CHAWATHIL FIRST NATION - The host of a popular podcast who served as an elected councillor and graduated from the Peter A. Allard School School of Law at UBC is the newly elected chief of a First Nation band located west of Hope. In a statement, Aaron Pete, who graduated with a criminology degree from UFV, announced Th...

ABBOTSFORD - The morning drive westbound on Highway 1 between Abbotsford and Langley is a huge mess. DriveBC reported at 9:30 a.m. on its X/Twitter account that a westbound vehicle incident just west of Bradner Road, between exit 83 (Mt. Lehman) and exit 73 (264 St.) is blocking a lane. Motorists should expect delays d...

MISSION - One of British Columbia's largest Indigenous powwows returns to the Fraser Valley this weekend. The Visionary Youth Peers for Equity and Revitalization (VYPER), an Indigenous youth-led group, will hold its annual Reclaiming Youth Powwow Friday, July 11 to Sunday, July 13 on the grounds of the former St. Mary'...

CHILLIWACK - Multiple Chilliwack Fire Department engines were paged Wednesday night after a vehicle reportedly struck a fence and car, and made contact with a utility pole, on Wells Road near Richardson Avenue in Sardis. According to scanner traffic, firefighters were first paged about a vehicle into a building at appr...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia father and son are suing the Anglican Church of Canada, alleging the son was conceived as a result of sexual abuse by a female employee of St. Michael's Indian Residential School in Alert Bay in the late 1960s. The lawsuit says the father was 14 years old when he was victimized by a schoo...

While optimism is building in some parts of Canada for a rebound in the real estate market, condominium dwellers wanting to move up to a larger space face tough choices amid little sign of improvement for that segment. Cities like Toronto and Vancouver have seen condo sales drop off, if not stagnate, in recent years fo...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver's city council has voted unanimously to reduce the speed limit on local streets to 30 kilometres per hour, down from the provincially mandated 50 kilometres per hour. The city says in a release that the vote "sets the stage" for the phased introduction of the new limit on residential str...

In the kitchen of Northwest Fudge Factory in Levack, Ont., a group of five children spent the better part of a day last month mixing hundreds of kilograms of butter, sugar, chocolate and graham crackers before carefully spreading distinct layers on top of each other. The result was a 544-kilogram Nanaimo bar that they ...

The man accused of murdering his estranged wife, Bailey Plover, in a Kelowna, B.C., parking lot last week had been convicted of choking someone and uttering threats just hours before Friday's attack that also left a second woman seriously hurt. The BC Prosecution Service says James Plover was originally charged in June...

MISSION, B.C. - Police in Mission, B.C., say they were recently called to a "juicy incident" which then set off a series of puns from the local RCMP detachment. Police say a loaded pickup spilled crates of freshly picked blueberries at the intersection of Lougheed Highway and Wren Street on June 29. Thousands...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia father and son are suing the Anglican Church of Canada, alleging the son was conceived as a result of sexual abuse by a female employee of St. Michael's Indian Residential School in Alert Bay in the late 1960s. The lawsuit says the father was 14 years old when he was victimized by a schoo...

MONTREAL - A new report says Montreal should stop dismantling homeless encampments until the city develops a policy to better care for the unhoused. Montreal's public consultation office says the city should instead create safer living conditions in the encampments by improving access to drinking water, toilets, waste ...

OTTAWA - The NDP national council is expected to meet Thursday evening to continue work on rules for the upcoming leadership race to replace Jagmeet Singh. Some in the party, including former MPs, say the race will help cover the party's campaign debt through increased fundraising efforts. But former party staffers and...

WASHINGTON - A new report from a New York-based think tank questions the drug trafficking rationale for U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada, saying the data shows the vast majority of fentanyl seizures in the United States are linked to the southern border. The Manhattan Institute analyzed newly released da...

OTTAWA - Lt.-Gen. Jamie Speiser-Blanchet has become the first woman to lead the Royal Canadian Air Force. She took the reins from Lt.-Gen. Eric Kenny at a change-of-command ceremony, presided over by the Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan, in Ottawa today. Kenny is retiring after three-and-a-half decades o...

OTTAWA - Parliament's fiscal watchdog says the Canada Infrastructure Bank is more than $20 billion short of its investment targets for the coming years. In a new report, the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer says the infrastructure bank is on track to disburse $14.9 billion by 2027/28 - well below its $35-bill...

LONDON (AP) - Britain and France agreed Thursday to a pilot plan that will send some migrants who cross the English Channel on small boats back to France as the U.K. government struggles to tamp down criticism that it has lost control of the country's borders. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emman...

LONDON (AP) - Amanda Anisimova upset No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 at Wimbledon on Thursday to reach the first Grand Slam final of her career a little more than a year after taking a break from tennis because of burnout. The 13th-seeded Anisimova, who was born in New Jersey and grew up in Florida, was play...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A federal judge in New Hampshire said Thursday he will certify a class action lawsuit including all children who will be affected by President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship and issue a preliminary injunction blocking it. Judge Joseph LaPlante announced his decision af...

Cooper Coats will make his first start at fly half while fullback Brenden Black earns his first 15s cap when Canada hosts Belgium on Saturday in Stephen Meehan's first game as Canadian rugby coach. Appointed in December, Meehan officially started in April. The 59-year-old Australian succeeds Kingsley Jones, who stepped...

VIRE NORMANDIE, France (AP) - Irish rider Ben Healy won a hilly sixth stage of the Tour de France after a long solo breakaway on Thursday and Mathieu van der Poel took back the yellow jersey from defending champion Tadej Pogačar by one second. The 24-year-old Healy had won a stage on the Giro d'Italia before, but this...

TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors have signed Alijah Martin to a two-way contract, the NBA team announced Thursday. The six-foot-two, 208-pound guard was selected by the Raptors in the second round (39th overall) in the 2025 NBA draft. Martin spent last season with the 2025 NCAA-champion Florida Gators, averaging 14.4 poin...