VANCOUVER - The BC Prosecution Service says a Vancouver police officer has been charged under the Motor Vehicle Act for driving without reasonable consideration for others, a year after a pedestrian was hit in the city's Downtown Eastside. The prosecution service says Const. Aaron Carter faces the charge after B.C.'s p...

NANAIMO - Police in Nanaimo, B.C., say a search is underway both at sea and on land after a woman's sailboat was discovered washed ashore and empty. Mounties say 34-year-old Amber Nitchman is the registered owner of the 10-metre white sailboat that was found Thursday near Bayshore Drive and Hammond Bay Road off Nanaimo...

VANCOUVER - Sixteen 320-kilogram barriers arrived in Vancouver this week, specially designed to block vehicles trying to enter public spaces. The barriers were ordered in February, about two months before the Lapu Lapu Day festival attack that killed 11 people, when an SUV plowed through a crowded street. But police sa...

PORT MCNEILL - Another dead whale has washed ashore on a British Columbia beach, the third over two weeks, but a marine wildlife expert says there's likely no connections to the deaths. The Namgis First Nation says in a statement that a resident reported finding the whale Wednesday on a beach near Port McNeill, B.C., a...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says the province is sending almost 100 wildland firefighters to Ontario, where fires have been threatening several communities near the Manitoba border. Parmar says the deployment comes after B.C. sent 42 firefighters to Manitoba, where a blaze near Lac du Bonne...

NAKUSP - A member of a British Columbia regional district says a decision not to allow the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to dispose of ostrich carcasses in its landfills pending further testing of the birds has been met with "gratitude." The Regional District of Central Kootenay board resolved "to with...

NORTH VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man has been banned from hunting sheep in the province for three years after he illegally killed a bighorn ram and lied to authorities about where the hunt took place. B.C.'s Conservation Officer Service says in a statement posted to Facebook that Heith Proulx of Kelowna killed the ...

SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating an early morning house fire in the city's Bridgeview neighbourhood. They say officers responded to a report of a structure fire around 1:35 a.m. in the area of 127 Street and 113A Avenue. Police say firefighters extinguished the blaze, but remained on scene around 8:15...

BURNABY - A coroner's jury in British Columbia has recommended high schools provide resuscitation training and demonstrations of how to use naloxone after ruling that the overdose death of a University of Victoria student last year was accidental. The inquest found 18-year-old Sidney McIntyre-Starko died of brain injur...

VICTORIA - A council made of forestry professionals, educators, union and former industry officials has been brought together to find a balance between healthy forests and a prosperous industry. The B.C. government announced the Provincial Forest Advisory Council on Thursday, appointed under the co-operation agreement ...

VANCOUVER - The winner of what the B.C. Lottery Corp. calls the biggest jackpot ever awarded to a single person in Canada says that winning the $80 million prize is "life-changing." Justin Simporios from Surrey, B.C., fought back tears of joy at a news conference on Thursday, saying he has already resigned fr...

VICTORIA - The BC Prosecution Service says an officer with the Central Saanich Police Service has been charged for driving without due care and attention. The charge against Cpl. Phillip DiBattista is in relation to a crash with a cyclist that happened on May 21, 2024. The prosecution service says B.C.'s police watchdo...

VICTORIA - (UPDATE 5:30 p.m.): First Nations leaders are calling on B.C. Premier David Eby to immediately "kill" two pieces of legislation that would fast-track projects in response to U.S. government tariffs, with one leader saying they could take the government to court if it presses ahead. Robert Phillips ...

BURNABY - Mounties in Burnaby, B.C., have recovered pallets of beer, food and enough toilet paper and paper towels to supply a town in an investigation into the theft of shipping containers. RCMP say in a news release that three containers that held merchandise worth about $125,000 were stolen last August from a busine...

CALGARY - For more than 65 years, Enbridge Inc.'s Westcoast pipeline has been pumping natural gas through First Nations territories across British Columbia. Under a deal announced Thursday, three dozen of those communities are to see long-term financial benefits from the 2,900-kilometre system that stretches from B.C.'...

The Canadian Real Estate Association says home sales in April fell 9.8 per cent compared with the same month last year, as the national housing market has returned "to the quiet markets we've experienced since 2022." A total of 44,300 residential properties changed hands across Canada last month, compared wit...

Eleven people were killed at the Lapu Lapu Day festival in Vancouver on April 26, when an SUV drove through a crowd at high speed. Here is what we know about the victims, whose identities have been confirmed by Vancouver police and festival organizer Filipino BC: Jendhel Sico Filipino BC and the Lapu Lapu Day festival ...

VANCOUVER - Even the smallest victories are being celebrated by Roland Nulada and his family, as he recovers from devastating injuries suffered in the Lapu Lapu festival attack in Vancouver. On Monday, it was Nulada's first meal in 16 days - soup and baked macaroni, "the very soft ones," says his older sister...

VICTORIA - The BC Coroners Service says overdose deaths have been trending downward in the province, with 275 people dying in February and March due to the toxic drug supply. The service says in a statement that March is the sixth consecutive month in which fewer than 160 people died due to unregulated drug toxicity. I...

VICTORIA - B.C. Premier David Eby says a trade mission to Asia next month will help the province become the "engine of a new Canada," but one economist says B.C. also needs to become more competitive at home. Eby will be visiting Japan, South Korea and Malaysia between June 1 and June 10 as part of a business...

VICTORIA - Premier David Eby says B.C.'s director of police services acts independently and government can't interfere with the request for an investigation into a leaked document that alleged some pharmacies were diverting prescription opioids to the illegal market. B.C. Conservative legislature member Elenore Sturko ...

EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - The family operating the British Columbia ostrich farm where 400 birds have been ordered culled say about 40 supporters have arrived on scene in anticipation of a possible showdown with federal authorities. In the meantime, the Regional District of Central Kootenay says it has recei...

PRINCE GEORGE - Mounties in Prince George, B.C., say a 15-year-old girl was shot while in a recreational vehicle parked at a local homeless encampment. A statement from the RCMP says the teen was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Police say the shooting happened around 1 a.m. at the Lowe...

SAANICH - Police in Saanich, B.C., say a 36-year-old teacher in the Greater Victoria School District is accused of engaging in sexual interactions with students. They say Marnie Burnham, who also taught under the name Marnie Forin, faces three counts of sexual exploitation and two counts of telecommunicating to lure a ...

Rule changes designed to reduce opioid overdose deaths in British Columbia in 2016 inadvertently harmed cancer and palliative-care patients by reducing their access to pain killers, a new study has found. The study published this week in the Canadian Medical Association Journal describes the impact of a practice standa...

KELOWNA - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has sentenced a 26-year-old man from India to 2.5 years in prison for taking part in a so-called "dial-a-dope" operation in Kelowna. Mandeep Pandher pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine, fentanyl and para‑fluorofentanyl, for the purpose of trafficking on t...

VICTORIA - Plans by the British Columbia legislative assembly to open a childcare facility remain up in the air after the provincial government rejected a funding request. The legislature had applied for the funding in February 2024, but B.C.'s Ministry of Education and Child Care informed the legislature in March that...

VANCOUVER - A Federal Court judge has tossed out a challenge that would have stopped the killing of about 400 ostriches on a British Columbia farm that suffered an outbreak of avian flu. More coming. The Canadian Press