VANCOUVER - The number of overdose deaths of First Nations in British Columbia dropped by about a third in 2025 but the population continues to be disproportionately impacted by the province's toxic drug crisis that has killed more than 18,000 people i...

VICTORIA - The Kitselas First Nation in northwestern B.C. has reached a major milestone in its treaty process as the province tabled legislation to ratify the agreement, in the second such achievement for a First Nation in as many days. But like the pr...

UCLUELET - A First Nation in British Columbia has partnered with an environmental group to try to mitigate the harms of a massive landslide - known locally as "Big Bertha" - on salmon-bearing streams in the area. The Redd Fish Restoration Society says ...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Court of Appeal has ruled that residents evicted from a mobile home park on Songhees Nation lands on Vancouver Island no longer have to remove their homes from the property, but they aren't entitled to compensation for leaving them...

OTTAWA - The federal government is facing mounting calls to establish a military honours review board and to finally award Canada's highest military honour. The Canadian Victoria Cross was established in 1993 to recognize acts of valour, self-sacrifice...

VICTORIA - RCMP say the cleanup of an illicit drug-production superlab in British Columbia's Fraser Valley cost hundreds of thousands of dollars after the initial bust where 40 kilograms of fentanyl and its analogs were discovered along with 5,000 kilo...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Victoria Cross is Canada's highest military honour. It was created more than 30 years ago, but has yet to be awarded to anyone. Here's a brief look at what it is. What is the Canadian Victoria Cross? Established in 1993, the Canad...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver's council has approved a 250-room floating hotel on the city's waterfront that proponents say would bring more accommodation capacity and generate economic activity, despite concerns that it would mar water and mountain views. Th...

COQUIHALLA - A low-pressure system dumped significant spring snow on a number of major British Columbia highways, hampering travel through the Interior, including on the Coquihalla where 30 centimetres was recorded. Environment Canada says the overnigh...

CALGARY - Canadian oil and gas producers are benefiting from the surge in commodity prices driven by the Middle East war, but they say it's not changing their investment plans in the near-term. The chief executive at oilsands giant Cenovus Energy says...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's home sales trended down across the board in March in price, transactions and dollar volume in what realtors are calling a "very challenging economic environment." The B.C. Real Estate Association says 5,766 homes in the p...

NEW WESTMINSTER - A British Columbia woman who worked in Punjabi-language broadcasting has been sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison after attempting to smuggle more than 100 kilograms of methamphetamine into Canada from the United States. Sukhvinder Ka...

VANDERHOOF - A man who encountered a grizzly while walking on his own property in central B.C. escaped with a leg injury after scrambling under a barbed-wire fence. The provincial Conservation Officer Service says they responded to the attack on the r...

BURNABY - The union representing workers at the Kootenay Lake Ferry in B.C.'s Interior has filed an unfair labour practice complaint against the operator of the service. The BC General Employees' Union says in a news release that Western Pacific Marine...

A First Nation in British Columbia is one step closer to a fully ratified treaty after the province tabled implementation legislation on Tuesday, about 30 years after negotiations began. The treaty would confirm K'omoks First Nation ownership of about ...

VICTORIA - The American war with Iran isn't just a problem at the gas pump - B.C.'s minister of economic growth says fertilizer and pharmaceutical ingredients could also be in short supply. Ravi Kahlon says the federal government's move to suspend som...

RICHMOND - Ten people on a flight from Vancouver to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, were arrested over the weekend after police say their unruly behaviour created "safety concerns." RCMP say in a news release that the arrests happened on Saturday after officer...

VANCOUVER - Gender-based violence is costing British Columbia an estimated $1.12 billion each year, says a new report commissioned by the provincial YWCA. The report, titled The Cost of Inaction: Measuring the Economic Impact of Gender-Based Violence i...

SALMON ARM - Mounties in B.C.'s southern interior say a wild chase ended with two police cruisers being hit and a couch flying from the back of a pickup truck. RCMP say officers were called two weeks ago about a silver Dodge Dakota speeding and swervin...

VICTORIA - Paula Beardy said her grandson Sheldon Beardy was a good kid. He would have turned 28 on Monday. But his mother died last year, and after attending her memorial service in August, Sheldon also died of a drug overdose. Paula Beardy said She...

VANCOUVER - It was a once-dominant force in British Columbia politics, but for more than a year and a half the party formerly known as the BC Liberals has been dormant - at least in the public eye. Now, a scandal over dirty tricks in the run-up to the ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby said he may extend the current legislative session to find support among individual First Nations over his plans to suspend parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. "Even now, we ar...

SOOKE - Police say they are investigating the death of a man under "suspicious circumstances" on southern Vancouver Island. A statement from the RCMP in Sooke says officers were called to a mobile home park at around 3:20 a.m. Saturday after the man's...

VICTORIA - A bill by an Opposition Conservative in B.C.'s legislature about the health care of firefighters has passed through the legislature, an extremely rare occurrence for a private member's bill. The Firefighters' Health Act, was brought forward...

CHILLIWACK - In response to the ongoing federal firearms buyback program, police in the Chilliwack-area are reminding the public that they need to properly secure their firearms before turning them in at detachments in Chilliwack, Hope, Agassiz and Boston Bar.Upper Fraser Valley RCMP spokesperson Corporal Carmen Kiener...

MAPLE RIDGE - Two men have been arrested and charged in relation to a 2022 homicide in Maple Ridge, B.C., where a 33-year-old man was killed in what's believed to be a targeted attack. Homicide investigators say a 26-year-old man from Maple Ridge was a...

VICTORIA - Politicians and health experts are looking back at the successes and mistakes made during in the decade of a public health emergency into the toxic drug crisis in British Columbia. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Monday that...

VANCOUVER - Allowing publicly funded faith-based health-care providers to impose religious beliefs on patients, including those seeking medical assistance in dying, is a breach of the British Columbia government's "basic duty" to remain religiously neu...