COQUIHALLA HIGHWAY - BC Highway Patrol is looking for a specific witness to a single-vehicle collision on the Coquihalla Highway more than a week ago.At around 2:15 p.m. on July 30, officers were called to the incident on Highway 5 northbound near Exit 286, just south of Merritt. A white GMC Sierra pickup had flipped o...

SURREY - B.C.'s police watchdog is now investigating after a motorcyclist tried to flee from Surrey police early Friday morning (Aug. 7). At around 3:30 a.m., the Surrey Police Service says an officer tried to pull over a speeding motorcycle near the Trans-Canada Highway and the 104 Avenue offramp, but the rider instea...

SURREY - British Columbia's police watchdog agency says it doesn't believe an Abbotsford officer committed an offence when a traffic-stop arrest turned fatal last year. The Independent Investigations Office says in a report into the death of a man on F...

ABBOTSFORD - An aviation icon is set to take its final flight in the RCAF service at the Abbotsford International Airshow this weekend - but its wings aren't clipped just yet. The federal government announced today (Aug. 7) that it has sold 10 retired CC-130H Hercules aircraft to Port Alberni-based Coulson Aviation to ...

CHILLIWACK - July labour figures from Statistics Canada are showing some respite from the unemployment front across parts of B.C.Chilliwack added 2,100 jobs in July, cutting its unemployment rate from 8 to 6.9 per cent last month, though it remained up by 1.3 per cent from July 2025.Abbotsford-Mission added 400 jobs, w...

ABBOTSFORD - The B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Transit is advising drivers of upcoming congestion on Highway 1 as the Abbotsford Airshow kicks off in the Fraser Valley."The event is expected to draw large crowds of spectators, increasing traffic around the Abbotsford International Airport and surrounding are...

A dangerous new wildfire west of Summerland, B.C, has triggered an evacuation order for the entire district. District officials issued the order, which went into effect at 12:10 a.m. local time, along with a declaration of a state of emergency. The ord...

Officials in the Central Okanagan are urging people who have remained in their homes in areas under evacuation order to leave, saying forecasted winds may fan the flames of the Quilpituk Creek wildfire in the coming days. A statement from the region's ...

SUMMERLAND - Evacuations are underway around Summerland, B.C., after a new wildfire west of Okanagan Lake exploded in size. Social media videos appeared to show multiple houses and other structures on fire in Faulder, west of Summerland, where resident...

VANCOUVER - The union representing Metro Vancouver transit bus operators says its members have rejected a second tentative deal reached by negotiators. Unifor says in a statement that union workers will begin job action on Aug. 17 by launching a ban on...

SURREY - British Columbia's police watchdog agency says it doesn't believe an Abbotsford officer committed an offence when a traffic-stop arrest turned fatal last year. The Independent Investigations Office says in a report into the death of a man on F...

COURTENAY - The Fisheries Department says it has wrapped up a three-year investigation into illegal shellfish harvesting on Vancouver Island that has resulted in $18,000 in total fines against four people. The Fisheries Department says the investigati...

OTTAWA - The federal government is working on a project that would map out areas of Canada that lack local news coverage. "Canadian Heritage has recently engaged a team of independent industry experts to develop a local news directory - a multi-phase, ...

A dangerous new wildfire west of Summerland, B.C, has triggered an evacuation order for the entire district. District officials issued the order, which went into effect at 12:10 a.m. local time, along with a declaration of a state of emergency. The ord...

Officials in the Central Okanagan are urging people who have remained in their homes in areas under evacuation order to leave, saying forecasted winds may fan the flames of the Quilpituk Creek wildfire in the coming days. A statement from the region's ...

TORONTO - As the clock ticks down on a temporary program that brought a wave of Turkish and Syrian people to Canada after a deadly earthquake, a mother and her son have embarked on a weeks-long journey to press Ottawa for an extension for those stuck i...

SUMMERLAND - Evacuations are underway around Summerland, B.C., after a new wildfire west of Okanagan Lake exploded in size. Social media videos appeared to show multiple houses and other structures on fire in Faulder, west of Summerland, where resident...

TORONTO - The federal government has reinstated full coverage for a handful of health-care services for refugees, but doctors say it's not nearly enough. On May 1, Canada's Interim Federal Health Program imposed a 30 per cent co-payment requirement fo...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general in a vote early Saturday morning, cementing President Donald Trump's former personal attorney's command of a Justice Department the Republican president has sought to bend to his w...

RICHFIELD, Utah (AP) - A helicopter helping battle a large Utah wildfire crashed Friday with no word on the conditions of the two people aboard as officials said they couldn't immediately reach the crash site. The helicopter was one of se...

The Senate on Friday confirmed Cameron Hamilton as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, returning the former Navy SEAL to the embattled agency he led temporarily last year only to be fired after he publicly opposed eliminating it. ...

MEXICO CITY - Canada's quest for a berth in the next Olympic men's soccer tournament has come to an end at the CONCACAF U-20 Championship in Mexico. The national squad fell 2-1 to the host nation in Friday's semifinals, despite a goal from Owen Graham-...

Friday's Scoreboard CFL Saskatchewan 42 Ottawa 20 --- MLB Interleague Toronto 5 Philadelphia 4 Tampa Bay 2 Seattle 1 N.Y. Yankees 3 Atlanta 2 (10) Chicago Cubs 6 Kansas City 4 L.A. Angels 4 Miami 3 Minnesota 8 Milwaukee 6 Houston 6 San Diego 3 San Fran...

VANCOUVER - Untimely errors once again foiled the Vancouver Whitecaps on Friday. After controlling 62.3 per cent of possession across the game and outshooting their opponents 27-6, the 'Caps fell 3-1 to FC Juárez in Vancouver. It was the club's second...