VICTORIA - Talks are underway to bring ownership of the oldest daily newspaper in Western Canada home to Victoria. Ed Kennedy, advertising director with the Times Colonist, says the paper's parent company has agreed to sell the masthead, and is working...

VICTORIA - One of the architects of the rise of the British Columbia Conservatives from political obscurity to power in the province has been named to a senior position in premier-designate Lorne Doerkson's office. Angelo Isidorou, who has previously b...

The Juno Awards are calling Carly Rae Jepsen, no maybes about it. The Canadian pop star is set to host the country's biggest night in music. The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences says the "Call Me Maybe" singer will also perform at next y...

VICTORIA - The B.C. Conservatives have gained another seat after the final count of votes in the October provincial election. Conservative candidate David Xie reeled in NDP incumbent Paul Choi in Burnaby South-Metrotown, overcoming Choi's 66-vote lead ...

VANCOUVER - Another series of storms is heading for British Columbia, after wild weather knocked out power to hundreds of thousands, triggered evacuations and left one person dead over the weekend. Environment Canada has issued about two dozen wind war...

Spring comes to Leona Antoine's field in patches. The snow retreats from the Nicola River valley, leaving islands of wet grass scattered across her family's land. It's an invitation to carry on a practice she first learned from her grandfather. Antoi...

British Columbia's human rights tribunal has ruled that a private laboratory provider must pay $32,000 in damages, along with other costs, for discriminating against transgender and non-binary patients. The tribunal found LifeLabs and its subsidiary Ex...

ZEBALLOS - The wind that blew outside Gerry Sullivan's bedroom in the Village of Zeballos on northwest Vancouver Island was enough to wake him up early Sunday morning. "It was just howling, and we had thunder, we had lightning," he said. Sullivan and h...

VANCOUVER - A 23-year-old Canadian soldier was remembered Sunday as a globe-trotting, sporty and car-loving man with an infectious sense of humour and a fearless love for life. Hundreds of military personnel, family and friends gathered at an armoury o...

VANCOUVER - Police say a woman on an e-scooter died following a collision with a transit bus in downtown Vancouver. A release from Vancouver Police says the crash happened early Saturday when a man and a woman were riding an e-scooter on Seymour Street...

VANCOUVER - A North Vancouver woman is praising the quick actions of local firefighters for saving her life after she was swept down a fast-moving creek in the stormy weather that descended over parts of the province. Brittany Craig was attempting to ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia author and photographer Len Wagg was on his day off 30 years ago when he discovered how powerful and poignant a war cemetery could be. Wagg was on assignment for the Halifax Chronicle Herald in Italy when he accepted an invitation...

CHILLIWACK - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has announced the first detection of avian flu in a commercial poultry flock in British Columbia this season. The agency says the infection was detected on Friday in Chilliwack. It's the first case among...

SURREY - British Columbia Mounties say two people have been arrested and charged in two separate extortion-related shootings in Surrey last year, including one that targeted Kap's Café, owned by Indian comedian Kapil Sharma. RCMP say B.C.'s extortion t...

OTTAWA - The United States Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on eight Canadian businesses for allegedly helping to evade sanctions on Iran's government. The department says it sanctioned money services businesses in British Columbia and Ontario...

NEW WESTMINSTER - The rescue of a girl spotted struggling to stay afloat in the Fraser River this week involved an improvised rope and the commandeering of a local ferry. Police in New Westminster, B.C., say the rescue unfolded Wednesday, when witnesse...

A man from Mackenzie, B.C., who was the first to respond to a crash that injured 20 people when a shuttle bus careened off the highway said he is grateful he was in the wrong place at the right time. Rich Rogers was driving along Highway 39 with his wi...

VICTORIA - British Columbia premier-designate Lorne Doerkson is a fan of this week's federal budget, but two economists caution that it may not be easily emulated provincially. Marc Lee, senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives...

The first major weather system of British Columbia's storm season has set off a state of local emergency and evacuations on northern Vancouver Island, as forecasters warned that more drenching rain is on the way. Parts of Vancouver Island could receive...

MERRITT, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - A hunter missing in the backcountry of British Columbia's southern Interior for several days has been found dead. RCMP in Vernon, B.C., say the 57-year-old man was reported missing Monday morning after he failed to r...

NEW WESTMINSTER - A woman who pleaded guilty to multiple charges in a child sex trafficking case in British Columbia has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. The B.C. Prosecution Service says Jennifer Stephens has also been ordered to provide a DNA sa...

The federal budget handed down on Thursday includes funding pledges that are expected to benefit British Columbia. Here's a look at some of them. FORESTRY BOOST The budget is proposing $6.5 billion in funding to support the forestry sector nationally o...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's incoming Conservative premier Lorne Doerkson is all-in on the budget tabled by Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government, praising billions of dollars in financial support for the struggling forestry sector. Doerkson...

SURREY - A Surrey, B.C., security guard is in serious condition after being stabbed multiple times outside an amusement centre. Police say they were called to the parking lot of the Central City Fun Park on 124 Street at 3:38 a.m. Thursday. They say a ...

Deadly bear attacks in British Columbia are rare, but there have been at least 10 fatalities since the 1990s, including this week's attack that claimed the lives of a mother and daughter in Bella Coola. 1994 Four-year-old Ian Dunbar is killed in a bea...

MACKENZIE - Communications problems along Highway 39, which may have complicated the emergency response to a bus crash that injured 20 on Wednesday, are a familiar issue for northern residents, the provincial legislator for Mackenzie, B.C., said. Kiel ...

BELLA COOLA - The Nuxalk Nation in Bella Coola, B.C., said additional Mounties have been brought into the region to escort students to school after a fatal bear attack killed a mother and daughter in the community. It said in a social media post that p...

It may be almost two weeks since British Columbia's election resulted in a landslide win for the B.C. Conservatives, but it's still a tense time for a handful of candidates. New Democrat legislator Stephanie Higginson will be among those watching clos...