PEMBERTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - A glacial outburst near Pemberton, B.C., is "well into the rapid drawdown phase," gushing water and debris downstream with flows expected to reach a peak on Monday. The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District says in ...

FORT ST. JOHN - A group of First Nations in British Columbia says a new native plant orchard could help reclaim and restore thousands of industrial sites around northeastern B.C. The Blueberry First Nations near Fort St. John unveiled the orchard last...

NORTH COWICHAN - British Columbia's Crown utility BC Hydro is launching a procurement process for a large battery energy storage project on Vancouver Island, the first such infrastructure in the province. Energy Minister Adrian Dix says the project is ...

PRINCE GEORGE - Enbridge Inc. has broken ground on a $4-billion natural gas pipeline expansion in British Columbia. The federal government approved the Sunrise Expansion Program in April. The project aims to add another 300 million cubic feet per day...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has issued a notice warning people to be vigilant about water safety after a spike in drowning deaths in the last few months. The province says in a statement that there have been 40 accidental drownings in B....

More than 930 fires were burning across Canada on Monday, the national wildland fire summary shows. Many blazes continued to threaten communities in their path, especially in Ontario where evacuations have displaced approximately 1,800 people. Here's a...

Statistics Canada says customers paid a lot more for travel services last month, particularly in Toronto and Vancouver - the country's host cities for the World Cup. The agency says the cost of traveller accommodation for June rose about 20 per cent ye...

PORT HARDY - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck under the ocean off Vancouver Island. Earthquakes Canada says the quake happened at 11:41 p.m. local time on Sunday 219 kilometres southwest of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island's northern tip. It struck...

The Mayor of Kimberley, B.C., says his town's fate depends on the mercy of the wind after the entire city of more than 8,000 residents near the Alberta boundary was put on evacuation alert due to an out-of-control wildfire. The Matthew Creek fire is a...

OTTAWA - The federal government has awarded Babcock Canada a six-year extension of its servicing contract for the Royal Canadian Navy's Victoria-class submarines. The contract is valued at $1.1 billion and includes options to extend in-service support ...

The remains of a dinosaur skull found in British Columbia campground belonged to a tyrannosaur that was lighter and faster than its more famous relative, the T. rex, say the authors of a new study. University of Alberta and McGill University researche...

VICTORIA - Penticton RCMP say they are investigating a Saturday night assault on the grounds of a local elementary school. Mounties say officers responded just before 11 p.m. to Queen's Park Elementary after receiving a report of an assault. Two people...

Environment Canada is telling British Columbians to brace for poor air quality in the coming days, even as wildfire officials have downgraded a fire north of Whistler, B.C. and lifted evacuation alerts elsewhere. The weather agency said in an air-quali...

Nearly 1,000 active wildfires are burning across Canada, according to the national wildland fire summary, including 35 new blazes reported Sunday. More than 200 fires are deemed out of control. The fires continue to prompt air quality warnings, which ...

VICTORIA - Regional officials say water from a glacial lake near Pemberton, B.C. has started to flow downstream, threatening nearby properties. The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District says the public must stay away from Place Creek, Poole Creek, Gates...

VICTORIA - A former B.C. cabinet minister is the new leader of CentreBC, an upstart political party that lacks a seat in the legislature but offers itself as a middle-of-the-road alternative to the two major parties in provincial politics. The party a...

More than 950 wildfires are scorching Canada from coast to coast, the national wildland fire summary says. Roughly 241 blazes are out of control. The fires have prompted Environment Canada to issue air quality warnings from B.C. to Quebec, as well as t...

The wildfire season in British Columbia has been transformed in a flash, with lightning strikes sending the number of blazes burning in the province past 100. One of those fires is the Signal Hill Wildfire, which on Saturday afternoon was burning about...

OTTAWA - Across Canada, plans are underway for a massive boom in construction of the huge new data centres needed for artificial intelligence technology. But opposition is also building as residents worry about how the facilities will affect their comm...

PRINCE GEORGE - The union representing 60,000 nurses in British Columbia says four days of mediated talks with the employers have been "productive" but it's "too early to know" if a deal can be reached. BC Nurses' Union president Adriane Gear says in a...

VANCOUVER - The Canadian Cancer Society says Canada's federal and provincial governments need to strengthen regulations of vaping products to stem more youth addiction to nicotine, as e-cigarette marketing practices are poised to be put on trial in a n...

B.C. Premier David Eby said would tell Prime Minister Mark Carney that no trade deal with the U.S. is better than a bad one at a first ministers' meeting where he would also push Ottawa for American-style anti-racketeering laws to go after organized cr...

Just over 900 fires are burning across Canada, the national wildland fire summary indicates. Of those, 122 are listed out of control. Smoke from those fires is choking out millions in major cities across North America. Here's a brief look at what is h...

The out-of-control Ainslie Creek wildfire north of Boston Bar, B.C., has destroyed at least seven buildings, including four homes or seasonal cabins, an official with the Fraser Valley Regional District said Friday amid a spike in wildfire activity in ...

British Columbia's Environmental Assessment Office has signed an agreement with the Simpcw First Nation on how a proposed open-pit copper mine will be assessed, including the requirement for the nation's consent for the project to proceed. The consent ...

CHICAGO - The Vancouver Whitecaps' Major League Soccer road game against the Fire scheduled for Thursday night has been postponed due to poor air quality in Chicago caused by wildfires in northern Ontario. The league and the two teams said in a joint s...

TSAWWASSEN - The federal government has referred a plan to vastly expand the Port of Vancouver to Canada's Major Projects Office for possible fast-tracking, boosting a project that environmentalists have fought for years. Federal Transport Minister St...

PEMBERTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Pemberton Mayor Mike Richman says Wednesday evening was a long night for residents who watched from their homes as firefighters battled a blaze that grew quickly to threaten their small B.C. community. "Nights are ...