OTTAWA - Five gun control advocacy groups have told the RCMP they're "alarmed and disappointed" the force has not yet disclosed basic information about the models and legal status of the firearms used in the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., mass shooting. The RCMP...

OTTAWA - First Nations leaders on Tuesday unveiled five items repatriated to their communities after being held at the Vatican for more than a century. They also unboxed another two crates of items with origins that have yet to be determined. The retur...

Pokémon cards were the focus of a gang who turned up at an Abbotsford, B.C., collectibles store on Friday - but they weren't there to play. In pre-dawn scenes captured on the store's security video, the masked raiders smash a window then loop a chai...

ABBOTSFORD - A weeks-long trial of three men accused of murdering an Abbotsford, B.C., couple came to a close in B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday, with defence lawyers painting a picture of a robbery gone wrong leading to the killings, rather than a preme...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver City Coun. Sean Orr is suing Mayor Ken Sim for defamation after he accused Orr of distributing illegal drugs, comments the councillor said were made for political gain. The lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court says Sim acted "delib...

VICTORIA - B.C. Premier David Eby says he had a "frank discussion" with U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra about the cross-border softwood lumber dispute and tariffs. Eby says he and Hoekstra didn't agree on everything at their meeting on Tuesday, but he sa...

ABBOTSFORD - Police in Abbotsford, B.C., are investigating after a woman reported being driven to a rural area against her will and sexually assaulted by four men. Abbotsford police say the woman reported the attack on Feb. 27, saying that she was pick...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver has moved closer to an official snowless winter after a chilly blast failed to result in the benchmark one centimetre of accumulation at the city's airport. As much as four centimetres had been forecast for sea-level regions in Me...

MISSION, BRITISH COLUMBIA - The chief of the fire department in Mission, B.C., says air conditioning units were falling through the ceiling behind his crew members as they were trying to evacuate people from a burning seniors' home. Chief Mark Goddard...

This summer, Alex Alvarez will pack her belongings and make the 3,500-kilometre trek with her husband, young son and Boston Terrier from Anchorage, Alaska, to Nanaimo, B.C. - a city she's never visited - to work as a registered nurse. Alvarez is among...

OTTAWA - Culture Minister Marc Miller says a rights acknowledgment agreement between the federal government and the Musqueam First Nation has "nothing to do with" private property. He says instead that the agreement signed last month is a small step fo...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is bringing in legislation to prevent intimidation, mental and physical harassment, and obstruction of people from going to their temples, churches and other places of worship. The 20-metre protection zones f...

MONTREAL - The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority says a record amount of cargo flowed through its terminals last year as shippers sought to grow overseas markets far from an increasingly protectionist United States. Freight volumes at the Port of Vancouv...

ABBOTSFORD - One of three men accused of killing an Abbotsford, B.C., couple has conceded that evidence against him shows he knew of the planned home invasion that resulted in their deaths - but his lawyer says the prosecution hasn't proven his client ...

VANCOUVER - The forensic pathologist who performed an autopsy on Myles Gray in the days after he died following a beating by Vancouver police officers testified Monday that it did not reveal a single, definitive cause of death. Rather, Dr. Matthew Orde...

VANCOUVER - The man accused of killing RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang in a Burnaby, B.C., park testified Monday at a hearing in Vancouver to determine whether he is fit to stand trial. Jongwon Ham, who appeared in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, is charged ...

VANCOUVER - Lawyers say a $30-million class-action settlement over child abuse allegedly committed for decades at two Vancouver-area Catholic schools could be shared by more than 200 ex-students. Joe Fiorante with Vancouver-based CFM Lawyers said Monda...

VICTORIA - Snow is expected to make a late-winter visit to southwestern British Columbia, with Environment Canada issuing a special weather statements for much of Vancouver Island. The weather agency has also issued a statement for Metro Vancouver, war...

EDMONTON - Environment Canada warned residents in much of Alberta and southern Saskatchewan to secure loose objects and expect damage as strong winds whipped through, leaving thousands of residents in the dark. The warnings were in place for most area...

PENTICTON - The RCMP say a 36-year-old man has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with a 2022 double homicide in Penticton, B.C. Police say the BC Prosecution Service has approved two counts of first-degree murder agains...

VANCOUVER - Ride-share drivers across Canada say the surging gas prices at the pump, tied to the escalating conflicts in the Middle East, are the final straw for them. As the war in Iran, led by the U.S. and Israel, enters its second week, thousands o...

OTTAWA - Clocks are set to spring forward on Sunday as most of Canada moves to daylight time until the fall. Daylight time begins at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 8, when clocks move forward one hour, until Nov. 1, when they'll be turned back an hour to rejo...

VANCOUVER - A forensic expert has told a hearing into the 2015 police-involved death of Myles Gray that not much could be concluded from a toxicology report regarding his behaviour, that Vancouver officers have previously described as "animalistic" and...

VICTORIA - Two new police training sites have been approved in Vancouver and Victoria to address a surge in demand for recruits from communities across British Columbia. Public Safety Minister Nina Krieger announced the measure on Friday at the B.C. le...

ABBOTSFORD - A prosecutor says three men accused of murdering an Abbotsford, B.C., couple kept a bat used to bludgeon one of the victims to death, displaying it with "pride" in videos recorded months later. The B.C. Supreme Court in Abbotsford was sho...

CALGARY - The chief executive of AltaGas Ltd. says he's disappointed the company has been drawn into a dispute over who has the right to export certain energy products from the Port of Prince Rupert in northern British Columbia. "At AltaGas, we take...

A new Sabayons department store has been breathing new life into a property that just a year ago was on the verge of being dark and empty in the heart of downtown Victoria. Canada's oldest company Hudson's Bay filed for creditor protection on March 7, ...

MISSION, BRITISH COLUMBIA - Police in British Columbia's Lower Mainland say two people are facing a combined 34 firearms-related charges in a joint investigation across multiple cities. Mission RCMP say a 49-year-old man from North Vancouver has been c...