VANCOUVER - B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry is set to hold a news conference today as much of the southern half of the province remains blanketed in wildfire smoke. The news conference will also include Emergency Management Minister Kel...

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA - Fifty metres up a grand fir tree, and the rigidities of the world at ground level fall away. There are the branches, needles, the smell of freshness and a profound stillness. Look up, and tiny flakes of bark patter gent...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia Supreme Court has awarded more than $1 million in damages in a shooting that left a man with lifelong injuries and his wife traumatized after witnessing the violent confrontation. Anthony and Wendy Nelson of Sooke, B.C....

SURREY - British Columbia's police watchdog says it won't be recommending charges against officers involved in two situations where people died. The first case involved a man who was arrested in an alleged home invasion who was taken to Smithers RCMP c...

FORT ST. JOHN - Police in Fort St. John, B.C., say three people were shot and hospitalized in the latest in a string of recent shootings in the city. Mounties say in a release that the shooting on Friday was inside a home on 107A Avenue and the three ...

SUMMERLAND - Crews fighting a large wildfire near Summerland, B.C., are successfully holding the blaze on three sides, while battling challenging conditions on its western flank. An update from BC Wildfire Service says the northwestern portion of the f...

PORT COQUITLAM - A fire in Port Coquitlam, B.C., has destroyed two homes and sent one firefighter to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Jason Marshall, deputy fire chief with the Port Coquitlam Fire Department, says officers received repo...

VANCOUVER - Mike Stohler, who runs a winery with his wife in Summerland, B.C., finally got a chance to visit his vineyards, nearly a week after being evacuated due to the ferocious Bald Range wildfire that threatened the town. Stohler was allowed back ...

MAPLE RIDGE - Conservation officers in British Columbia say a black bear that was killed by RCMP officers last Sunday was, "in fact," responsible for an attack that had left a three-year-old girl with injuries. Conservation officers took to social med...

CLINTON - At the age of 52, Steve Larabie is facing the daunting task of rebuilding his home and business from scratch after losing everything when ferocious wildfires roared into the outskirts of Clinton, B.C., last month. "It's all gone. I have noth...

VANCOUVER - Helen Benallick said she was fast asleep with her husband at their home in Summerland, B.C., last week when she was woken up by neighbours ringing her doorbell. They told the couple they needed to escape the Bald Range wildfire that was rac...

SURREY - Homicide investigators in British Columbia say two men have been arrested and charged in the gang-related killing of another man inside a taxi in Langley last year. Police say in a release that 35-year-old Jared Douglas Polischuk and 29-year-o...

After 20 seasons as a migrant worker in Canada Manuel Hernandez Cruz says he and others like him are in a "critical" situation as a wildfire in the Okanagan forced them to flee the jobs they depend on with no word on when they will be able to return or...

The B.C. Conservatives have lost one of their leading moderate voices, with Peter Milobar citing a lack of "ideological alignment" with leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay for his decision to sit as an Independent. He announced his exit from the opposition Con...

VANCOUVER - A man has been seriously injured in what police call a stranger attack after the AC/DC rock concert in Vancouver. It happened just before midnight on Thursday, when a couple was walking back to their hotel near Nelson and Richards streets f...

VANCOUVER - B.C. Premier David Eby has rearranged his cabinet after Finance Minister Brenda Bailey announced a cancer diagnosis. Health Minister Josie Osborne will take over the finance portfolio, while Jobs Minister Ravi Kahlon will step into the Hea...

VANCOUVER - Some of the first evacuees from the deadly British Columbia wildfire that had threatened Summerland and Peachland on the shores of Okanagan Lake are being allowed home, with authorities warning of risks including fallen trees, damaged build...

VANCOUVER - Thunder and lightning were recorded over the skies of Metro Vancouver today with Environment Canada warning of thunderstorm in the region. The weather forecast agency's tracking map shows lightning in areas that stretch from Richmond and Ne...

PENTICTON - The main highway through Summerland, B.C., has temporarily reopened, giving people a limited glimpse into some of the destruction of a fast-moving fire that chased thousands from the city and surrounding communities last weekend. Charred h...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Finance Minister Brenda Bailey says she has early-stage, treatable cancer. Bailey said in a post on social media that the diagnosis came a few weeks ago and she has been given a good prognosis for full recovery. "I will be r...

VICTORIA - The minister responsible for treaty negotiations with First Nations in B.C. confirms public access to 30 properties, including a well-known castle, could be limited or lost completely following an agreement. More than 30 years of talks betw...

OTTAWA - The commanding officer for the RCMP in British Columbia has been relieved of his duties after unspecified allegations from a decade ago. RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme issued a statement Thursday saying the allegations against Dwayne McDonald d...

Three local union chapters representing transit workers in Metro Vancouver and Victoria have issued 72-hour strike notices to the employers. A statement from Unifor says transit operators in Local 111 and skilled-trade workers in Local 2200 will start ...

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver say a Mexican national has been charged with second-degree murder in a cold case dating back three decades. Vancouver police say 68-year-old Juan Manuel Rueda Salud was escorted by officers from Mexico to Vancouver on We...

Premier David Eby has said British Columbia's wildfire season turned "brutal," with a ferocious blaze that led to the death of an 80-year-old woman and forced some 20,000 people out of their homes in the south Okanagan last weekend. Here are key facts ...

PORT MOODY - Police in Port Moody, B.C., say a dog owner has been criminally charged after two large dogs are alleged to have mauled a woman. Police in the Metro Vancouver city were called to a report of the attack on May 20 after receiving reports of ...

VANCOUVER - A weak market in the Lower Mainland is weighing on homes sales in British Columbia, with both transactions and average prices falling in July. The British Columbia Real Estate Association says 6,561 residential property sales were recorded ...

PENTICTON - Hillsides and forest-scarred black can be seen north of Summerland, B.C., along with the wreckage of an inn that provided an idyllic wedding location beside Okanagan Lake before the deadly Bald Range wildfire ripped through the area over th...