RICHMOND - At Imperial Hobbies in Richmond, B.C., the air is filled with the sounds of battle. "Three, two, one - shoot!" The combatants unleash their weapons, setting off high-pitched whirring, and clashes of plastic and metal. Beyblades - the spinn...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. government says it will not open an overdose prevention site in downtown Vancouver amid concerns from the city and businesses. Health Minister Josie Osborne says the local health authority will not proceed with a site at 900 Helmc...

EDMONTON - A standoff between Premier Danielle Smith and her own United Conservative Party on the issue of separation is over - and the premier has won. Premier Smith and party president Rob Smith had been at odds over where they stand on Alberta stayi...

VANCOUVER - The Transportation Safety Board has found that a pilot missed important steps on a checklist during maintenance work before one worker was injured and another killed by the tail rotor of a helicopter at a B.C. airport. The board's report re...

KAMLOOPS - The daughter of murder suspect Vitali Stefanski has testified that he left her a voice message in Russian saying her mother had "made life hell," the morning the woman went missing from her home in British Columbia's Interior. A recording of...

Alcohol use in British Columbia has reached a 20-year low after spiking during the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new report from the provincial health officer says consumption is still above both national and recommended levels. The report released Wednesd...

TRAIL, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - A motorcycle rider has been killed in British Columbia's Kootenay Region after the vehicle reported struck an elk on a highway. Trail RCMP say the crash happened at around 4:25 a.m. on Monday on a stretch of Highway 3B...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver police say a senior citizen has died in hospital more than a week after they were knocked from a mobility scooter when a vehicle sped through the city's West End, crashing into trees, a police car and other obstacles. Police say p...

LANGLEY - Homicide investigators have been called in after a shooting in Langley, B.C., in which one man died. Langley RCMP say they and other emergency services were called to a report of shots fired in the 5400 block of Brydon Cres., around 11:30 p.m...

A German utility has signed a long-term agreement to buy one million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year from the yet-to-be-built Ksi Lisims project in northern British Columbia as European countries look to lock down reliable fuel supplies in a t...

VICTORIA - Relations between the British Columbia government and First Nations plunged this year as Premier David Eby grappled with how or whether to amend the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, which he once championed. The province ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's attorney general says it is rare to reopen a court case as significant as the landmark Cowichan Tribes title decision, but the government supports an effort to do so by the largest private property owner in the title area....

COMOX - Residents in B.C.'s Comox Valley can resume normal use of toilets, dishwashers and washing machines after the regional district announced Tuesday that repairs to a major sewer leak were complete. In an update, the Comox Valley Regional District...

A deal to supply Canadian liquefied natural gas to Germany would be a key step toward the partners behind the Ksi Lisims project deciding to go ahead with their $10-billion West Coast plant and export terminal, British Columbia Premier David Eby said T...

KAMLOOPS - A Crown lawyer says police were with an abandoned car as it was being towed from a British Columbia forest road when murder suspect Vitali Stefanski emerged shoeless from the woods and told them he had killed his ex-wife, whose body was then...

One of the nine Victoria school board trustees fired by the B.C. government last year says she feels "vindicated" after a court case challenging the dismissal came to an unexpected end on Monday. British Columbia Education Minister Lisa Beare said dur...

VICTORIA - A private-members bill to mandate dash cameras on all commercial vehicles travelling B.C. highways has passed unanimously through the legislature. B.C. Conservative member Ward Stamer says the bill started with families along Highway 5 in h...

SURREY - British Columbia's police watchdog is investigating after a man was shot during an interaction with officers in Surrey, B.C. Police say the shooting happened at around 7:30 p.m. Monday near a home on Southpark Crescent, when officers were cal...

SQUAMISH - A man has been injured in a black bear attack in Squamish, B.C., about 60 kilometres north of Vancouver. British Columbia's Conservation Officer Service says in a Facebook post that the attack happened Monday around 7 p.m., when a man was ru...

MISSION, BRITISH COLUMBIA - Homicide investigators have been called to Mission, B.C., after a woman was found dead in a residence. Mounties say officers were notified by the B.C. Ambulance Service around 11:30 p.m. Sunday night after they received a c...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops MLA Ward Stamer's private members bill to mandate dash cameras in commercial vehicles in British Columbia has cleared third reading in the B.C. Legislature, en route to becoming law. There have been a few speed bumps along the way, but on Monday (May 25), B.C. MLAs voted unanimously in support of an...

VICTORIA - The flagship of South Korea's submarine fleet is docked in British Columbia where it's serving as a floating floor model in the Asian nation's pitch for Canada to buy 12 like it. The crew of the ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho, a KSS-III-class diesel...

OTTAWA - The federal government has set up Canada's first-ever reserve of firefighting aircraft to help provinces and territories respond to the 2026 wildfire season. The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, or CIFFC, has leased 10 aircraft and t...

OTTAWA - A majority of the House of Commons voted against a non-binding motion on Monday that called on the federal government to protect private property from First Nations land claims - a political issue the Crown-Indigenous Relations minister has sa...

WEST VANCOUVER - A man has died while scuba diving off West Vancouver, in the second such death in British Columbia waters in less than a week. West Vancouver police say they received a call about a diver in distress off Whytecliff Park around 1:30 p.m...

VANCOUVER - Some Metro Vancouver workers have walked off the job as the union begins escalating strike action in a labour dispute with the regional district. The Greater Vancouver Regional District Employees' Union says in a release that its members ha...

KAMLOOPS - Almost five years ago, the monument in front of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School was surrounded by flowers, cards, soft toys and other mementoes, echoing grief that had swept across Canada. On May 27, 2021, the Tkemlúps te Secwe...

TORONTO - The star of a Canadian medical drama that just premiered its fourth season says he feels elevated by the recent success of other homegrown TV shows such as "Heated Rivalry" and "North of North." "We do have a tone, we do have a voice. There i...