TORONTO - Last May, six-year-old Kofi Berkley started getting itchy and developing bumps on his skin while he was playing with his friends at recess. The recess supervisor brought the Grade 1 student, who didn't have any known allergies, to his Edmonto...

SURREY - British Columbia's police watchdog says it's looking for witnesses after a Surrey police vehicle was involved in a crash with a pickup truck that ran into a concrete SkyTrain barrier, injuring the driver and leaving a pedestrian with serious i...

WHISTLER - A woman was taken to hospital after a bear attack in the backcountry outside the mountain resort town of Whistler, B.C. B.C.'s Conservation Officer Service says in a social media post a trio of hikers came face to face with two bears near a ...

VANCOUVER - Lisa Sun recalls watching the SuperDogs at the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver as many times as she could as a kid, delighting in the performers' speed, skill and comic relief. Now it's Sun and her three pugs, Mario, Luigi and Yosh...

The Metro Vancouver Regional District has parted ways with its chief administrative officer. Jerry Dobrovolny, also the commissioner, had been with the regional district since 2019. Metro Vancouver board chair Mike Hurley says the move comes ahead of t...

SQUAMISH - A hiker missing for five days in mountainous terrain near Squamish, B.C., has been found alive, walking himself to safety after a massive search. Squamish Search and Rescue shared a photo of Stanislav Volo, 43, smiling broadly and giving a t...

The B.C. Conservatives have been in a state of upheaval since former finance critic Peter Milobar quit the official Opposition caucus three weeks ago. The party has since suffered a parade of defections from legislators citing differences with Leader K...

More British Columbia school districts are banning electric bikes and scooters from their properties ahead of the new school year, citing a spike in injuries among underage riders. The Langley School District said in a letter to parents this week that...

VANCOUVER - A 26-year veteran of the Vancouver Police Department is facing charges of theft, fraud and breach of trust involving millions of dollars in a case the force's chief is calling "deeply distressing." Kalwinder Dosanjh, who is well known for h...

SQUAMISH - RCMP have arrested a man for arson after three suspicious fires along Highway 99 last month. Sea to Sky RCMP say the fires on the west side of the highway between Whistler and Squamish all occurred in the early hours of Aug. 22. Police say t...

SURREY - Four people who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2023 killing of a 19-year-old man in Burnaby, B.C., have received their prison sentences. Homicide investigators say the latest sentence came Tuesday, when Rhoda Diabikulu was delivered a s...

It's been a busy three weeks for Peter Milobar. Since announcing he was leaving the British Columbia Conservative caucus on Aug. 14, setting off an exodus from the party, Milobar has gathered with fellow defectors into what is being billed as the "stab...

VANCOUVER - A veteran Vancouver police officer has been charged with breach of trust, fraud and theft for alleged offences dating back to 2017. Online court records say Kalwinder Dosanjh faces a total of nine charges including fraud over $5,000, theft...

Hundreds of trees have been found embedded with metal spikes in Vancouver Island's upper Walbran Valley, according to a court ruling that extends an injunction against a logging blockade there until early 2028. The B.C. Supreme Court court ruling says...

EDMONTON - The owner of two dogs that killed an 11-year-old boy wiped away tears Thursday as she was given a conditional sentence to be served in the community. Crystal MacDonald otherwise stared straight ahead during sentencing by Justice Eric Mackli...

A search manager says a hiker missing for four days near Squamish, B.C., made a brief 911 call on Tuesday, and while the call dropped out, it's given a clue to the man's location. RCMP said Stanislav Volo, 43, was last seen getting off the Sea to Sky G...

British Columbia New Democrats won't court B.C. Conservative defectors, after nine legislators left the official Opposition caucus in the past three weeks, Premier David Eby said. Eby told an unrelated news conference Thursday that there was a "fairly ...

PRINCE GEORGE - British Columbia Premier David Eby says new lawsuits against OpenAI from witnesses to the deadly Tumbler Ridge mass shooting are a result of the tech firm walking away from a mediation process, calling it inexcusable and disgraceful. Eb...

Major British Columbia wildfires have been downgraded as the wildfire service says fall weather is on the way, though there are still 150 active blazes across the province and drought remains a concern in the southern Interior. The Bald Range blaze in ...

Construction is underway on a major electricity transmission project in northern British Columbia that the federal and provincial governments say will inject billions into the provincial economy, drive new industrial development and assert Canada's sov...

WEST VANCOUVER - A man has been fined $27,000 after he was caught intentionally feeding wildlife, including bears and coyotes, in Metro Vancouver. British Columbia's Conservation Officer Service says the sentence was issued in North Vancouver provincia...

RICHMOND - Two men have been arrested and charged after allegedly using a stolen vehicle to crash through the metal gates of an outlet mall and into a storefront. RCMP in Richmond, B.C., say police were called to the McArthurGlen Designer Outlet at Van...

SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., have released an image and description of a person of interest after a mosque in the Metro Vancouver city was vandalized with threatening language and pieces of raw bacon were left outside its doors. A statement from po...

VANCOUVER - A man has been found guilty of manslaughter but cleared of murder in the 2023 stabbing outside a Vancouver coffee shop of a father who whose death was captured on video and shared widely online. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kathleen Ker told ...

Hilroy has apologized for leaving Newfoundland and Cape Breton off the Canadian map on its glossy notebooks, after the mistake led to backlash online. Hilroy's pastel-coloured paper exercise books are well known across the country for the map of Canada...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay said she was the victim of a "co-ordinated political attack" after she accepted the resignation of her chief of staff and two more legislators quit her caucus on Wednesday, both citing...

NORTH VANCOUVER - A Metro Vancouver woman has been fined more than $300 after being caught on video asleep behind the wheel of a Tesla driving on a busy highway. The BC Highway Patrol says the incident was reported on Aug. 11 around 3:30 p.m. on Highwa...

VANCOUVER - Artificial intelligence company OpenAI and founder Sam Altman are facing 30 new lawsuits from witnesses to the deadly mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., with plaintiffs including a teacher who described trying to protect pupils from the ...