-degree murder. B.C.'s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says Tanvir Khakh and Gursimran Sahota have been convict...

HOPE, BRITISH COLUMBIA - Police are investigating after a man was hit by a train in Hope, B.C., and died. RCMP say the fatal collision occurred Saturday on the railway tracks beneath the Water Avenue overpass, where a pedestrian was struck by a train. ...

The partners behind Canada's first liquefied natural gas export terminal are proceeding with a project that would double its capacity as countries around the globe clamour for reliable sources of energy. LNG Canada announced Tuesday that it has made a...

Prime Minister Mark Carney stepped onto a chair Tuesday at a photo opportunity after a multibillion-dollar LNG announcement and came eye-to-eye with the six-foot-seven-inch David Eby, making both leaders laugh. But it's the British Columbia NDP leader'...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court has given the federal government six months to retool a federal drug law as it tossed criminal convictions against the founders of a Vancouver compassion club who "made it their mission to save lives by offering a non...

CALGARY - The Canada Energy Regulator has approved a settlement between Trans Mountain Corp. and companies that pay to ship their oil through the Alberta-to-British Columbia pipeline. A commission of the regulator found the agreed-to tolls were "just ...

OTTAWA - RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme says in a recent letter that information about firearms used in the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., will stay under wraps for now because it's still part of an active investigation. The Sept. 23 letter from ...

LOS ANGELES - A man charged in connection with the 2023 assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia has been added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's ten most-wanted list. Satinderjeet Singh, who is also known as Goldy Brar, was cha...

VANCOUVER - Heavy rainfall is in the forecast for parts of the British Columbia coast, including Metro Vancouver, with some areas expecting up to 100 millimetres of precipitation. Environment Canada issued the rainfall warning for Metro Vancouver nort...

PORT HARDY - A pair of earthquakes rumbled off British Columbia's coast, but emergency officials say there is no tsunami risk. Earthquakes Canada says the first at about 9:40 local time on Sunday night struck in the ocean 166 kilometres west of Port H...