VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has agreed to apologize to the people of Tumbler Ridge after the mass shooting by a user of the firm's technology, whose worrisome online behaviour wasn't flagged to police by the...

NORTH VANCOUVER - Two mayors from Vancouver's North Shore are calling for a public inquiry into the cost of a new wastewater treatment facility, along with a governance review of Metro Vancouver and a mechanism to ensure fairness in cost sharing. A joi...

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver-based Christian charity founded by a wealthy businessman has filed a constitutional challenge in B.C. Supreme Court, claiming the Canada Revenue Agency has no right to revoke its charitable status. The Coram Deo Foundation, fou...

EDMONTON - Those in the wine and hospitality industries are applauding a move from the Alberta government to scrap a wine tax that they say reduced transparency and created business uncertainty. Alberta had introduced an ad valorem markup that taxed w...

VICTORIA - Workers in B.C.'s softwood lumber industry and those in other sectors who have lost their jobs because of U.S. tariffs will benefit from almost $71 million in funding for retraining. Federal Jobs Minister Pat Hajdu and Sheila Malcolmson, the...

VANCOUVER - Ottawa this week published details of an agreement recognizing the Musqueam First Nation's Aboriginal title within much of Vancouver. The news prompted claims on social media that Canada had ceded Vancouver properties to the Musqueam, but e...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will consult on doing away with twice-a-year clock changes. And she suggested if a switch is made, she would prefer going to permanent daylight time. "I kind of like more sunlight at night, and I think...

SURREY - British Columbia's police watchdog agency has cleared a Surrey RCMP officer in the shooting death of a man who threw a machete at police after killing his spouse. The Independent Investigations Office says the shooting happened on July 7 last ...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's teachers' union says its members have ratified a new four-year collective agreement, covering 52,000 educators in the province. The B.C. Teachers' Federation says its members voted 91 per cent in favour of the agreement ...

The metal-clad portable classrooms are arranged in a semicircle on a snowy sports field at Tumbler Ridge Elementary. It's a 15-minute walk from the community's secondary school, where five students and a teacher's aide were shot dead about three week...

Kevin Yee says the repetition of crochet has helped him release a lot of anger in a creative process he calls "cro-raging." "You really can get a lot of angst out of crochet because it is about tying knots," laughed Yee, who said it makes his chest ...

VICTORIA - The B.C. government has tabled legislation, which the housing minster says will make it easier to kick "problematic" tenants out of supportive housing. Groups like the BC Coalition of Safe and Supportive Housing have long raised concerns abo...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is filling the gaps left in his apologies to colleague Coun. Sean Orr, who he falsely accused of distributing illegal drugs after being shown a photo that he didn't verify. The mayor's office said Sim's apology has b...

VANCOUVER - Myles Gray had injuries that "looked like a hanging" when he died following an altercation with Vancouver police, a paramedic told a hearing into the actions of seven officers. Scott McEwen told the inquiry by the Office of the Police Compl...

Federal Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon says the CEO of OpenAI has agreed to take several actions to bolster safety, including providing a report outlining the new systems the firm is developing to identify high-risk offenders and policy ...

SURREY - Police say a 48-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Jessica Cunningham, whose remains were found last August in a home the pair shared in Maple Ridge, B.C. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says Rid...

VANCOUVER - A meteor that NASA says soared across the night sky above Metro Vancouver at about 100 times the speed of sound set off a fireball, a sonic boom and an explosive response online. Social media was filled with videos and reactions on Tuesday ...

Clad in colourful regalia and intricate masks, the Dancers of Damelahamid perform an art form that was once outlawed in Canada. Now, 75 years after the end of the potlatch ban that forbade Indigenous cultural and artistic expression, the group is amon...

VANCOUVER - The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed a bid by a fired B.C. health executive to seek employment insurance benefits, nearly five years after he lost his job for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds. Donald Sturgeon was the...

VANCOUVER - Clad in colourful regalia and intricate masks, the Dancers of Damelahamid perform an art form that was once outlawed in Canada. Now, 75 years after the end of the potlatch ban that forbade Indigenous cultural and artistic expression, the...

SUMMIT LAKE - Police say two people are dead after a semi-truck went off an embankment along the Alaska Highway in northeastern British Columbia. Northern Rockies RCMP say they received an automated crash detection notification early Tuesday morning in...

VICTORIA - British Columbia is urging U.S. states along the West Coast to fall in line with the provincial government's decision to adopt permanent daylight time. Premier David Eby announced Monday that the province will spring forward one last time t...

TORONTO - Nancy Saunders says her son Ben Brennan accomplished so much in his short life. He was an exceptional musician, loved writing and was a freelance recording engineer, she said. Brennan played in bands across Canada and toured Europe. He studi...

Soon after Rhiana Stryd moved to the scenic lakeside Village of Granisle in British Columbia's northern Interior in the fall of 2024, she says she began noticing her parents' health going downhill, while she was vomiting every day for months. Stryd sa...

CALGARY - The widening war in the Middle East is driving up spot natural gas prices in Europe and Asia, highlighting the potential for Canada to play a greater role as a stable global supplier. Natural gas prices in Europe have spiked around 70 per cen...

The mayor of Prince George in northern British Columbia is the father of six adult children, who got used to the struggle of getting his kids out of bed on dark winter mornings as they were growing up. Those days are now behind Simon Yu, but he still h...

VANCOUVER - A man accused of killing another man at a Vancouver café patio says he found the knife he used in an alley and took it as a "sign from God" that he needed to protect himself. Inderdeep Singh Gosal, 34, pleaded not guilty last month to secon...

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver are warning apartment residents of thieves using strands of hot glue to select which units they will break into. Vancouver police say that 10 apartment units in five separate buildings in the city and nearby Burnaby repo...