FORT ST. JOHN - British Columbia's Ministry of Transportation says workers have started draining water from a landslide in the province's northeast that has forced residents out of their homes for weeks. An update on the slide blocking the road into Ol...

SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., say they have identified two suspects in an alleged attack on an eight-year-old boy in a haunted house attraction during the city's Khalsa Day celebrations. Surrey police did not release details on the two male suspects...

OTTAWA - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Friday she was feeling far more confident about the prospects for a new pipeline following a meeting in Ottawa with Prime Minister Mark Carney earlier in the day. "This morning I said 'if' a deal gets signed...

ABBOTSFORD - A B.C. Supreme Court judge is expected to deliver her verdict today in the first-degree murder trial of three young men accused of killing an Abbotsford, B.C., couple during a home invasion in 2022. The court earlier heard that 77-year-ol...

BURNABY - British Columbia nurses have begun a strike vote in their labour dispute with the province, the union representing them said Friday. A statement from the BC Nurses' Union said members of its bargaining association have been asked to cast thei...

VICTORIA - Victoria's police chief has announced that one of her department's constables has been charged with sexual assault, saying she believed in transparency because such an incident could "shake the public's trust." Chief Constable Fiona Wilson s...

British Columbia Premier David Eby is defending his approach to the government's record budget deficit, comparing it to buying a home for a family's future. The premier gave the stump-like speech on government spending on Friday at the site of the near...

VANCOUVER - In the eyes of the B.C. Supreme Court, the Gallery Show Lounge Strip club in south Vancouver would "present a clear danger" to the public if its liquor licence were restored and it reopened. The club has been on the police radar for years, ...

TORONTO - A Canadian union wants federal scrutiny of a takeover of one of the world's biggest video game makers by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and a private equity firm owned by U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law. The Communications Work...

MAPLE RIDGE - Police in British Columbia have arrested 11 people in connection with an illegal gambling house in Metro Vancouver. Investigators say they began looking into the suspected gaming operation in Maple Ridge last November. The investigation r...

VICTORIA - British Columbia is giving midwives the ability to prescribe abortion pill Mifegymiso and other drugs, in an expansion of their scope of practice. The province says the changes will make it easier for people to access reproductive health ser...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government is investing up to $1 million on field-testing new technology from a Vancouver company that aims to both predict and prevent lightning that may trigger wildfires. Skyward Wildfire Technologies says it release...

VICTORIA - The school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., where students were killed in a mass shooting in February will be torn down and rebuilt on a new site. Premier David Eby said Thursday that the decision by the local school board came after it consulted sur...

VICTORIA - Two former B.C. Conservatives now sitting as Independents say they voted with their consciences when they helped the governing NDP shut down debate on changes to freedom of information rules in a 3 a.m. vote. Ex-colleagues of Amelia Boultbee...

SURREY - A foreign national with no status in Canada has been arrested in Surrey, B.C., over a shooting last month that's believed to be linked to extortion. Surrey police say the Canada Border Services Agency has been told about the arrest of 27-year-...

CHILLIWACK - A spokesperson for the Chilliwack RCMP detachment says police are actively investigating the defacement of a downtown Indigenous mural and urge anyone with tips to contact them. According to a statement from Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Corporal Carmen Kiener, police are treating the incident seriously due...

Bell Canada's parent company has upped its revenue target for its growing AI business by a third as it moves forward with plans to build a cluster of data centres, while assuring it will maintain "responsible usage" of the technology. BCE Inc. chief ex...

NEW WESTMINSTER - Metro Vancouver has been fined about $170,000 after a worker was seriously injured during "high-risk violations" while working on a water main in New Westminster two years ago. WorkSafeBC says in a news release that it issued the pena...

LIONS BAY - Two hikers have been rescued after a night in the mountains north of Metro Vancouver, with weather hampering operations to save them. Lions Bay Search and Rescue says the two young men were trying to complete the Howe Sound Crest Trail be...

ABBOTSFORD - Police in Abbotsford are appealing to the public for any tips in connection with a missing 49-year-old man who was last seen just over a week ago. AbbyPD spokesperson Sgt. Paul Walker says Emin Hodzic was last seen on foot on Tuesday, April 28 near McCallum Road and Highway 1. Hodzic is described as a Cauc...

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver say a man has been killed in a stabbing that's being classified as the city's fourth homicide this year. Vancouver police say the attack happened at around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday in an area near East Hastings and Columbia s...

VANCOUVER - A prosecutor in the murder trial of a man who stabbed a Vancouver Starbucks patron to death says the evidence doesn't establish that the suspect had stopped taking his schizophrenia medication months earlier, as he had testified. Daniel Pru...

VANCOUVER - Canada's Fisheries Department says a grey whale that was hit at high speed by a Sea-Doo in front of a horrified Vancouver crowd on Monday appeared in "good condition" the next day. The Fisheries Department says in an update that while asse...

OTTAWA - OpenAI failed to respect Canadian privacy laws when training its artificial intelligence-powered ChatGPT chatbot, federal and provincial watchdogs have found. The conclusion came Wednesday in a report on a joint investigation by federal privac...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's River Forecast Centre has upgraded a high streamflow advisory to a flood watch in the northwest of the province due to recent heat accelerating snowmelt. The centre says in a notice that the flood watch is active for the B...

Two years ago, Guy Felicella received a proclamation from Mayor Ken Sim, naming a day in his honour for his work on harm reduction and recovery. Now the harm reduction advocate wants to return the proclamation of May 29, 2024 as "Guy Felicella Day," af...

In November, we launched Look West, our targeted plan to grow the economy and create good jobs for people in B.C. I know that people and businesses throughout the province are feeling challenged right now as global conflicts and uncertainty continue to impact resource supply chains worldwide. That's why last week, Pre...

VANCOUVER - The father of 12-year-old Maya Gebala, who was gravely injured in the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., mass shootings, says surgery to repair her damaged skull has been a success. David Gebala says in a Facebook post that Maya underwent a cranioplasty ...