NEW WESTMINSTER - A woman who pleaded guilty to multiple charges in a child sex trafficking case in British Columbia has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. The B.C. Prosecution Service says Jennifer Stephens has also been ordered to provide a DNA sa...

The federal budget handed down on Thursday includes funding pledges that are expected to benefit British Columbia. Here's a look at some of them. FORESTRY BOOST The budget is proposing $6.5 billion in funding to support the forestry sector nationally o...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's incoming Conservative premier Lorne Doerkson is all-in on the budget tabled by Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government, praising billions of dollars in financial support for the struggling forestry sector. Doerkson...

SURREY - A Surrey, B.C., security guard is in serious condition after being stabbed multiple times outside an amusement centre. Police say they were called to the parking lot of the Central City Fun Park on 124 Street at 3:38 a.m. Thursday. They say a ...

Deadly bear attacks in British Columbia are rare, but there have been at least 10 fatalities since the 1990s, including this week's attack that claimed the lives of a mother and daughter in Bella Coola. 1994 Four-year-old Ian Dunbar is killed in a bea...

MACKENZIE - Communications problems along Highway 39, which may have complicated the emergency response to a bus crash that injured 20 on Wednesday, are a familiar issue for northern residents, the provincial legislator for Mackenzie, B.C., said. Kiel ...

BELLA COOLA - The Nuxalk Nation in Bella Coola, B.C., said additional Mounties have been brought into the region to escort students to school after a fatal bear attack killed a mother and daughter in the community. It said in a social media post that p...

It may be almost two weeks since British Columbia's election resulted in a landslide win for the B.C. Conservatives, but it's still a tense time for a handful of candidates. New Democrat legislator Stephanie Higginson will be among those watching clos...

PORT ALBERNI - A potent storm is set to lash British Columbia's coast, part of an atmospheric river system, with up to 120 millimetres of rain forecasted in some areas. Environment Canada has issued a yellow-level rainfall warning for western, northern...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's incoming premier says he doesn't see a quick end to the trade war with the United States despite significant election losses by Republicans under President Donald Trump. Lorne Doerkson made the comments Wednesday after the...

LADNER - Portions of a major Metro Vancouver highway has been shut down after a tractor-trailer struck an overpass, causing significant damage. The BC Highway Patrol says in a statement that the crash happened at about 10:40 a.m. on Highway 99 at Ladne...

VICTORIA - A glut of empty condos in British Columbia should not be seen as evidence that the market is working, said a housing expert who warned against winding back policies of the outgoing NDP government designed to tame prices and rent. Alexandra F...

RICHMOND - The remains of a soldier killed in a grass fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta last month have returned to British Columbia, with dozens of police officers, firefighters and others gathering to pay their respects. A motorcade ...

Police say 20 people were hurt when a shuttle bus chartered by a contractor for a data centre company went off a highway near Mackenzie, B.C., resulting in two hospitals declaring Code Orange events as patients were transported in a fleet of air and gr...

PRINCE ALBERT - Pte. Shaun Farrell was remembered Wednesday as a hard-headed soldier, branded with a tattoo reading "Comfort Kills Dreams" and with a love for the hard guitar-riffing Ram Jam rock anthem "Black Betty." Hundreds of Canadian military pers...

BURNABY - SkyTrain service in Metro Vancouver was disrupted Wednesday morning after a fire near a station in Burnaby, B.C. TransLink said in a release that the fire happened near the Gilmore station, resulting in the shutdown of the station as well as ...

The brother of a woman who was killed along with her daughter in a suspected grizzly bear attack in Bella Coola, B.C., says she was "remarkable" and an inspiration to her siblings. Matthew Balcarras said on Wednesday that Jenny Balcarras was "incredibl...

VANCOUVER - The home on Windsor Street in East Vancouver has admittedly seen better days. Its yard is overgrown, the weathered shingles are barely hanging on in places, and the back stairs have completely disintegrated. But with an official BC Assessm...

POWELL RIVER - Western Forest Products and the Tla'amin Nation say they have completed a deal that transfers ownership of a major forestry operation to the First Nation. A joint statement says the Tla'amin forestry arm has acquired a 100 per cent owner...

VICTORIA - The Conservative Party of B.C. raised almost three times the donations as the New Democrats during the third quarter of 2026, despite experiencing internal turmoil at the time. This fundraising figure for the party of premier-designate Lorn...

A wildlife rescue group says a great blue heron has made a full recovery after being hit by a plane that was lifting off at Vancouver's airport. The Wildlife Rescue Association of BC's advancement director Marina Schwarz said the heron suffered a suspe...

Two people are dead after a suspected grizzly bear attack near Bella Coola, B.C., a year after an attack on a group of schoolchildren in the same community. An initial statement from the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service on Tuesday said the...

TUMBLER RIDGE - Maya Gebala, who was badly injured during the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has received the first international award from a U.S.-based charity that was formed in the aftermath of another school shooting. The Youth Peace and Ju...

The owners of a British Columbia farm where hundreds of ostriches were killed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is suing the government and police, claiming the loss of a business with revenue it projected at $200 million. The lawsuit by Universal...

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver are issuing a warning to youth riding electric dirt bikes on city streets after multiple families on Halloween night reported a group of two dozen riders driving dangerously in their neighbourhood. Police say Halloween i...

Out-going British Columbia Attorney General Niki Sharma says governments have to keep up the fight to protect people from online harms if social media companies like X don't take on their own corporate responsibility. B.C.'s Civil Resolution Tribunal ...

SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating a shooting where a man has been critically injured. Police were called at 9:42 p.m. Monday to the 9000 block of Snowdon Place, where officers say they found signs of injury along with evidence consist...

VANCOUVER - The man accused of killing 11 people in a vehicle-ramming attack at the Lapu Lapu Day festival in Vancouver has pleaded not guilty to all 42 charges he faces. Damienne Darby, communications council with the BC Prosecution Service, said Adam...