VICTORIA - Police in Surrey, B.C., say shots fired at a residence and two vehicle fires Sunday morning are connected, but it is not clear whether they involve extortion. A statement from the Surrey Police Service says officers responded to a vehicle ...

VICTORIA - Police in British Columbia say they are investigating a fatal vehicle collision near a well-known bridge across the Fraser River. A statement from Ridge Meadows RCMP serving the area around Maple Ridge, B.C. says officers responded to a sin...

VICTORIA - Police in Surrey, B.C. say that the nine-year-old child involved in a vehicle collision Friday afternoon has died. Surrey Police Service says in a statement released Sunday morning that the child died following a collision with what police s...

VICTORIA - The interim leader of the Conservative Party of B.C. says Premier David Eby must immediately recall the legislature to repeal the province's Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples Act and related legislation. Trevor Halford says...

British Columbia's logging agency has changed a policy that conserved remnant old-growth forest in the province's northwest, with a government briefing note showing a plan to open those areas for harvesting has been approved. The note, obtained by The ...

MONTREAL - First Nations, Inuit and Métis leaders welcomed back dozens of Indigenous artifacts released from the Vatican collection at Montreal's airport Saturday. The 62 items will ultimately be returned to their communities of origin as an act of fur...

VICTORIA - Police in British Columbia say four people suffered injuries, when fighting erupted on a party bus early Saturday morning. A statement from Surrey Police Service says that the driver of the bus reported several people fighting on the vehicl...

SURREY - A nine-year-old child was taken to hospital in life-threatening condition after being hit by a vehicle in a Surrey, B.C., neighbourhood. A statement from police says they were called to the crash near 134th Street and 81st Avenue in Newton on ...

Conservation officers in British Columbia are no longer actively trying to capture the grizzly bear responsible for last month's "extraordinary attack" on a group of schoolchildren and teachers that left four with severe injuries. A statement from the ...

SURREY - First Nations are celebrating a British Columbia Court of Appeal ruling which found the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the provincial mineral claims regime are "inconsistent." The appeal ruling says the prov...

SURREY - A 41-year-old man has been arrested in a yearlong child exploitation investigation by police in Surrey, B.C. Police say Kevin Belcourt was arrested on Thursday and is now facing multiple charges, including possession and distributing child ex...

The civilian director of British Columbia's police watchdog says she doesn't believe Vancouver officers committed an offence when they shot a naked man with multiple beanbags and he died. Jessica Berglund's report says police were called in August 202...

VANCOUVER - Brock Eurchuk said he felt "completely cut adrift" by British Columbia's health care system when trying to deal with health troubles of their 16-year-old son, Elliot. The teenager died from an overdose in 2018. "Elliot was in care in a hos...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver Police are warning of a blessing scheme that targets the city's Chinese community where one woman lost $120,000. Police say there were two separate cases involving the scam last month, with one on Nov. 19 where three suspects app...

ABBOTSFORD - A pedestrian has been killed in a crash involving a pickup truck in Abbotsford, B.C., which police say may be partly due to poor lighting conditions. Abbotsford police say the crash happened at around 5:30 Friday morning on McCallum Road ...

VERNON - Police say a British Columbia man has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of another man found dead in the province's Okanagan region two years ago. RCMP say Dale Christopher Lloyd Babiy is facing a second-degree murder charge a...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia judge says a man convicted in the notorious Surrey Six murder case is guilty of contempt of court for refusing to answer questions out of fear of violating the "inmate code" against co-operating with law enforcement. Cody...

Here's what people are saying about John Rustad and his resignation on Thursday as leader of the Conservative Party of B.C., which he took to the brink of power in last year's provincial election. "'I've made a huge change and difference in terms of po...

ABBOTSFORD - Police in Abbotsford, B.C., have launched a new program targeting people involved in planning or carrying out extortion-related violence, offering them an exit strategy. The department says the new intervention and exit program is designe...

SURREY - British Columbia's police watchdog agency says there are no reasonable grounds to believe officers committed an offence in the fatal shooting of a teenager in Surrey in February. The Independent Investigations Office says in a report that the ...

RICHMOND - Federal investigators say the use of fuel contaminated with water caused the failure of both engines in a plane that crashed on British Columbia's central coast. The Transportation Safety Board says in a report that the Dec. 18, 2023, crash ...

VANCOUVER - The death of an eight-year-old girl who fell from a Vancouver highrise building last month has been ruled an accident. Vancouver police say they have completed their investigation into the Nov. 11 fall, and criminality was determined not to...

VICTORIA - The Conservative Party of B.C. has released a statement from John Rustad saying he has resigned as leader. More coming. The Canadian Press

Joshua Wright says a yellow cedar tree he photographed last year was "incredible," the largest he'd ever seen in a decade of hiking around Vancouver Island. The monumental cedar stood in what was one of the few intact or nearly intact old-growth valley...

Conservation officers in British Columbia say they've captured four more grizzly bears that are being tested to determine if they were involved in an attack on a school group last month. The provincial conservation service said it an online post Wednes...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is looking for ways to help a pulp mill closing on Vancouver Island, Premier David Eby said Wednesday, but logging the province's old-growth forests for pulp is not an option. Eby was scheduled to meet Wednesd...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Director of Civil Forfeiture wants to seize three clubhouses from the Hells Angels, claiming properties in Surrey, Mission and Pitt Meadows were used by the motorcycle club to carry out unlawful activities, including drug...

VANCOUVER - The Better Business Bureau is warning B.C. residents to be cautious about falling in love with a puppy for sale this holiday season - it may not be real. The bureau says up to 80 per cent of online pet ads may be fake, as it places pet sale...