Firefighters battling a wildfire near Lytton, B.C., say cooler temperatures and light winds helped overnight but that fire activity could increase throughout the day as temperatures climb. An update posted online Sunday by the BC Wildfire Service says...

OTTAWA - From a massive ad blitz featuring Canadian broadcast icon Peter Mansbridge to a cabinet minister calling on shipbuilders to cough up a car plant, the brief race to replace Canada's aging submarine fleet turned heads in more ways than one. The ...

OTTAWA - Events were held across the country on Sunday to mark the 30th National Indigenous Peoples' Day, which honours the culture, histories and contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. The day coincides with the summer solstice - the ...

VICTORIA - Muslim groups and Culture Minister Marc Miller are decrying an alleged attack on an imam of a mosque in Victoria on Thursday night. Miller said in a tweet that the reported assault is "appalling and vile" and that such violence and Islamopho...

Two carved cedar totems now flank either side of the Canadian end of the Chilkoot Trail, a permanent reminder that the route best known as the path to the Yukon gold fields during the 1890s gold rush has a history that stretches back much further. The ...

Judith Urquhart said she's doing what she has to do to remain focused and prepare for the possibility that a wildfire could force her to evacuate, five years after her home was destroyed by a different blaze. Urquhart and her husband rebuilt their home...

LANGLEY - The City of Langley says an ammonia gas leak at an ice rink that triggered a shelter-in-place order has not resulted in any injuries. The city says the order was lifted early Friday afternoon after the leak at Langley Twin Rinks. It says in...

PRINCE GEORGE - A tornado watch issued Friday for a section of central B.C. that includes Prince George has ended. Environment Canada had said conditions were ripe for severe thunderstorms that could produce tornadoes. It also warned of high winds, pin...

VANCOUVER - The operator of the Red Chris gold and copper mine in northwestern B.C. says it is applying safety lessons learned from a collapse last year that trapped three workers to a planned expansion of underground operations. The British Columbia g...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has approved an amended environment assessment certificate for block-caving at the Red Chris Mine, the same site where three workers were trapped last July. The copper and gold mine in northwestern B.C. is al...

VANCOUVER - The federal and British Columbia governments have announced billions of dollars in combined investments to spur housing development and update infrastructure, including building a new high school in Tumbler Ridge, the site of a mass shootin...

OTTAWA - The immigration department says it's working "as quickly as possible" to resolve questions about citizenship by descent claims - even as some claimants say they did everything Ottawa asked them to do. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Cana...

WEST KELOWNA - Emergency officials in West Kelowna, B.C., say an evacuation alert covering 742 homes has been lifted and the community is no longer under a local state of emergency. Central Okanagan Emergency Management says in an update that it was a...

OTTAWA - A man convicted of arson and firing a gun at Indo-Canadian pop star AP Dhillon's British Columbia home in 2024 has been ordered deported from Canada. The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada confirms that Abjeet Singh Kingra was found inadm...

OTTAWA - Members of Parliament have wrapped up a spring sitting in the House of Commons that stretched over six months and saw the Liberals use their new majority powers to limit debate and push through contentious legislation. Prime Minister Mark Carn...

QUÉBEC - Montreal's business community is coming together to sweeten the pot in the city's bid to host a multinational defence bank, offering several floors in a planned downtown tower for the highly sought-after headquarters. A consortium of three com...

PORT HARDY - Canada's Transportation Safety Board is urging seaplane pilots to be aware of risks when landing on calm and glassy water after a crash in British Columbia two years ago that killed one passenger. The board says in its investigation report...

VICTORIA - Police on Vancouver Island say they have arrested three young people in connection with a fire that destroyed a historic railcar. RCMP in Port Alberni say they made the arrests after a witness saw three people running from the scene of the f...

ATLIN - A First Nation in northwestern British Columbia has banished five people from its territory for three years. The Taku River Tlingit First Nation says in a statement on Facebook that its council issued the banishment order after receiving "signi...

After years of planning, FIFA World Cup 2026™ has officially kicked off, with events happening all throughout B.C.! It is an incredible opportunity to bring people together from around the world to celebrate and watch incredible athletes play the people's game right here in B.C.British Columbia is known for its...

Bell Canada has signed an artificial intelligence infrastructure deal with Cohere that will see the AI firm operate its large language models through Bell AI Fabric, with support from two other companies. Under the agreement, Bell will provide data cen...

The B.C. government has launched an upgrade on the provincial hydro system in an effort to increase the power supply by another seven per cent. Energy Minister Adrian Dix announced the improvements on Wednesday, two days after saying the government was...

OTTAWA - Canada will take a harder stance on intimate partner violence after a Conservative MP's private member's bill became law Wednesday. The Criminal Code will soon be updated to allow the killer of an intimate partner to be charged with first-degr...

CULTUS LAKE - A safety regulator has found "electrical non-compliances" at a British Columbia waterpark were a group of 12 schoolchildren suffered burns. Technical Safety BC, which is leading the investigation into what went wrong at Cultus Lake Waterp...

OTTAWA - A new poll released Wednesday suggests 90 per cent of people in B.C. support local water restrictions. Leger surveyed 1,512 Canadians between June 12 and June 15, including 206 residents of British Columbia. The poll cannot be assigned a margi...

VICTORIA - B.C. has turned up access to hearing aids. The provincial government says in a statement that adults with mild to moderate hearing loss can now buy over-the-counter hearing aids without a prescription. It says B.C. becomes the first province...

KAMLOOPS - West Kelowna fire chief Jason Broland says that for better or worse, residents and emergency responders of the community in British Columbia's Okanagan region now have a "deep understanding" of wildfire. Those instincts were put to the test ...

VANCOUVER - Former U.S. Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem has joined B.C. mineral exploration company NovaRed Mining Inc. in a strategic advisory role. The company says Noem, who is special envoy to the Shield of the Americas, will support NovaRe...