VANCOUVER - A Canadian activist is accusing Hong Kong authorities of meddling in Canada's internal affairs after police in the Chinese territory issued a warrant for his arrest. Victor Ho and fellow Canadian Joe Tay are among six overseas activists targeted by Hong Kong police who announced rewards of HK $1 million, eq...

A 24-year-old pedestrian struck by a vehicle last week in Burnaby, B.C., has died. Police say the woman was hit the night of Dec. 17 and taken to hospital in critical condition where she later died. A statement from the RCMP says investigators are appealing for witnesses or those with dashcam footage between 10 p.m. an...

LANGLEY, B.C. - Police have released the name of a homicide victim whose remains were found during a bush fire in Langley, B.C., last year, as they appeal for witnesses in the case. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says Michael Kashani was 36 years old when he died last September, leaving "a void in his ...

PORT MOODY, B.C. - Police in Port Moody, B.C., say a gas leak from a truck that shut down a major road and triggered evacuations is believed to involve carbon dioxide, and not toxic ammonia as first suspected. A statement from officers in the Metro Vancouver municipality says first responders were called to Clarke Road...

A forecaster says ripe avalanche conditions are expected to persist across much of British Columbia for the rest of the week. Large swaths of the province, stretching from the coast to the Alberta boundary, are under "considerable" or moderate" avalanche danger warnings. Tyson Rettie with Avalanche Canad...

BURNABY, B.C. - Mounties in Burnaby are asking for the public's help identifying a suspect believed to have defrauded a senior of thousands of dollars by posing as a bank employee. Police say they received a report in September saying a man called the victim and was able to obtain their date of birth and passwords. The...

VANCOUVER - Striking janitors at the Vancouver International Airport say they have suspended a planned Christmas Eve escalation after reaching a tentative deal with their employer Alpine Building Maintenance. Janitors with Local 2 of the Service Employees International Union say they had planned to set up lawful picket...

VANCOUVER - Environment Canada says the first of a series of Christmas week storms forecast for British Columbia's coast is moving inland, after bringing 140 km/h winds to some exposed coastal areas. But there will be no respite for the south coast and Vancouver Island, with a second powerful storm expected to bring ve...

MONTREAL - Immigrants are increasingly choosing to stay in Quebec, according to a new report from Statistics Canada, but the same isn't true in the Atlantic region, which continues to lose newcomers to the rest of the country. Out of all the immigrants admitted into Quebec in 2021, almost 94 per cent of them were still...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Court of Appeal says a law passed by the provincial government to stave off opposition to a supportive housing development in the Vancouver neighbourhood of Kitsilano is unconstitutional. The provincial government had adopted the law at the request of the City of Vancouver in 2023 to push through a...

BURNABY, B.C. - A union representing striking aviation fuel workers in British Columbia is warning that diversion of the fuel to get around the industrial action could pose an environmental hazard. ILWU Local 502 says fuel from a tanker ship was diverted last week from a facility operated by employer SGS Canada to the ...

SURREY, B.C. - Mounties say a Chilliwack, B.C., man has been charged with three criminal offences after a crash between a tractor and BC Highway Patrol vehicle during a 2023 protest. They say the 54-year-old was arrested on Dec. 18 and will appear in Surrey Provincial Court on Jan. 16, charged with fleeing police, dang...

VANCOUVER - A derailment has sent rail cars carrying grain plunging into the Fraser River, and CN Rail says it's working to restore the tracks near Boston Bar, B.C. It says the incident involving about a dozen cars from a CPKC train on its mainline east of the Fraser Canyon community happened on Sunday due to a rocksli...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's forests ministry says more than 280 million trees were planted in the province this year. It says 13 different native tree species were chosen in its effort to preserve ecosystems and prioritize characteristics including resilience to climate change. The province says the reforestation eff...

SQUAMISH, B.C. - Mounties in Squamish, B.C., say they have recovered BC Parks and search-and-rescue equipment that was stolen this fall. They say in a news release that police received a report on Oct. 18 that a BC Parks storage unit had been broken into overnight and "large items" stolen. Then, on Nov. 21, t...

Beijia Ge's work duties change on an hourly basis. The Kingston, Ont., resident might be chatting with Chinese students about their secrets and challenges, or helping someone pack a suitcase, or baking cakes with a senior citizen. "If you are alone on your birthday but still want someone to sing birthday songs or ...

The Christmas season will see some stormy weather visit British Columbia's coastlines. A special weather statement from Environment Canada notes a low system off the coast will bring strong winds Monday morning and intensify throughout the evening. The statement goes on to say that a powerful system will then hit the n...

High winds are again hitting the coast of British Columbia, as gusts surpassing 100 km/h have been reported at several outlying islands. The continuing stormy weather comes as police say emergency crews have recovered the body of a second victim killed in a mudslide in the Sea to Sky region during another windstorm las...

When Dean May's team of cleaners entered the home, dressed head to toe in protective suits, thick green dust covered every surface. "We literally left footprints when we were walking in the house," he recalled. They were traipsing through the toxic remnants of an illicit fentanyl pill-pressing operation in no...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a recall due to possible norovirus contamination of certain oysters distributed in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. The agency says the recall covers certain Fanny Bay, Sunseeker and Cloudy Bay oysters under the Taylor Shellfish Canada brand. The recall says most of ...

BURNABY, B.C. - Two people are dead after a major vehicle crash in Metro Vancouver early this morning. Mounties say the crash happened at the intersection of Boundary Road and Forest Street, on the Burnaby side of the city's border with Vancouver. Police say a vehicle was travelling west on Forest Street when it was hi...

VANCOUVER - Residents of parts of the British Columbia coast are again bracing for high winds, with gusts forecasted to reach 110 km/h in some areas. Environment Canada says a wind warning has been issued in parts of B.C.'s central coast including Bella Bella and Klemtu. The forecast calls for high winds as a "vig...

Eighty-eight-year-old Lorne Collie has been making musical instruments for more than three decades, creations that dazzle for their unique materials as much as their sound. There's a hefty bass guitar and a cello made of moose antlers, a baseball bat violin, ukuleles made of cookie tins, and guitars fashioned from pitc...

The mayor of the suburban Victoria community of Colwood says he's getting calls from municipal leaders across Canada who have heard about his community's "out-of-the-box" plan to recruit family doctors as city workers. Mayor Doug Kobayashi announced this week that Colwood has hired its first family doctor for...

VICTORIA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the appointment of longtime businesswoman and philanthropist Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia as British Columbia's 31st lieutenant-governor. Trudeau says in a statement that Lisogar-Cocchia is a respected entrepreneur in the hospitality industry and a dedicated community lea...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association is calling on the provincial and federal governments to review medically-assisted dying legislation to ensure proper safeguards are in place. The association's executive director Liza Hughes says in a statement that it's aware of "concerning reports"...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has sentenced a woman with an extensive criminal history of impersonating nurses in several provinces to four years in prison, tacking on more time to a sentence she is already serving in Ontario. Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes says the prospects of rehabilitat...

VICTORIA - Former B.C. premier Glen Clark is returning to the public eye, two years after leaving his high-profile position as president of Jim Pattison Group. The provincial government has announced that Clark has been appointed to chair BC Hydro's board of directors, taking over for Lori Wanamaker, whose term ends on...