VICTORIA - B.C. has turned up access to hearing aids. The provincial government says in a statement that adults with mild to moderate hearing loss can now buy over-the-counter hearing aids without a prescription. It says B.C. becomes the first province...

KAMLOOPS - The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen has issued an evacuation alert for properties in a community west of Princeton, B.C., due to an out of control wildfire. The BC Wildfire Service says the so-called Grasshopper Mountain fire is ab...

VANCOUVER - Former U.S. Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem has joined B.C. mineral exploration company NovaRed Mining Inc. in a strategic advisory role. The company says Noem, who is special envoy to the Shield of the Americas, will support NovaRe...

SURREY - A 22-year-old man is facing criminal charges after allegedly trying to abduct a child playing in a driveway in Metro Vancouver. Police in Surrey say the alleged abduction attempt happened Saturday at about 6:40 p.m., when officers were called ...

Mayor Denise O'Connor concedes that Lytton, B.C., looks "pretty empty" these days, aside from the homes of about 75 residents and a couple other buildings. It's almost five years since a wildfire killed two people and nearly wiped the village off the m...

TORONTO - Dr. Ellen Wiebe has never been one to shy away from risk. It started with the very first patient she provided with a medically assisted death: Hanne Schafer, a 66-year-old Calgary psychologist diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis thre...

The man accused of murdering Tatjana Stefanski in rural British Columbia more than two years ago will now represent himself, including delivering closing arguments in the case. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Bradford Smith told jurors in the second-degree ...

CHILLIWACK - Mounties in British Columbia's Fraser Valley say early indications show no criminality after 12 students were hospitalized Monday in what appears to have been an electrical accident at a water park. Const. Brad Holditch with the Upper Fras...

WEST KELOWNA - Joe Gluska, his wife and his daughter had 45 minutes to pack what mattered most to them after RCMP officers came to their door in West Kelowna, B.C., on Tuesday, telling them to get out as a wildfire grew nearby. The family lives about a...

VICTORIA - An environmental group is condemning plans by the British Columbia government to consider building two new hydropower projects, including a fourth dam on the Peace River, saying the province first needs to "come to grips" with the negative i...

SURREY - Organized crime investigators in British Columbia say a multi-month effort against a drug-trafficking operation has yielded the discovery of multiple kilograms of illicit drugs in Metro Vancouver. Police say the investigation began last Octobe...

SURREY - Homicide investigators say a 45-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in the 2018 death of a man in Metro Vancouver. Police say Miikael Tattoo King, formerly known as Michael Branden Anderson, is also facing one count of obstr...

SURREY - British Columbia's police watchdog is investigating after a man died while in custody in Vancouver. The Independent Investigations Office says in a statement that the man died Monday morning, a day after being arrested and placed at a Vancouve...

OTTAWA - Efforts to legalize assisted dying in Canada date back decades and the issue has been the subject of debate in Parliament and at the country's top court. Here are some key dates: 1892: Canada's first Criminal Code included a provision that bar...

VICTORIA - The B.C. government is terminating its deal with the design-build consortium it had selected to replace the aging George Massey Tunnel beneath the Fraser River in Metro Vancouver, though it says the $4.15-billion project is still on track. T...

CULTUS LAKE - Twelve students were taken to hospital Monday after what appears to have been an electrical incident at a waterpark in British Columbia's Fraser Valley. Chilliwack RCMP Cpl. Carmen Kiener confirmed in an email that the children were in st...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is looking at building two new hydroelectric dams, including a fourth dam for the Peace River where the Site C project generated opposition and cost overruns. The so-called Site E project would have a capacity...

VANCOUVER - The union representing more than 700 Metro Vancouver outside workers says it has agreed to resume talks with the employer with mediation from the B.C. Labour Relations Board. A statement late Monday from the Greater Vancouver Regional Distr...

VANCOUVER - Daily high temperature records fell at 26 British Columbia locations on Sunday as a weekend heat wave sweeps across the province. Environment Canada says the highest temperature was reported in Lytton, where it reached 36.8 degrees, breakin...

VICTORIA - New figures show residents in Greater Vancouver are meeting targets to keep water flowing, but regional officials are also urging them to keep saving water as temperatures rise. Metro Vancouver says in a statement that residents on Friday us...

The first window of time for farmers in Alberta and Saskatchewan to obtain strychnine to deal with burgeoning ground squirrel populations is about to run out, and many producers are now hoping for better luck next spring. Wade Nelson, who farms near Hi...

VANCOUVER - Police say a suspect who was charged with multiple counts of dangerous driving over a car-ramming attack last month in Vancouver is now facing a murder charge. Tadd Bali was charged with four counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicl...

VANCOUVER - Unionized workers in Metro Vancouver who oversee drinking water, wastewater treatment, air quality and other important jobs across more than 20 municipalities are taking full-scale strike action starting Monday. The union representing more...

OLIVER - A young bear in British Columbia's Okanagan had to endure several days with a stove pipe stuck over its head before conservation officers were able to remove it. The Conservation Officer Service of B.C. says residents in the area near Oliver f...

LANGFORD - Police on Vancouver Island are looking for a suspect after a girl was sexually assaulted at a bus stop. West Shore RCMP say the attack happened Tuesday at around 3 p.m. in Langford, a suburb of Victoria. Police say the girl was at the bus s...

VANCOUVER - A 32-year-old man has been charged with manslaughter over a fatal stabbing in Vancouver last September. Police say the accused is in custody and appeared in court Friday. The stabbing happened on Sept. 3, 2025, just before 1 a.m., when off...

VICTORIA - The B.C. Supreme Court has found that the City of Victoria did not go beyond its authority by passing bylaws restricting overnight camping in some city parks. Three homeless petitioners sought to quash two bylaws passed by the city in 2024 ...

SURREY - The police board in Surrey, B.C., says it has chosen its next chair, days after the last chair resigned over a controversial dismissal of the city's police chief. The Surrey Police Board says in a statement that it will be electing board membe...