Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - Vancouver is poised to close out its first official snow-free winter in 43 years, in what environmental researchers say may become a new norm for southwestern British Columbia rather than ...

OTTAWA - Canada Border Services Agency says it has opened 372 immigration investigations in an effort to "disrupt extortion networks" across the country. It says the CBSA began formally monitoring imm...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has raised the ceiling to $75,000 for potential damages over intimate-image abuse, where people's photos have been shared online without their consent. The p...

RICHMOND - Investigators say a fatal crash last April of a small plane on a training flight near Abbotsford, B.C., was likely caused by the pilot not following "best practices" for mountain flying. Th...

Lululemon Athletica Inc.'s founder says Tuesday's announcement that a longtime board member won't stand for re-election is "a step in the right direction," but his replacement is "underwhelming." Chip...

Les Martson said he could see furniture floating in the basement of a friend's home when he surveyed the site of flooding near Ocean Falls, B.C., along the province's central coast. The community is a...

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is asking his counterparts in Quebec and British Columbia to drop their electric-vehicle sales targets, saying they are making the country less competitive. In the ...

Thousands of people attended the the Nowruz Fire Festival Tuesday in West Vancouver, B.C., marking the Persian New Year. Festivalgoers jumped over open fire pits at the event, hosted by the Iranian Ca...

The British Columbia government expected the small Village of Lytton to lead its own recovery from the wildfire that destroyed most of the community and killed two people in June 2021, a report from t...

VICTORIA - A recruitment campaign in the United States has allowed British Columbia to hire more than 400 health-care professionals in less than a year. Premier David Eby and Health Minister Josie Osb...