An out-of-control wildfire burning near the community of Boston Bar, B.C., has triggered an evacuation order and an accompanying alert. Officials have declared a local state of emergency and say residents in North Bend, Electoral Area A, are being told...

VICTORIA - Police in Victoria say they have arrested two people following an assault with a weapon during an incident that injured three individuals Victoria Police Department says in a statement that three people sustained non-life-threatening injuri...

RICHMOND - The heartbroken girlfriend of a young charter boat captain feared drowned in a deadly sinking in B.C. waters last Sunday says she was aboard the vessel two days earlier when a broken door swung open and water flooded in. Chen Ming, 23, was i...

SUNSHINE COAST - Police in British Columbia are asking for the public's help after a missing person's vehicle was abandoned on a BC Ferries vessel. RCMP say Joyelle Goldbard's orange Subaru was found unclaimed on the 2:35 p.m. ferry sailing on Thursday...

BOSTON BAR - The British Columbia Wildfire Service says it's helping the Boston Bar Fire Department as a blaze burns close to the community in the southern Interior. The fire is about six hectares in size and is burning out of control west of the Fras...

Alberta's Opposition NDP leader says Premier Danielle Smith's plan for a new pipeline has his support, but he's calling on her to be honest about how much taxpayers could be on the hook for it. Naheed Nenshi also says public financing for the pipeline ...

Community coroners in British Columbia have been given a 55 per cent pay boost as the BC Coroners Service looks to fill vacancies in dozens of communities across the province. The wage increase to $49.77 an hour for community coroners came into effect...

British Columbia's NDP government has more breathing room with a two-seat majority in the legislature after adding member Amelia Boultbee, who has openly criticized her former Conservative party and its new leader over what she sees as a swing toward "...

CALGARY - Alberta's pitch to the major projects office for a new oil pipeline to the West Coast is being billed as a public-private partnership, though its current structure skews almost entirely toward the public end of the spectrum. Ninety per cent ...

OTTAWA - Environmental groups say they wanted to see a more concrete commitment to decarbonization in the proposal put forward for a pipeline to the B.C. coast backed by the Alberta and federal governments. Representatives from both the Pembina Institu...

Prime Minister Mark Carney and British Columbia Premier David Eby have signed a "prosperity agreement" they say will help unlock billions of dollars in new investment. The deal includes a promise by the federal government to not change the northern oil...

RICHMOND - British Columbia search crews say conditions have been challenging in the hunt for a charter fishing boat that sank in the Strait of Georgia, leaving six missing and presumed drowned. Richmond RCMP say in a statement that conditions have mad...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia Premier David Eby says a joint federal-provincial plan to convert unsold condominiums into affordable housing would be like buying something "on liquidation." Eby and Prime Minister Mark Carney were in Vancouver Thursday an...

A social media post shared a screenshot of a satellite map that shows Quebec experiencing fewer wildfires than the rest of Canada, and suggested it was because the province banned the use of glyphosate-based weed killers in 2001. Experts who study wild...

VANCOUVER - An economic deal between Canada and British Columbia that was unveiled in Vancouver on Thursday describes commitments that Prime Minister Mark Carney says will help unlock more than $200 billion in new investment. Here are some key points o...

VANCOUVER - Nurses in British Columbia started targeted job action at work sites across the province on Thursday in an effort to push to government to improve its offer to union members, the British Columbia Nurses' Union said. Nurses stopped working ...

CALGARY - The Alberta government has postponed a planned update on its planned million-barrel-a-day oil pipeline to the West Coast. A news conference with Premier Danielle Smith had been scheduled for this morning, but it has been delayed to later in t...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced Thursday that her government has a route - and builders - for a new pipeline to the B.C. coast, just hours after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a deal with B.C. to make it possible. Smith and Carney stood ...

A British Columbia journalist who was targeted for months by followers of Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui says he's feeling "tremendous relief" after Guo was sentenced to 30 years in a U.S. jail for fraud. Benson Gao, also known as Gao Bingchen, says he was ...

One of Canada's largest telecommunications companies has officially transitioned to new leadership after more than 25 years, with Victor Dodig succeeding Darren Entwistle as president and CEO of Telus as of Wednesday. Dodig stepped down as chief execut...

VICTORIA - New B.C. Conservative leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay has kept former rival Peter Milobar and his supporters in her shadow cabinet, a day after installing a caucus leadership team that skewed toward her loyalists. Milobar, who stood against Findl...

VICTORIA - Police in Victoria say they arrested and charged two men in connection with a case of trafficking and sexual assault of a woman. Jamie McRae, the department's deputy chief, said during a news conference at police headquarters on Tuesday that...

PEMBERTON - A glacier lake has burst and is sending floodwaters towards a community northeast of Pemberton, B.C. The melting glacier triggered an evacuation order for two dozen homes last week over the concern the lake would burst. The homes are in th...

Brian Angus and Dorothy Stauffer set out from Vancouver's Coal Harbour on Sunday morning to embark on their annual months-long sailing trip aboard their 33-foot yacht Malaika. But within hours they were undertaking a harrowing rescue of survivors from ...

An attempt by a Richmond, B.C., company to reopen a landmark Aboriginal title case after the original trial lasted more than 500 days is an "abuse of process for relitigation" and will not be allowed, a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled this week. The cou...

FREDERICTON - Natalie Lipschultz, who was fired from her job six and a half years ago while battling cancer, is applauding what she says are long-overdue safeguards now in place across the country designed to prevent other Canadians from experiencing t...

VANCOUVER - A man has been charged with assault with a weapon after he allegedly hit a woman on the head with a piece of wood about the size of a baseball bat at a beach in Vancouver. Police say they were called to Kitsilano Beach on Sunday after witne...

VICTORIA - New B.C. Conservative leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay has filled several roles on her leadership team with loyalists. Findlay, who currently does not hold a seat in the legislature, has appointed Chilliwack-area MLA Heather Maahs as interim leade...