British Columbia

Suspicious fire guts B.C. elementary school, plans underway for students and teachers

PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. - Plans are underway to bring school life back to normal as quickly as possible for students and teachers at a Metro Vancouver elementary school that was destroyed in a suspicious...

Oct 15, 2023

Partial solar eclipse could be seen in B.C., but forecast may hamper view

VANCOUVER - Residents in southwestern British Columbia are in the best place to view the solar eclipse this morning. The event is known as a ring-of-fire eclipse, where the moon passes in front of the...

Oct 14, 2023

Forest Practices Board investigates planned back burn in B.C.'s Shuswap region

British Columbia's forest watchdog has confirmed it is investigating the province's response to wildfires that ripped through small communities on the shores of Shuswap Lake in August, destroying or d...

Oct 13, 2023

Man charged with murdering B.C. woman who went missing in 2022

COQUITLAM, B.C. - A 30-year-old man has been charged with murdering a Coquitlam, B.C., woman who was reported missing last November. Police say that after an almost yearlong investigation, homicide in...

Oct 13, 2023

Surrey, B.C., to ask court to review provincial order to stay with municipal police

SURREY, B.C. - The City of Surrey says it will file a petition with the Supreme Court of British Columbia for a judicial review of the provincial government's order that forces it to continue the tran...

Oct 13, 2023

Rare eclipse due Saturday over western B.C., but clouds could block the show

VANCOUVER - Western British Columbia will be the best place in Canada to view a rare annular solar eclipse set to happen Saturday, but cloudy skies could obscure the phenomenon for many viewers. An an...

Oct 13, 2023

Macklem says BoC will have to decide whether to be patient or to raise rates further

OTTAWA - Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem says the central bank will be deciding whether to exert patience at its next rate meeting or hike rates further. Macklem held a virtual roundtable with re...

Greg Fry Oct 13, 2023

No charges against Prince George, B.C., Mountie over 2020 death

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - Prosecutors in British Columbia say they won't be charging an RCMP officer in connection with the death of an Indigenous man in Prince George in 2020. A statement from the prosec...

Oct 12, 2023

RCMP dispute photojournalist's account of arrest while covering pipeline protest

VANCOUVER - The RCMP say a photojournalist who is suing the force was not exempt from complying with a court injunction while reporting on protests over the Coastal GasLink pipeline that's nearing com...

Oct 12, 2023

B.C. church group, caught between Israel-Hamas war, struggles to get home

VANCOUVER - A group from a British Columbia church that had been touring historical sites in Israel when Hamas fighters began killing civilians is struggling to find a way home with the confusion of t...

Oct 12, 2023