VICTORIA - Two newly elected members of British Columbia's Green Party will officially take their seats in the legislature following the first of three swearing-in ceremonies after last month's provincial election. The two Greens, lawyer Rob Botterell, representing Saanich North and the Islands, and geological engineer...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Two people have been charged after a Metro Vancouver Transit Police investigation turned up guns and illicit drugs, including fentanyl disguised as dog treats. Police say they began investigating an alleged drug trafficking operation based in Surrey, B.C., last spring, leading to the arrest of a...

SURREY, B.C. - The federal government is providing more than $9 million in funding for programs in British Columbia and Yukon to combat homelessness among veterans. The announcement, which comes a day after Remembrance Day, includes $4.7-million for the VRS Communities' Affordable Housing Program at Legion Veterans Vil...

British Columbia's provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says the teenager who has tested positive for bird flu is in critical condition and being treated at B.C. Children's Hospital. Henry says the teen, who has the first presumptive human case of bird flu contracted in Canada, was admitted to hospital late Frida...

VICTORIA - Ambassador to Germany and former British Columbia premier John Horgan has died at the age of 65, after his third bout with cancer. Horgan served as B.C.'s New Democrat premier for five years before stepping down in 2022, then was appointed ambassador last year. But in June, Horgan announced he was on leave a...

VANCOUVER - Environment Canada has issued a rainfall warning along northern sections of east Vancouver Island, with downpours expected to begin this evening as a "vigorous Pacific frontal system" moves over the coast. It says steady rain will begin in the afternoon, intensifying in the evening and is expected...

BURNABY, B.C. - Mounties in Burnaby say westbound lanes of Highway 1 near the city have been shut after a multi-vehicle crash. They say just before 3 a.m., officers responded to reports of a five-car collision on the highway, just east of the Kensington Avenue off-ramp. Police say five people were transported to hospit...

OTTAWA - Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon says he is intervening to end the work stoppages at ports in both British Columbia and Montreal. He says the negotiations have reached an impasse and he is directing the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order the resumption of all operations at the ports and move the talks ...

CHILLIWACK, B.C. - Mounties in Chilliwack, B.C., say a man was arrested after a short standoff with police along Highway 1 over the weekend. RCMP say officers attended a call for a single-vehicle incident on Sunday evening. They say a man was making threats and allegedly had a weapon. There was a brief standoff, but po...

Second World War veteran Percival Smith says he entered the British Merchant Navy as a teenager and came out as a man, going home to a family that he "couldn't even recognize" after the war Smith, 101, was among thousands who gathered in downtown Vancouver for the 100th Remembrance Day ceremony to be held at ...

A B.C. teen has a suspected case of H5N1 avian flu - the first known human to acquire the virus in Canada. The provincial government said on the weekend that B.C.'s chief veterinarian and public health teams are still investigating the source of exposure, but that it's "very likely" an animal or bird. Human-t...

VANCOUVER - The federal government is urging both sides in the British Columbia port dispute to return to the table after mediated talks broke off on Saturday, the first of three scheduled days. A statement issued by the office of federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon says both the port employers and the union repre...

Business groups are raising concerns about the broad effects of another round of labour disruptions in the transport sector as Canada faces shutdowns at its two biggest ports. Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters president Dennis Darby says the twin shutdowns in Vancouver and Montreal come at a challenging time as bu...

VANCOUVER - Environment Canada says heavy rain and winds could cause power outages on Vancouver Island as an "intense" storm system is set to hit the B.C. coast today. The weather agency has issued wind warnings for Haida Gwaii and parts of the coast, saying high winds topping 90 km/h could cause damage on ea...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced voters in Cloverdale-Langley City will pick their next member of Parliament on Dec. 16. The byelection in British Columbia will be a third test for the Liberals, who have already lost two long-held seats in the last several months. The successive byelection losses and di...

VANCOUVER - The union for locked-out port workers in British Columbia says the BC Maritime Employers Association cut off talks in less than an hour Saturday, refusing to budge on a final offer that the union has so far rejected. A statement from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Ship & Dock Foremen Lo...

A labour dispute continues to paralyze cargo shipping at British Columbia ports, and the union for locked-out workers is accusing employers of abruptly ending contract talks early. The International Longshore and Warehouse Local 514 says the BC Maritime Employers Association ended federally mandated talks with a mediat...

VANCOUVER - Former B.C. judge Randall (Bud) Wong remembers getting out of bed early one morning when he was five to greet his uncle at the train station in Vancouver at the end of the Second World War in 1945. His uncle Delbert Yen Chao was returning from India after years of service as an infantryman. "I remember...

VANCOUVER - Contract negotiations resume today in Vancouver in a labour dispute that has paralyzed container cargo shipping at British Columbia's ports since Monday. The BC Maritime Employers Association and International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 are scheduled to meet for the next three days in mediated ...

SURREY, B.C. - Police say an officer in Surrey, B.C., was stabbed during an arrest linked to a vehicle theft investigation. RCMP say officers working on a number of alleged motor vehicle thefts found a man and a woman connected to the case near a storage facility on Tuesday. Police say the pair was arrested, but a male...

KITIMAT, B.C. - British Columbia's River Forecast Centre has downgraded a flood warning for the province's north coast after what it describes as a strong atmospheric river event this week. A high streamflow advisory remains in effect for the region, including the Nass River and tributaries around Stewart, Terrace, Pri...

SOOKE, B.C. - Large sections of provincial parks in southern British Columbia remain closed after recent heavy rain and wind storms that caused flooding and damaged trails, campsites and roads. The Ministry of Environment says in a statement that parts of Juan de Fuca Provincial Park at Sooke, about 40 kilometres west ...

VANCOUVER - Employers and the union representing supervisors embroiled in a labour dispute that triggered a lockout at British Columbia's ports will attempt to reach a deal when talks restart this weekend. A spokesman from the office of federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon has confirmed the minister spoke with lead...

SOOKE, B.C. - Police say a man who was behind the wheel in a single-vehicle crash that killed a child on Vancouver Island has been sentenced to six years in prison. Mounties in Sooke, B.C., say 49-year-old Matthew Darlington pleaded guilty last month to operating a vehicle with methamphetamine in his blood, causing dea...

VANCOUVER - Telus Corp. says its net income attributable to common shares more than doubled during its third quarter despite the company adding fewer net new customers compared with the same time last year. The telecommunications company says it earned $280 million in its third quarter, up 105.9 per cent from the same ...

When police turned up at Melanie Hatton's home in Kelowna, B.C., in November 2021, she says they found her in the bathroom covered in blood, her then-husband Jeffrey Maclean was standing over her "in an aggressive manner." She describes a gruesome scene in a court filing, with blood from her head wound allege...

Mary Wilson was rapidly deteriorating with Alzheimer's when she received a medically assisted death in 2017. The Alberta woman was still cognitively aware and could carry complex conversations, but those chats might take an hour and a half instead of the usual 15 minutes, says her son, Ken Campbell. She had also begun ...

A review of information provided by provinces and territories shows more than 400 criminal cases have been halted across Canada since the start of last year because they had exceeded time limits on how long trials can take before violating an accused's Charter rights. Here's the breakdown of the numbers of recent cases...