When Kieran Michael MacNeill started going door to door in Richmond, B.C., serenading householders in Mandarin, he was worried they might think he was a "weirdo." But instead, they embraced the efforts of the 22-year-old student, who spent summer singi...

SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., say a man is facing numerous charges after four shootings in the Metro Vancouver city, including three shots-fired incidents at the same home. The shootings at the home on 140A Street happened last December, with an ass...

VICTORIA - The newest member of a still-unnamed party acknowledged she and five other former provincial Conservative legislators are in for the "long-haul" if they want to throw out British Columbia's NDP government, while urging others to join them. T...

MONTREAL - Enforcement on cross-border cargo has ramped up enormously under the Trump administration, costing time and money and acting as a trade deterrent, shippers say. As a tariff wall rises along the 49th parallel, transport industry insiders say ...

SQUAMISH - Two drones played key roles in the nighttime rescue of a climber stranded 77 metres up a British Columbia cliff face this week, one helping deliver a rope and the other lighting the way. Squamish Search and Rescue says in a social media stat...

SURREY - New York first responders on Sept. 11, 2001, have spoken of the enduring bonds between Canada and the United States at a ceremony along the border between British Columbia and Washington state to mark the 25th anniversary of the attacks. They ...

VICTORIA - Politics in British Columbia could be getting more crowded as a group tries to take over and revive the moribund BC United party, to give voters what they call a "principled, mainstream centre-right alternative" in the province. The group ca...

A disturbing incident in which someone dressed in a Cat in the Hat costume chased a teenager in West Kelowna, B.C., occurred amid an online trend that twists the popular children's character into something sinister, leading police in some jurisdictions...

Robin Nuber was in Los Angeles on the weekend, but it was after he returned home to British Columbia that he found himself in a scene he likened to an "action movie," speeding in reverse to escape a man with a knife who was chasing a frightened victim ...

VICTORIA - A new report says building ferries in British Columbia would help the province weather the harsh economic trade winds coming from the United States. The report from the Centre of Future Work says building ferries in local shipyards rather th...

British Columbia's wildfire season appears to be winding down, with more than 50 fires declared out over the last week and no major fires of note remaining as the autumn equinox approaches. Just three of about 100 blazes across the province are burning...

OTTAWA - Canada's economic growth is expected to rebound later this year and into 2027 as hiring activity strengthens and business confidence recovers, Signal49 Research said Thursday. In its provincial five-year outlook, the Ottawa-based think tank fo...

ST. JOHN'S - As hijackers slammed two planes into the World Trade Center in New York City 25 years ago, there were hundreds of other aircraft in the sky. The usual round of early flights had taken off from Europe, carrying thousands of passengers over ...

OTTAWA - The Conservative party's big tent has been filled with infighting these past few months. It may not be obvious to anyone who spent the summer in an actual tent, rather than on social media, but fractures are forming within the coalition cultiv...

The two sons of Chang Yong Cho, who was killed in his Burnaby, B.C., home by a stray bullet, say they are "shattered" by the death of the 85-year-old. Justin and David Cho said in a statement on Wednesday that they are "struggling to understand how som...

EDMONTON - Health Canada says it has approved the use of a birth control vaccine to be tested on free-roaming horses in Alberta. The provincial government has said wild horse populations in parts of Alberta have reached levels not considered ecological...

TORONTO - An Oscar-nominated filmmaker and a past winner are among the finalists for Canada's largest literary non-fiction prize. Contenders for the Writers' Trust award include Toronto's Dan Werb, who won in 2022 for his look at the rise of coronaviru...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia forestry groups have written to Premier David Eby saying the industry is at a "breaking point" and calling for urgent action to address challenges ranging from slow-moving provincial processes to steep U.S. tariffs. The let...

VICTORIA - The Conservative Party of B.C. may have lost nine legislators since Kerry-Lynne Findlay became leader, but some of her supporters are applauding the defections they say will help discipline the party and sharpen differences with the governin...

It's shaping up to be a mild fall across much of Canada, The Weather Network's forecast suggests, with a potentially historic El Nino expected to prolong the season and delay winter's arrival. September and October will still bring the usual swings be...

WEST KELOWNA - Police in West Kelowna, B.C., say they're looking for someone who was wearing a Cat in the Hat costume when they allegedly chased a teenager walking in the Okanagan community. RCMP have not released additional details, other than saying ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby invoked the memory of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and Canadian efforts to help their "closest friend" as he voiced support for Ottawa's counter tariffs in the trade conflict with the United States on Tuesday...

BURNABY - Homicide investigators say an 85-year-old man was killed in his Burnaby, B.C., home by a stray bullet from a shooting a block away, and are appealing to a group of youth believed to be involved to "do the right thing" and come forward. Sgt. F...

VANCOUVER - A veteran Vancouver police officer accused of theft, fraud and breach of trust where millions of dollars were allegedly lost has denied wrongdoing. In a statement issued by his lawyer, Joven Narwal, Kal Dosanjh says he has spent 26 years se...

VANCOUVER - When Coast Salish artist Atheana Picha ran a gloved hand through the thick white pelt of an extinct woolly dog that has returned to British Columbia for the first time in more than 160 years, her thoughts turned to how her ancestors might h...

TORONTO - Last May, six-year-old Kofi Berkley started getting itchy and developing bumps on his skin while he was playing with his friends at recess. The recess supervisor brought the Grade 1 student, who didn't have any known allergies, to his Edmonto...

SURREY - British Columbia's police watchdog says it's looking for witnesses after a Surrey police vehicle was involved in a crash with a pickup truck that ran into a concrete SkyTrain barrier, injuring the driver and leaving a pedestrian with serious i...

WHISTLER - A woman was taken to hospital after a bear attack in the backcountry outside the mountain resort town of Whistler, B.C. B.C.'s Conservation Officer Service says in a social media post a trio of hikers came face to face with two bears near a ...