QUESNEL, B.C. - Police have charged a 37-year-old man after an employee was assaulted during a reported theft at a Quesnel liquor store. Quesnel RCMP say officers responded to the West Side Liquor Store around 1 p.m. on Friday, November 6, after getting a report about two men fighting. Police say an employee tried to s...

PRINCE GEORGE - A fire caused major damage to a building on the Hart Highway Sunday night, but no one was hurt.Prince George Fire Rescue said the fire was reported at about 8:20 p.m. on Nov. 8 in the 7000 block of the Hart Highway.Twelve firefighters from three stations responded and found the building full of smoke wi...

PRINCE GEORGE - A resident was sent to the hospital with burns after a fire broke out at a multi-unit residential building in Prince George over the weekend.Prince George Fire Rescue said crews from three stations responded to the 100 block of Ontario Street around midnight on Nov. 7.When firefighters arrived, they fou...

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - Thousands of residents in and around Prince George are still waiting for their electricity to be restored after a powerful windstorm knocked out power to roughly a third of BC Hydro customers in the area.The outages began Friday as strong winds swept through the region, toppling trees and sending ...

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...

VANCOUVER - A defendant in Steven Galloway's defamation lawsuit says she was concerned about the potential for self harm by the woman who accused the author and former University of British Columbia professor of rape and sexual assault, which he denies...

OTTAWA - The federal government spent $19 billion on external consultants last year, despite a promise to cut back on its use of outside contractors. The government's audited financial statements for last year were released on Friday and they show the ...

VANCOUVER - An environmental economist testifying at Canada's first youth-led climate trial says the country has a limited ability to affect the climate inside its borders as it is largely determined by the choices of other countries. David Anthoff, w...

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Lena Diab says the new immigration levels plan is meant to make the system more predictable while doing the "right thing" by clearing a severely backlogged humanitarian permanent residency stream. The levels plan, publishe...

OTTAWA - The Office of the Auditor General of Canada says the federal government wrote off billions of dollars last year in COVID-19 benefits that it no longer expects to see repaid. The federal government is trying to recoup payments made to Canadians...

ST. JOHN'S - It's tough to sleep and brush your teeth in space and the food is mostly liquid, but Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk said Monday that he is nonetheless having a blast. Kutryk beamed into a science centre in St. John's, N.L., to answer a f...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Thomas Massie moved Monday to force a vote to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, putting pressure on his fellow Republicans to decide whether to remove one of the Trump's administration's most prominent figures following swe...

PARIS (AP) - France on Monday blamed Iran for last month's massive cyberattack on supermarket fridges, summoned the Iranian ambassador and said it would seek European sanctions against those responsible for the attack. The Oct. 12 attack...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The death toll from the capsize off Senegal of a boat carrying migrants rose to 39 following the discovery of more bodies on Monday, the country's emergency services said. The boat, which left Saint-Louis in northern...

French judo star Teddy Riner is bidding for president. The 37-year-old multiple Olympic champion announced his bid on social media and said in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper published Monday that he is positioning himself as "nei...

KRAKOW, Poland (AP) - The 24-year-old gunman who killed six people and wounded 15 others in a Polish city square died in a hospital on Monday, police said. The attacker, wearing military-style clothing and a bulletproof vest, drove into t...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - At least 22 people died while attempting to reach Greece from North Africa over the past three days, with 13 bodies recovered from a boat south of Crete on Monday and eight found in another boat over the weekend. Mor...