UPDATE, 5:20 P.M. THURSDAY: Chilliwack Mayor Ken Popove has issued a statement about the WHL: "I recently shared a personal opinion on our local radio station, and acknowledge that my comments may have been misinterpreted as the opinion of Council. I would like to clarify my intentions and confirm the City of Chi...

HOPE - The B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Transit says Highway 1 will be reduced to one lane eastbound and one lane westbound at Flood Hope Road (exit 165) starting Thursday night to remediate a rapidly deteriorating sinkhole across e/b lanes. According to a statement from the province, a sinkhole initially surfac...

CHILLIWACK - As business groups begin to push back on a proposed bill that would grant the B.C. government cabinet sweeping powers to respond to tariff threats from foreign governments, Chilliwack-Cultus Lake MLA Á'a:líya Warbus and Chilliwack North MLA Heather Maahs will hold an emergency town hall tomor...

CHILLIWACK - Roughly five months after she captured nearly 55 per cent of the vote in last year's provincial election, Chilliwack-Cultus Lake Á'a:líya Warbus welcomed the community to her constituency office during an open house yesterday. Warbus held an open house in suite J4, 6640 Vedder Road, on Wednes...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver police say they are investigating 28 anti-Tesla incidents and will deploy more than 130 extra officers to "maintain order" at protests targeting the electric carmaker this weekend. The force says in a statement that the incidents targeting Tesla are suspected to be politically motivated ...

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver abortion and reproductive health clinic that has operated for more than three decades is shutting its doors due to funding uncertainty. The Elizabeth Bagshaw Clinic says the facility's lease is set to run out this summer, and relocating and investing in a new site "did not make sense" ...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is allowing the height of the Mount Polley tailings dam to be raised an extra four metres, a decade after a similar storage site burst in one of the province's biggest environmental disasters. A statement from the Mining and Environment ministers says the extra height is to en...

VANCOUVER - Researchers at the University of British Columbia say they're gearing up to start "real-world testing" of a stir stick that can detect if a drink has been spiked with drugs. The university says in a news release that the device called "Spikeless" was developed in its faculty of applied s...

VICTORIA - B.C.'s ombudsperson says the lack of provincial standards guiding ethics of local politicians opens the door to interference and erodes public trust. Jay Chalke has issued a letter to the province urging it to bring in legislation after two recent reports out of Vancouver, saying current codes of conduct for...

Proposed legislation in British Columbia to give the cabinet sweeping powers to respond to threats from foreign governments amid Canada's tariff fight is getting more pushback from businesses as the Greens meet with the government about their concerns. BC Chamber of Commerce President Fiona Famulak says in a letter to ...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver police say they are investigating 28 anti-Tesla incidents and will deploy more than 130 extra officers to "maintain order" at protests targeting the electric carmaker this weekend. The force says in a statement that the incidents targeting Tesla are suspected to be politically motivated ...

MONTREAL - Canada's most wanted fugitive has been arrested in Italy after more than a year at large. Dave (Pik) Turmel, alleged by police to be the head of Quebec street gang Blood Family Mafia, was arrested in Rome on Thursday after local police were tipped off about his presence in the Italian capital. Quebec City po...

MONTREAL - A United States helicopter company is facing a $50-million lawsuit in the 2019 crash that killed the founder of a Quebec greenhouse farming company and his teenage son. The estate of Stéphane Roy, the late founder and ex-CEO of Savoura, has launched a lawsuit against Robinson Helicopter Company Inc. i...

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver abortion and reproductive health clinic that has operated for more than three decades is shutting its doors due to funding uncertainty. The Elizabeth Bagshaw Clinic says the facility's lease is set to run out this summer, and relocating and investing in a new site "did not make sense" ...

OTTAWA - The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $26.8 billion for the April-to-January period of its 2024-25 fiscal year. The result compared with a deficit of $25.7 billion for the same period a year earlier. According to the Finance Department's monthly fiscal monitor, revenue for the 10-month period to...

OTTAWA - A White House official says Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to speak with U.S. President Donald Trump this morning. More to come. Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press

NUUK, Greenland (AP) - Vice President JD Vance, his wife and other senior U.S. officials visited an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original itinerary was planned without consulting them. The revised trip t...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A second South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. Mikal Mahdi chose the firing squad Friday. His execution is scheduled for April 11. Mahdi was convicted for killing a police officer with a gun he stole...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court for permission to resume deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law, while a court fight continues. The emergency appeal to the high court follows a rejection of the Republican administration's plea to...

Italy appears to be one big step closer to having the sliding events at next year's Milan-Cortina Olympics on its own track after all. The International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation said Friday that it has declared this week's testing period at the Cortina d'Ampezzo track "successful" and that it looks for...

The Memphis Grizzlies fired Taylor Jenkins, their winningest coach, on Friday with the team struggling down the stretch and at risk of losing home-court advantage for the postseason. Still sitting at No. 5 in the Western Conference standings, the Grizzlies decided to dump Jenkins anyway without immediately announcing a...

Mackenzie Blackwood can describe the sequence down to its finest detail. The spot on the ice. How the shot went in. And, of course, which player fired the puck by his ear before there was time to react. Alex Ovechkin blasted the 700th regular-season goal of a banner NHL career past the then-New Jersey Devils goaltender...