SQUAMISH - Mounties in Squamish, B.C., say the bodies of two people who went missing while paddleboarding on Browning Lake in Murrin Provincial Park last weekend have been found. The Sea to Sky RCMP say in a news release that police received a report a...

WILLIAMS LAKE - The Cariboo Regional District has issued an evacuation alert for properties due an out of control wildfire. The notice says the alert covers 22 parcels and nearly 180 square kilometres of land as the so-called Swede Creek Wildfire burns...

Two Mounties at a B.C. Supreme Court murder trial told a jury that a "dishevelled" man appeared on a forest-service road as a bloodstained car was being towed away and told the officers he'd murdered his ex-wife and had tried to kill himself. Const. Ni...

WILLIAMS LAKE - It's a busy time for ospreys in British Columbia as they find a tall place to build their nests, but the provincial power utility says it can also be a dangerous period for them. BC Hydro says its crews have recently moved two osprey n...

SURREY - Homicide investigators have identified the victim of a fatal shooting over the weekend in Metro Vancouver as an 18-year-old man. Police say Gaurav Deol was found with gunshot wounds early on Sunday morning in Surrey near 138 Street and 62 Aven...

SURREY - The police chief in Surrey, B.C., has left the service in an exit that also triggered the resignation of the police board chair, who said the decision was made at meeting his colleagues knew he couldn't attend, and that "political tentacles" h...

Metro Vancouver is imposing Stage 3 water restrictions next week after an early deployment of Stage 2 bans failed to curb high usage in the region. The new bans come when much of southwestern British Columbia and the southern Interior face drought thre...

DELTA - An independent mediator has found online retail giant Amazon responsible for the breakdown of first-contract bargaining at YVR2, its only unionized fulfilment centre in British Columbia. The union representing the workers in Delta says the med...

BURNABY - The Metro Vancouver regional district says it is moving ahead with an independent review into the North Shore wastewater treatment plant over its construction costs that ballooned to $3.86 billion. The district says in a statement that lawye...

VANCOUVER - Health officials in British Columbia say invasive mosquitoes and a virus that can cause brain swelling in humans have been detected in the Sea-to-Sky region north of Vancouver, after an investigation triggered by a cluster of childhood ence...

SURREY - Homicide investigators and British Columbia's police watchdog have been called in to investigate after a stabbing in Surrey, B.C., left one person dead and another injured, and led to a police-involved shooting of the suspect. The Integrated H...

BURNABY - More than 110 animal welfare workers across the Lower Mainland have approved using strike action in their labour dispute with British Columbia's SPCA. CUPE 1622, which represents workers covering Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, says in...

SURREY - An investigation team in Surrey, B.C., says charges are piling up against two men accused of firing bullets into an extortion victim's home. Surrey Police Service's Extortion Response Team says in a statement that Damanjeet Singh and Pardaman...

VICTORIA - Two former B.C. Conservative legislators now sitting as Independents say new leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay will polarize the province. Amelia Boultbee said Findlay's victory on Saturday showed that part of the B.C. Conservative base and board w...

SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating after video of people vandalizing a rainbow crosswalk was posted on social media over the weekend by the leader of a registered political party. Police say they identified three people of interest, and...

VANCOUVER - Striking Metro Vancouver workers have expanded labour action to cover the region's watersheds and treatment plants, but the union says there will be no risk to public health. The Greater Vancouver Regional District Employees' Union says in ...

MAPLE RIDGE - Homicide officers are investigating a fight in Metro Vancouver that left one man dead. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says in a release that RCMP were called to the scene Saturday evening near 223 Street and River Road in Map...

VANCOUVER - Billionaire and Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson has won a legal challenge to lower the assessed value of his Vancouver waterfront mansion - long listed as the most expensive home in British Columbia - by more than $18 million. The B...

VANCOUVER - Kerry-Lynne Findlay won the B.C. Conservative leadership race because she is an "authentic champion" of populism within the broader conservative movement, says an analyst who studies modern conservatism in western countries. David Black, w...

VANCOUVER - Police in Surrey say the RCMP has taken over the investigation into a shooting that has left a male dead in that community. Surrey Police Service says in a statement that it responded to reports of a shooting in the area of 138 Street and 6...

VANCOUVER - A spokesperson for the RCMP says that the search for two individuals who had been paddleboarding in a provincial park has resumed. Cpl. Katrina Boehmer of the Sea to Sky RCMP detachment based in Squamish, B.C., says police received a report...

VANCOUVER - Emergency officials in British Columbia are warning of flooding along the Columbia River in the southeastern corner of the province bordering Alberta. A flood warning was issued Saturday for areas along the upper part of the river, includin...

VANCOUVER - Former federal MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay has won the race to replace former British Columbia Conservative leader John Rustad on the fourth ballot, beating commentator Caroline Elliott. Findlay won with 51 per cent of the vote, just ahead of El...

SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., have fatally shot a suspect after one person was stabbed to death and another was injured. Surrey police say they were called to a building on Old Yale Road early Friday afternoon about an assault. They say officers fou...

The family of a Canadian theatre producer who helped establish fringe festivals across the country is appealing for financial help as he recovers from pneumonia in a Mexican hospital. Erinne Paisley says her father, Brian Paisley, 79, was in Puerto Esc...

NANAIMO - Paramedics across the province, including Nanaimo, have had their hands full recently responding to overdose/drug poisoning events. A new daily record of 326 such calls to assist patients province-wide were made to BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) on Wednesday, May 27. The situation was dire in Nanaimo, w...

SURREY - Mounties in British Columbia are warning the public of service issues for non-emergency phone lines at some detachments in the province. A news release says the problem is under investigation and work is being done to restore service. It says ...

MAPLE RIDGE - Conservation officers have killed a female black bear and captured two cubs after multiple reports of conflict with humans in Golden Ears Provincial Park in Maple Ridge, B.C. British Columbia's Conservation Officer Service says in a post ...