VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has issued an order affecting more than 450 water licenses to protect fish in the Salmon River watershed, saying the Thompson-Okanagan region has been wracked with "severe" drought. A statement from the Water ...

NEW WESTMINSTER - British Columbia's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says a 44-year-old woman has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison for the death of her 18-month-old child. Police say the child died in July 2021 in New Westminster, B.C. T...

British Columbia Premier David Eby says he helped a cabinet minister write her statement denouncing plans for the expansion of a liquefied natural gas plant neighbouring her riding, despite his government advocating for the project. It's a break from t...

SURREY - Another 462 skilled-trades training seats are being added at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, B.C., this year to prepare people to become plumbers, millwrights and electricians. The move bumps that number of trade seats at the univer...

CLINTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - There was little left besides twisted metal, blackened trees, the charred shell of a car and a tractor still burning in images taken at a property outside Clinton, B.C., by the owner, whose home was destroyed by a fe...

TORONTO - A patient in Alberta waited 16 days in an emergency department for a psychiatric hospital admission last year. Another in British Columbia waited just over nine days. These cases are extreme outliers, but mental health experts say they illu...

CLINTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - A video circulating on social media is providing insight into the wrath of a wildfire that triggered a battle to save the evacuated village of Clinton, B.C., and the surrounding community, where homes and other struc...

KELOWNA - A 97-year-old man from Kelowna, B.C., has died in a crash between his mobility scooter and a charter bus. RCMP say they were called at the same time as an ambulance on Sunday afternoon. Police say the man on the scooter was taken to hospita...

SURREY - British Columbia's police watchdog has launched an investigation into the death of a suspect in a property crime probe after an officer fired their gun while attempting to make an arrest at a truck stop in Abbotsford, B.C. The Independent Inve...

VANCOUVER - The Defence Department says a $75,000 fine issued to the owner of a deteriorating vessel on the Fraser River in Richmond, B.C., will be registered with Federal Court after the owner failed to pay or request a review of the decision. A state...

CLINTON - A councillor for Clinton, B.C., said Monday that sad stories were emerging from the community where homes and other structures have been destroyed by wildfire. A photograph provided by the BC Wildfire Service appeared to show most of the vill...

WEST VANCOUVER - Police in West Vancouver, B.C., say a man has died while scuba diving in waters off a local park. A statement from police says officers responded to a report of a diver in distress at Whytecliff Park, near the Horseshoe Bay neighbourho...

Two wildfires threatening the village of Clinton, B.C., and the surrounding area merged late Saturday, a day after the Pear Lake blaze destroyed structures, including homes, on the outskirts of the community. An update from BC Wildfire Service said the...

VANCOUVER - It was more than three years ago when Vancouver police arrested a man after he was seen using multiple bank cards to make withdrawals at an ATM. A search revealed he was carrying 66 bank cards and $39,200 in cash. The strange discovery in M...

CLINTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - An official with the village of Clinton, B.C., says the community is largely still standing after an overnight battle against a raging wildfire. Brian Doddridge, with the village's emergency operations centre, says h...

Vancouver stunt woman Devyn Dalton says she never expected her biceps to go viral. But then Matt Damon credited his four-foot-six-inch stunt double in "The Odyssey" for having "the greatest arms" he's ever seen. He didn't identify her in the interview ...

CRESTON - A man has been arrested and charged with one count of second-degree murder after a body was found in Creston, in southeastern B.C. RCMP say charges have been laid in the death of Larry John Isaac, a Creston resident whose body was discovered...

VANCOUVER - The union representing 55,000 nurses in British Columbia has accepted a mediated proposal that could end its weeks-long strike action. The BC Nurses' Union says in a statement that its bargaining agent has accepted the recommendations for ...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is exempting a utility company that plans to expand its liquefied natural gas plant in Metro Vancouver, allowing the $2-billion investment to move ahead. Energy Minister Adrian Dix says the government has iss...

EDMONTON - Fresh off multiple Canadian provinces agreeing this week to make it easier to get out-of-province alcohol shipped right to people's doorsteps, Alberta says it's now time to do the same for commercial retailers. Service Alberta Minister Dale ...

SURREY - British Columbia's independent police watchdog has cleared a Surrey, B.C., officer of criminal wrongdoing in a crash last year where a woman was killed. The Independent Investigations Office says in a report that the crash happened on Dec. 14...

VANCOUVER - Southeastern British Columbia is covered in air-quality warnings as wildfires burning across the province belch out thick smoke. Environment Canada has issued yellow and the more severe orange warnings from the U.S. border north to central ...

When the flames advanced on the B.C. Interior village of Clinton late Friday, Nicolas Kosovic could barely believe what he saw. The operator of the Stagecoach Cafe believed he was one of the last people to get out of the community after it was ordered ...

VICTORIA - Former British Columbia premier Christy Clark says voters in the province face a choice between the "worst government in B.C. history" and an opposition headed by an unelectable leader. "She cannot win an election," Clark said of Conservativ...

ABBOTSFORD - A hit man who is already serving a life sentence for the 2022 murder of a former suspect in the Air India terrorist attack has been sentenced to another 15 years for an unrelated killing that took place less than four months earlier. The I...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby says local businesses will have access to a federal emergency fund if the United States follows through on new tariff threats. U.S. President Donald Trump says he plans to impose tariffs of up to 50 per cen...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government says it's expanding the supervision of repeat offenders with the creation of seven new intervention and monitoring hubs in the Lower Mainland to help reduce street disorder and crimes targeting businesses. It...

OTTAWA - Experts warn the latest tariff threats from the United States will hit some provinces harder than others - and could test the united Team Canada front. U.S. President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders Monday to impose 50 per cen...