An inquest into the deaths of a B.C. family of four has heard for the first time that police characterized the deaths as a suspected murder-suicide, as well as a recorded police interview describing t...
The Canadian Press Feb 04, 2026
VANCOUVER - Police and the City of Vancouver took "unlawful" actions when restricting media access as city workers broke up a Downtown Eastside homeless encampment in 2023, but they are unwilling to a...
The Canadian Press Feb 04, 2026
ABBOTSFORD - Police say an Abbotsford, B.C., man is now facing an upgraded charge of first-degree murder in the death of a 30-year-old woman who was found dead inside a hotel last month. Homicide inve...
The Canadian Press Feb 04, 2026
VICTORIA - B.C. Conservative MLAs Bruce Banman and Steve Kooner are joining the contest to lead the party, pushing the field of candidates into double digits. Abbotsford-South MLA Banman says in an in...
The Canadian Press Feb 04, 2026
VICTORIA - Canada's Immigration Department says claiming asylum "cannot, and will not" prevent criminals being punished, after British Columbia's premier criticized refugee claims by extortion suspect...
The Canadian Press Feb 04, 2026
OTTAWA - British Columbia's minister of emergency management is accusing the federal government of being absent from flood mitigation planning meetings following two major flooding events in her provi...
The Canadian Press Feb 04, 2026
BRISBANE - The parents of Canadian teenager Piper James have walked in the surf and taken part in a traditional Aboriginal ceremony on an Australian beach where their daughter was found dead last mont...
The Canadian Press Feb 04, 2026
When two RCMP officers responded to a call about screams coming from a Burnaby, B.C., condo in late October last year, they forcibly entered the unit believing someone might be in trouble. Instead, th...
The Canadian Press Feb 04, 2026
After former Kamloops, B.C., lawyer Rogelio (Butch) Bagabuyo stole almost $800,000 from a client, stabbed him to death and then smuggled the body out of his office in a plastic tote, he tried to expla...
The Canadian Press Feb 03, 2026
BURNABY - A former RCMP officer says a man found dead with his wife and two young sons in Prince Rupert, B.C., told him days before that he had a "feeling" that someone was trying to kill them, not be...
The Canadian Press Feb 03, 2026