GRANDE PRAIRIE - RCMP say the search for an Alberta boy has been expanded to northern B.C. and into the Northwest Territories or the Yukon. Mounties near the Alberta-B.C. boundary issued an Amber Alert late Wednesday for six-year-old Lanakai Morrison. ...

RICHMOND - Transport Canada has ordered the detention of a boat operated by a British Columbia fishing charter operation whose other vessel sank last month, leaving one person dead and six others missing and presumed drowned. The order, dated Thursday,...

VICTORIA - Ministers in British Columbia have approved plans to increase the height of the tailings storage facility at the Mount Polley copper and gold mine, the site of a catastrophic dam collapse more than a decade ago. The government says the heigh...

NORTH VANCOUVER - A British Columbia First Nation says it has launched a legal challenge against a plan by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority to dredge Burrard Inlet to make room for oil tankers with larger loads to operate. In a release, the Tsleil-W...

OTTAWA - Former B.C. Conservative leadership candidate Caroline Elliott is pushing back at Pierre Poilievre's recent jab about her campaign team, calling on the federal Conservative leader to work to bring people together. Elliott posted a video on soc...

VANCOUVER - Conner Macdonald says he's watched for the last eight years as the price of beef climbed "astronomically," as customers at the butcher shop where he works turned to chicken or pork, even on special occasions. "Even with Christmas and Thanks...

VICTORIA - British Columbia has recorded its lowest monthly number of suspected toxic drug deaths since before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, falling by more than half since their peak. The Ministry of Public Safety's preliminary data s...

SURREY - The BC Nurses' Union said Thursday that negotiations with the employer have broken down, and the group is calling on the provincial government to step in to help end their dispute that triggered job action last week. The union said in a state...

BOSTON BAR - Shayne Findlay, the owner of Blue Lake Resort, near Boston Bar, B.C., says "the wind was in charge" as a wildfire roared through the property on Tuesday night, destroying several buildings, including the home of the resort manager. "This f...

VANCOUVER - Court and immigration board records show that a British Columbia suspect indicted by U.S. authorities over alleged international organized crime was previously convicted of cross-border drug smuggling in the United States but was allowed to...

OTTAWA - The 2026 wildfire season has been manageable so far, largely because of significant amounts of rain across Western Canada, but federal officials cautioned Thursday the summer forecast is hotter and drier than normal in much of the country. "Mu...

FORT ST. JAMES - Three people have been rescued after a boat capsized on a lake in British Columbia's northern Interior. Police in Fort St. James say the accident happened Tuesday when the small boat capsized and sank in Stuart Lake's Sowchea Bay, loca...

COQUITLAM - The risk posed by a man found not criminally responsible for killing his three children is now "manageable" in the community with oversight, supervision and multiple conditions, the British Columbia Review Board says. The board decided last...

LOS ANGELES - An indictment released by U.S. authorities on Tuesday includes fresh details about the alleged involvement of Indian gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and others in the murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Two other indictments meanwhile...

OTTAWA - A document prepared for the federal artificial intelligence minister to use when pitching international investors on Canada's AI ecosystem identifies a massive proposed increase in Canada's data centre capacity. But spokespeople for the govern...

WEST VANCOUVER - RCMP in British Columbia say officers deployed in Metro Vancouver waters in support of the FIFA World Cup were diverted to help rescue 11 people, including several youth, from an overturned canoe on the weekend. Police say in a release...

OTTAWA - Richard Martel and Nate Erskine-Smith resigned their seats in the House of Commons on Tuesday, setting a clock ticking ahead of a pair of byelections in Quebec and Ontario - and they are not the only ones. Voters in a number of ridings across...

VANCOUVER - A 72-year-old man from the United States has died days after being hit by a cyclist in a Vancouver crosswalk. Police say the man died in hospital on Sunday after a couple crossing the road at West Cordova and Richards streets on June 29 we...

BOSTON BAR - Officials say strong winds through British Columbia's Fraser Canyon northeast of Vancouver could further fuel two wildfires that are burning out of control, forcing hundreds from their homes and cutting off power in the area. The BC Wildf...

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver say a man suspected in several violent confrontations in the Granville Street pedestrian zone set up for the FIFA World Cup has been arrested. Vancouver police say in a post on social media that a woman approached patrol...

RICHMOND - One of four people rescued after a fishing charter boat sank off Metro Vancouver has died in hospital, bringing the suspected death toll to seven. Police identified the vessel as Top Ocean operated by Top Vancouver Fishing Charter, and said ...

VICTORIA - A growing wildfire in British Columbia's Fraser Canyon has forced further evacuation alerts and the closure of a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway. The province's transportation website, Drive BC, says the Brunswick Creek fire has forced t...

OTTAWA - Liberal MPs shut down a Conservative attempt to have the House of Commons ethics committee investigate the government's plan to turn unsold condos into affordable housing in British Columbia. The Liberal government joined with the B.C. governm...

The federal government says it will invest up to $400 million into Teck Resources Ltd.'s critical minerals processing operations in southern B.C. as Ottawa looks to shore up supplies of metals used in the defence and green energy sectors. "We are faci...

Police in Canada, the United States and Europe say they have unravelled several Indian crime syndicates allegedly responsible for drug running, extortions, kidnappings, murders and the assassination of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columb...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's nurses union says it has received more than 1,400 reports of intimidation by employers against its members since job action started, prompting a complaint to the labour board. The development comes as the BC Nurses' Union...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government has hired lawyers in both B.C. and California to pursue legal action to hold OpenAI accountable for its part in the shooting that left eight victims dead in the northern community of Tumbler Ridge last Februa...

VICTORIA - The federal government's submarine contract with a German company offers a "tremendous amount of opportunity" to propel British Columbia's shipping industry, political and business leaders say. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced in Halifax...