SURREY - Health remains a top item on the British Columbia election agenda as the campaign enters its final days. NDP Leader David Eby will be making an announcement at the Surrey Hospital construction site in the election-battleground city, a day afte...

FRIDAY HARBOR - The endangered southern resident killer whale population has increased by one after a calf was spotted in waters near British Columbia. The Center for Whale Research says in an email statement that the new calf was first spotted on Mond...

WAINWRIGHT - Four Armed Forces members were killed when a fast-moving fire overwhelmed soldiers during a training exercise at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, southeast of Edmonton, on Saturday. Dozens of others were injured, with 33 still in hospital ...

Teresa Hiatt wasn't worried about her younger brother while he was training at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta before deployment to Latvia. All that changed Saturday when news broke that a fast-moving grass fire at the military base had kill...

Both the British Columbia Conservatives and the New Democrats have promised to extend the SkyTrain transit line in Surrey, B.C., in an attempt to sway support in the vote-rich city, just days before the Oct. 24 provincial election. The campaigns issue...

LYTTON - The municipal election in Lytton, B.C., has resulted in a tie between two mayoral candidates with differing views on the community's recovery from a devastating wildfire that destroyed much of the village five years ago. The results posted to ...

VANCOUVER - A humpback whale has been struck by a BC Ferries vessel in waters near Metro Vancouver. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says in an email that they were alerted to the collision on Sunday, when the Queen of Surrey reportedly struck the whale nea...

VANCOUVER - Police say four people have been stabbed in an attack at a Vancouver nightclub over the weekend. It happened Saturday inside a club on city's Granville Entertainment District at around 3 a.m. Police say arriving officers found the four hurt...

The British Columbia Conservatives' projection of 3.2 per cent economic growth by 2029 represents about one per cent "more optimism" than the New Democrats previously budgeted for, interim Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson said. The Conservatives' fig...

ABBOTSFORD BRITISH COLUMBIA - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge says a portion of the Criminal Code restricting multiple murderers from applying for early parole under the so-called "faint-hope" clause is in breach of a section of the Charter of R...

MERRITT, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Police have arrested a driver involved in a fatal crash on the Coquihalla Highway on allegations he was going in the wrong direction and was impaired. The BC Highway Patrol says in a statement that the crash happene...

WAINWRIGHT - Canadian Blood Services says it has been "deeply moved" by a surge in public support following a deadly fire at a military base in Wainwright, Alta. The non-profit reported Monday that it saw a fourfold increase in the number of appointmen...

WAINWRIGHT - Residents of the town of Wainwright, Alta., are grieving after a deadly fire swept up by fierce winds overtook soldiers during a training exercise at the local military base Saturday, killing four and wounding dozens. Sharon Pashko, 79, wa...

The British Columbia Conservatives say their election platform amounts to restraint, not austerity, and will create $2.6 billion in new revenue over three years, while shrinking the deficit to $10.8 billion by 2030. The document released Sunday, with r...

VICTORIA - British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby is appealing to Greens for their votes as the provincial election enters its final week, but Green Party Leader Emily Lowan says he is just trying to frighten voters. Eby said on Sunday that Green suppo...

Some incumbent candidates have taken a beating in British Columbia's municipal elections. Voters on Saturday evicted the mayors of Vancouver and Surrey, the province's two biggest cities. Here's a look at some of the results. BIG TURNOUT IN VANCOUVER, ...

VANCOUVER - Hedy Fry is no stranger to election nights after more than three decades representing her riding in Vancouver as a Liberal member of Parliament. But election night Saturday, when she watched her son Pete Fry become the city's next Vancouve...

WINNIPEG - The giants that Diane Poulin used to live among are all dead, but she's hoping to protect the ones still left in Winnipeg. "I had five mature elm trees right in front of my house that leaned over the street and formed a beautiful canopy, and...

MONTREAL - On July 13, a pair of Canadair water bombers touched down on the Seine River, skimming along its surface to refill their water tanks as they battled a wildfire south of Paris. The "super scoopers," with their signature ketchup-red wing tips ...

SURREY - CentreBC Leader Elenore Sturko has announced plans for a $25-million-a-year "rural ER stabilization fund" to help keep emergency rooms open in the province. The party's campaign pledge says the fund would pay locum doctors and nurses, and fund...

Pete Fry is Vancouver's next mayor. Fry won the municipal election Saturday, defeating incumbent Ken Sim and six other challengers vying to lead British Columbia's largest city. He celebrated with supporters at a campaign party in Vancouver and held a ...

SURREY - Police say there are no reports of serious injuries after a crash involving a semi-truck and trailer, a bus and several other vehicles that forced the closure of Highway 99 in both directions in south Surrey, B.C., on Friday. Staff Sgt. Lindse...

A 27-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with two homicides in Burnaby, B.C., three years ago. Investigators say Mohammed Arif Ansari was arrested Friday, and two counts of second-degree murder and one count of indignity to human ...

British Columbians have started voting in the provincial election without the release of a costed platform from the B.C. Conservatives, whose leader says it will be announced "imminently." Interim leader Lorne Doerkson said at a Metro Vancouver campaig...

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver police officer involved in the fatal arrest of Myles Gray has addressed the man's family, telling them the "tragic" outcome was never the intention of police. But Const. Beau Spencer had told the public hearing in Vancouver earl...

VICTORIA - Jim Leard had just cast his ballot for Emily Lowan on Friday when he ran into the British Columbia Green Party leader outside a high school in Greater Victoria. "We have a saying in the family, because we all vote Green, 'someone has to tal...

VICTORIA - The founder of a ballet school in Greater Victoria has been found guilty of two sexual offences over his relationship with a 15-year-old student. David Beales was originally charged with sexual interference, sexual exploitation and making s...

VANCOUVER - Author and former University of British Columbia creative writing chair Steven Galloway has concluded testifying in his defamation lawsuit trial in Vancouver. Galloway, who alleges the defendants defamed him by publishing unproven allegati...