VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver say a man has been killed in a stabbing that's being classified as the city's fourth homicide this year. Vancouver police say the attack happened at around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday in an area near East Hastings and Columbia s...

VANCOUVER - A prosecutor in the murder trial of a man who stabbed a Vancouver Starbucks patron to death says the evidence doesn't establish that the suspect had stopped taking his schizophrenia medication months earlier, as he had testified. Daniel Pru...

VANCOUVER - Canada's Fisheries Department says a grey whale that was hit at high speed by a Sea-Doo in front of a horrified Vancouver crowd on Monday appeared in "good condition" the next day. The Fisheries Department says in an update that while asse...

OTTAWA - OpenAI failed to respect Canadian privacy laws when training its artificial intelligence-powered ChatGPT chatbot, federal and provincial watchdogs have found. The conclusion came Wednesday in a report on a joint investigation by federal privac...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's River Forecast Centre has upgraded a high streamflow advisory to a flood watch in the northwest of the province due to recent heat accelerating snowmelt. The centre says in a notice that the flood watch is active for the B...

Two years ago, Guy Felicella received a proclamation from Mayor Ken Sim, naming a day in his honour for his work on harm reduction and recovery. Now the harm reduction advocate wants to return the proclamation of May 29, 2024 as "Guy Felicella Day," af...

VANCOUVER - The father of 12-year-old Maya Gebala, who was gravely injured in the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., mass shootings, says surgery to repair her damaged skull has been a success. David Gebala says in a Facebook post that Maya underwent a cranioplasty ...

When millions of tonnes of rock fell one kilometre into an Alaskan fiord last year, it set off one of the largest tsunamis ever recorded, a monstrous 481-metre wave higher than the tallest viewing platform of the CN Tower, a new study shows. Dan Shugar...

It's been just over a year since Keith Scott was found dead in a Victoria supportive housing building, and his ex-wife says their daughter still asks every day why the killer hasn't been brought to justice. "I don't have an answer for her," said Cassi...

KAMLOOPS - Police say one person has been killed in a shooting in the British Columbia Interior city of Kamloops. Mounties have not released any information on the circumstances surrounding the shooting, only noting that the case is being investigated ...

VANCOUVER - The judge in the murder trial of a man who stabbed a Vancouver café patron to death has been presented with two views of the suspect - as someone unable to understand the consequences of his actions due to an "unmedicated psychotic state," ...

VICTORIA - Premier David Eby says neither the RCMP nor Canada's spy agency have ever raised concerns about his cabinet or caucus, after Vancouver's ex-mayor said a minister was being investigated for collaborating with China's government. Eby said Tues...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has vowed to block the opening of a planned overdose prevention site in the city's downtown, promising to "use all tools available" in trying to do so. Sim, whose ABC party holds seven of the 11 seats in Vancouver's ...

SURREY - Homicide investigators say a deadly daylight shooting at a business in Surrey, B.C., on Monday afternoon is believed to have been a "targeted incident." The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says a man in his 30s is dead after being shot ...

VANCOUVER - Warm weather across British Columbia has driven electricity demand to the highest level ever seen in May. BC Hydro says residents using fans and air conditioners pushed demand to about 7,600 megawatts. The record demand comes as temperature...

SURREY - An Alberta man has been charged with second-degree murder after an 18-year-old woman and a 33-year-old man were found dead inside a Langley, B.C., home last week. Homicide investigators say Cregg Lafferty-Tuccaro, also 33, has been arrested an...

QUESNEL - The B.C. Supreme Court has dismissed a defamation lawsuit launched by the wife of the mayor of Quesnel, B.C., against the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, after it denounced her for distributing a book questioning "atrocities" in residential scho...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby said he doesn't understand why the federal government continues to push a new oil pipeline from Alberta, while it fails to include B.C.'s softwood lumber industry in its latest round of tariff relief. He sa...

SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., are taking the rare step of releasing an image of a foreign national who has been removed from Canada as it investigates extortion violence that has plagued the city. The photo is of 20-year-old Prabhjot Singh, who was...

RICHMOND - The Vancouver Airport Authority says a person has been taken into custody after climbing a fence and gaining access to the airport's secure area near the terminal. The authority says it's now reviewing security measures with the RCMP, who ea...

VICTORIA - Much of southern British Columbia spent the last few days basking in the sun in what an Environment Canada meteorologist says is "exceptional" for this time of year. The record-setting heat has set off cautions for rapid snow melt and possi...

Scientists battling a deadly infection that has killed millions of bats in North America say the tiny creatures don't care about borders, as they flit between British Columbia and Washington state. But geopolitical realities now pose a potential threat...

DELTA - Police in Delta, B.C., say one person is dead after a crash involving two vehicles in a residential area on Saturday. They say one driver was pronounced dead at the scene, while several other occupants were taken to hospital with serious injuri...

BURNABY - Police in Burnaby, B.C., say two children have been hospitalized with serious injuries after a crash on Saturday. A statement from Burnaby RCMP describes the 11-year-old boy and nine-year-old girl as pedestrians, while BC Emergency Health Ser...

VANCOUVER - The long-anticipated public hearing into the police-involved death of Myles Gray in 2015 is being delayed again to give one of the seven Vancouver officers under investigation time to find a new lawyer. The recent appointment of lawyer Scot...

LANGLEY - As he curls up on a couch beside his owner, it's easy to forget Gary the cat is in fact Gary the serval, a wild predator native to Africa. The 10-year-old serval was raised as a pet by a couple who later divorced, with Gary ending up at Wild...

VICTORIA - Politicians in B.C.'s legislature say they are looking into whether they can close a loophole that has allowed a member to avoid a censure motion after she used a slogan associated with Nazi Germany. Independent MLA Tara Armstrong last month...

BURNABY - Plans for a hospital expansion in Burnaby, B.C., are not dead, despite the provincial government announcing this week that the construction contract had been cancelled, Premier David Eby said on Friday. Eby said Phase 2 of the Burnaby Hospi...