VANCOUVER - An American man recently found guilty of rioting at the U.S. Capitol four years ago remains in immigration custody in British Columbia, even after being given a presidential pardon for his actions. But the lawyer for 32-year-old Anthony Vo says his client plans to drop his asylum claim in Canada and he expe...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Police in Kamloops, B.C., say they seized guns and a "significant" amounts of drugs after finding a man sleeping inside a running vehicle at a restaurant parking lot. A statement from the RCMP says officers saw "numerous weapons" in plain view as they approached the truck Monday to ...

DELTA, B.C. - A man has died after being shot in what Delta, B.C., police call a targeted attack. A statement from the Delta Police Department says officers are now treating the shooting of 29-year-old Delta resident Gurvinder Uppal as a homicide. Officers say they were called Monday to a shooting at a home in Delta wh...

Premier David Eby says British Columbians should rethink trips to the United States and purchases of American products, as the province establishes a task force to respond to U.S. President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs. He says the proposed 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports would be a "deliberate econom...

VANCOUVER - A suspect has been charged with second-degree murder more than two years after a man was killed in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. A statement from Vancouver police says they were called on Jan. 17, 2023, to reports of a shooting inside the West Hotel rooming house. Officers found the body of 20-year-old Thu...

Colorado wildlife officials say the capture of 15 grey wolves in British Columbia and their release in the U.S. state is complete, an operation they say led to unspecified threats against staff. The operation that began in B.C. on Jan. 10 and wrapped up on Saturday follows Colorado voters' approval of a 2020 ballot ini...

VANCOUVER - The president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs is reversing his previous opposition to the scrapped Northern Gateway pipeline project linking Alberta to the Pacific Ocean. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip says while he "really fought against" Northern Gateway's construction before it was scuttled in 20...

VANCOUVER - Teck Resources Ltd. says it expects its copper production to total between 490,000 and 565,000 tonnes this year, helped by higher production at its Quebrada Blanca and Highland Valley Copper operations. The miner says the forecast is up from the 446,000 tonnes of copper it produced in 2024. In its outlook, ...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's finance minister says the province could focus on Republican-held states as it responds to the threat of U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods that President Donald Trump suggests could start on Feb. 1. Minister Brenda Bailey says targeting "red states" for possible retaliatory tariffs...

VANCOUVER - A newly listed house for sale in East Vancouver is being marketed as a "rare find" that offers easy access to shops and schools - but the previous owners weren't the typical family. Solicitor General Garry Begg announced the government has put the former gang clubhouse of the Hells Angels up for s...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's minister of health says the province has opened 26 new treatment beds for people with addictions in four communities over the last several months. Minister Josie Osborne says the beds in Nanaimo, Kelowna, Prince Rupert and Vancouver's Downtown Eastside are part of 248 treatment beds that ...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Children's Hospital says it's seen a steady rise in the number of children coming in with respiratory symptoms. The hospital says in a statement that about 44 per cent of total visits from children to the emergency department involve respiratory illness. It says families need to consider ...

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver say they've arrested a 66-year-old man for uttering threats against a gas station clerk and only later learned the suspect was a convicted murderer out on parole from a life sentence. They say the alleged threat was made to the attendant on Saturday when the man's points card wouldn't wo...

VANCOUVER - Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon says B.C. is launching a registry for short-term rentals to further crack down on "speculators" operating illegally. Kahlon says all short-term rental operators on platforms such as Airbnb and Vrbo must apply for a registration number to be displayed on all online list...

VANCOUVER - A Finnish developer wants to bring a 250-room floating hotel into Vancouver's harbour. A statement from Sunborn International Holding says the proposed hotel would be 136 metres long and 19.5 metres high, spread out over six floors and connected to the Vancouver Convention Centre by a ramp from the seawall ...

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. - The Port of Prince Rupert says cargo shipments were up at its container terminal for liquefied petroleum gas and crop exports, but volume for last year was down by one per cent from 2023. The authority says in a statement that 23.1 million tonnes of cargo moved through the port, with metallurgical...

RICHMOND, B.C. - The union representing almost 6,000 ambulance paramedics and dispatchers in British Columbia is sounding an alarm on staffing levels "reaching critical" in the province. In a statement, the Ambulance Paramedics of British Columbia CUPE 873 says members are reporting "dozens and dozens&qu...

VANCOUVER - A boat was destroyed in the waters of the Indian Arm fjord near North Vancouver's Deep Cove on Saturday afternoon after it caught fire, smouldered for over three hours and sank. A spokesperson for the Pacific region of the Fisheries Department says Canadian Coast Guard were advised of the burning boat just ...

The leader of B.C.'s Opposition Conservative Party says Premier David Eby is putting people in the province at risk by "threatening a trade war" with the United States rather than working with the Americans. In a video posted on social media, John Rustad says everything possible needs to be done to stop drugs...

VANCOUVER - Crews in downtown Vancouver are demolishing a more than century-old heritage building that the city's chief building official says is so badly damaged it is at risk of collapse. The building at 500 Dunsmuir St. was initially a hotel and also served as barracks for merchant mariners, a Salvation Army home fo...

As the female orca known as Tahlequah once again carries the body of a dead calf through waters near Vancouver Island, for the second time in seven years, researcher Barbara J. King says there's no mistaking the nature of the phenomenon. King said she's "more convinced than ever that animals, many animals, are exp...

OTTAWA - Canadian colleges and universities are responding to a cash crunch brought on by Ottawa's cut to international student permits with layoffs, hiring freezes and service reductions, say people in the post-secondary education sector. A year ago, the federal government announced a 35 per cent reduction in study pe...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - Police are on the lookout after a large concrete sculpture of a bear weighing about 45 kilograms was stolen from a porch of a home in Port Coquitlam, B.C. Mounties say the sculpture owner called police on Jan. 11 to report the theft from their home. Police say they conducted an extensive search of the...

VANCOUVER - A residential market sales forecast by Greater Vancouver Realtors says the impact of possible tariffs from the United States would likely be short-lived. The annual report from the association that represents 15,000 Realtors says its preliminary investigation and economic modelling shows a drag on sales cou...

VANCOUVER - Below-seasonal temperatures are expected in parts of British Columbia this weekend, a year after a bitter cold snap that sent wind-chill temperatures plummeting to -20 C in Metro Vancouver and as low as -50 C in other parts of the province. Environment Canada meteorologist Lisa Erven says the coldest air ma...

VICTORIA - A mother killer whale whose calf died more than two weeks ago has recently been spotted still carrying the newborn's carcass in waters off Victoria. The Center for Whale Research says in a Facebook post on Thursday that the mother, known as J35 or Tahlequah, was seen pushing the remains on Jan. 10 between Va...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Coastal Health authority says it has changed the name of a long-term care home that was named after George Pearson, a B.C. politician who stoked anti-Japanese sentiment during the Second World War. The health authority says the former George Pearson Centre has been renamed the Oak Care Centre ...

SECHELT, B.C. - The federal government is providing $117 million to help solve what it describes as the "heightening water crisis" due to drought on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, where the Sechelt area has been hit especially hard. A statement from the Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communitie...