British Columbia

Students head back to school with climate change, AI and affordability top of mind

TORONTO - Students across much of Canada are packing lunches and slinging on backpacks today as they bid farewell to summer vacation and gear up for another school year. Parents and teachers say they'...

Sep 05, 2023

Stock market today: Asian shares fall back amid selling of China property shares

Shares fell back Tuesday in Asia after U.S. markets were closed for the Labor Day holiday. U.S. futures also were lower and oil prices were mixed. Hong Kong fell more than 1% as Chinese property stock...

Sep 04, 2023

Essential workers head back early to Yellowknife to be ready for everyone else

YELLOWKNIFE - Officials in Yellowknife, as well as staff with the Northwest Territories, are getting ready for the start of a mass migration home of wildfire evacuees that's still on track for Wednesd...

Sep 04, 2023

B.C. Coroner's inquest jury recommends police body cameras after fatal shooting

NELSON, B.C. - A jury in a coroner's inquest into the police killing of a British Columbia man eight years ago says the province and the RCMP should speed up the introduction of police body cameras. T...

Sep 04, 2023

Weekend weather in central B.C. causes 'very aggressive' fire activity

British Columbia's wildfire service says long weekend weather conditions caused "very aggressive fire activity" on several active blazes in the province's central fire zone. The service says the area ...

Sep 04, 2023

Back-to-office plans fall flat amid arbitrary rules, lack of communication

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Jamie Burke was happy with her job. Working in property management, the extroverted Vancouverite went into the office every day, took meetings in different buildings and ...

Sep 04, 2023

First Nation, regional district in central B.C. Interior orders wildfire evacuations

VICTORIA - Weekend winds in British Columbia's central Interior resulted in increased wildfire activity and saw evacuation orders in remote areas north of Burns Lake. The Cheslatta Carrier Nation and ...

Sep 03, 2023

Tribe getting piece of Minnesota back more than a century after ancestors died there

GRANITE FALLS, Minn. (AP) - Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the United States failed to fulfill treaties wit...

Sep 02, 2023

Biden tells Idalia's Florida victims 'your nation has your back' and DeSantis doesn't show up

LIVE OAK, Fla. (AP) - President Joe Biden on Saturday saw from the sky Hurricane Idalia's impact across a swath of Florida before he set out on a walking tour of a city recovering from the storm. Nota...

Sep 02, 2023

Twenty six properties on evacuation order in B.C. wildfire zones dropped to alert

VICTORIA - Evacuation orders for 26 properties in British Columbia's Kamloops and Shuswap Lake areas affected by two separate wildfires have been lifted and downgraded to alert status. The Thompson-Ni...

Sep 02, 2023