Three glaciers in British Columbia's southwest could "disappear completely" within decades in what a researcher says is the result of years of inaction on climate change. A new study from Simon Fraser University published in the journal Annals of Glac...

VICTORIA - A former British Columbia Conservative executive who helped John Rustad orchestrate the rise of the party from obscurity is honouring its former leader as a trailblazer who transformed the province's political scene. Former Conservative exec...

WEST KELOWNA - Police say alcohol is believed to be a factor in two separate vehicle crashes in the B.C. Interior where three people have been killed. The first crash happened Saturday near Osoyoos as police received a call of a pickup truck that went...

The wildfire season in B.C. has burned far less area than usual, just 1,350 square kilometres, only about a quarter of the 20-year average. But it has been one of the most devastating seasons on record for property destruction, with more than 500 homes...

MAPLE RIDGE - New Democrat Leader David Eby says some members of the Conservative Opposition have a vision to make British Columbia a protectorate of the United States, and its leader isn't doing enough to rein them in. Eby says interim B.C. Conservat...

SUMMERLAND - Joel Patan says his "life is ashes" now, as he sifts the ruins of his home that was incinerated last month, along with most structures in the small community of Faulder outside Summerland, B.C. "It's just gut-wrenching," he said. Patan, wh...

Parties are drawing up their candidate lists ahead of British Columbia's snap election on Oct. 24. Here's a look at some of the latest developments. WHO'S IN Four NDP cabinet members - Mike Farnworth, Adrian Dix, Bowinn Ma and Josie Osborne - said Wedn...

BURNABY - Two people have been killed in a head-on crash on Highway 1 in Burnaby, B.C., after police say the driver of a pickup drove in the wrong direction and collided with another vehicle. The BC Highway Patrol says the crash happened just after mid...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver police say they are investigating the city's sixth homicide this year. Officers were called to CRAB Park in the city's Downtown Eastside early Wednesday after someone reported a man in medical distress. The man was treated by emer...

EDMONTON - A viral post on the social media platform X this week shared a claim that mail-in voting for Alberta's Oct. 19 referendum is "open to anybody" without verification of whether applicants live in the province. Other social media users posted s...

EDMONTON - A viral post this week on the social media platform X shared a claim that mail-in voting for Alberta's Oct. 19 referendum is "open to anybody" without verification of whether applicants live in the province. Other social media users posted s...

Steven Shearer, the Vancouver artist whose work spans painted portraits, photo collage and online images of people sleeping, has won one of Canada's top art prizes. Shearer made a rare public appearance Wednesday to accept the $100,000 Audain Prize fo...

VANCOUVER - Both sides of British Columbia politics are racing to redefine the B.C. Conservatives as the province goes to the polls on Oct. 24 in the wake of Kerry-Lynne Findlay's divisive leadership of the Opposition party. NDP Leader David Eby says t...

SURREY - A 45-year-old man has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of another man in Surrey, B.C., in August 2023. Surrey police say Paul John Martin was convicted Friday in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster, and the conviction ...

Here's a look back at the week that reshaped the political landscape of British Columbia, leading up to Tuesday's election call by NDP Leader David Eby. Wednesday Sept. 16: Eby addresses early election speculation, saying he told his party's legislato...

DELTA - Police have released the identity of a woman whose body was found during a fire in a field in Delta, B.C., earlier this year. Police in Delta say the woman was 34-year-old Natasha Clifton, a resident of nearby Richmond, in Metro Vancouver. The...

GOLDEN, B.C. - A town in southeastern British Columbia says it won't adopt the province's newly created time zone and will continue following Mountain time. The Town of Golden earlier announced it would turn its clocks back an hour on Nov. 1 to join mo...

The British Columbia Conservatives moved Wednesday to head off suggestions that interim leader Lorne Doerkson would not remain premier if he wins the Oct. 24 election, as it announced former leader John Rustad would not be among its candidates. A state...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia voters are heading to the polls in a snap election set for Oct. 24, a week after municipal elections take place across the province. The election comes less than two years into NDP Leader David Eby's mandate and follows wee...

Voters will be go to the polls to elect the next provincial government in late October.Premier David Eby announced Tuesday he had spoken to the Lieutenant Governor who agreed to dissolve the legislature and call a provincial election for Oct. 24.Eby claims the election is being spurred on by the ongoing tensions create...

British Columbians are going to the polls about two years ahead of schedule, after NDP Leader David Eby called an early election to be held on Oct. 24. Here's a look at the party leaders in a political landscape that is very different from the one that...

OTTAWA - The Canadian government is offering Indigenous groups a collective 15 per cent ownership stake in the Trans Mountain pipeline through a low-cost loan. In a letter to a First Nation along the pipeline's path and seen by The Canadian Press, a f...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's political scene is undergoing breakneck restructuring ahead of an Oct. 24 snap election that NDP Leader David Eby called on Tuesday, framing it as necessary to respond to the threat posed by U.S. President Donald Trump and...

VANCOUVER - The Transportation Safety Board says a broken rotor blade caused an engine fire that forced a WestJet aircraft to make an emergency landing at the airport in Kelowna, B.C. A safety board report released Tuesday describes the incident involv...

BC Wildfire Service says a new fire is burning out of control on southern Vancouver Island. The service says in a social media post that crews are responding to the Mount Jack wildfire, which is burning about four kilometres west of Sooke River and so...

VICTORIA - B.C. Premier David Eby has arrived at Government House in Victoria, amid expectations he will call a snap election. The premier, who is less than two years into his mandate, has called reporters to the official residence of Lt.-Gov. Wendy Co...

OTTAWA - The federal government has approved expansion of the Tilbury LNG facility in Delta, B.C., saying potential adverse effects are justified by the project's benefits. Monday's approval under the "one project, one review" principle came immediatel...

PENTICTON - Police say they are continuing to work with wildfire personnel and others on a multi-agency investigation into the origin of the Bald Range fire, which destroyed or damaged about 150 properties in British Columbia's south Okanagan last mont...