PRINCE GEORGE - Prince George remains prepared to welcome wildfire evacuees from British Columbia's Interior, but despite ongoing evacuation orders connected to the Pear Lake wildfire near 70 Mile House, officials say no displaced residents have arrived at the city's reception centre so far.The City of Prince George ac...

VANDERHOOF - Residents in parts of the Prince George Fire Centre will once again be permitted to conduct larger open burns beginning later this week.The BC Wildfire Service says the prohibition on Category 2 and Category 3 open fires will be rescinded in the Stuart Nechako Forest District, which includes the Vanderhoof...

PRINCE GEORGE - A Prince George city councillor is calling for a province-wide public inquiry into wildfire mitigation, arguing that increasingly severe fire seasons and growing threats to communities demand stronger action from government.Councillor Brian Skakun raised the issue in a recent Facebook post, saying Briti...

PRINCE GEORGE - The permanent closure of Canfor's Northwood pulp mill is being described as another major blow to Prince George's forestry sector, with local and federal politicians now calling on governments to address the underlying challenges facing the industry.Canfor Corporation announced earlier this month that i...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has issued an order affecting more than 450 water licenses to protect fish in the Salmon River watershed, saying the Thompson-Okanagan region has been wracked with "severe" drought. A statement from the Water ...

NEW WESTMINSTER - British Columbia's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says a 44-year-old woman has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison for the death of her 18-month-old child. Police say the child died in July 2021 in New Westminster, B.C. T...

British Columbia Premier David Eby says he helped a cabinet minister write her statement denouncing plans for the expansion of a liquefied natural gas plant neighbouring her riding, despite his government advocating for the project. It's a break from t...

SURREY - Another 462 skilled-trades training seats are being added at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, B.C., this year to prepare people to become plumbers, millwrights and electricians. The move bumps that number of trade seats at the univer...

CLINTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - There was little left besides twisted metal, blackened trees, the charred shell of a car and a tractor still burning in images taken at a property outside Clinton, B.C., by the owner, whose home was destroyed by a fe...

TORONTO - A patient in Alberta waited 16 days in an emergency department for a psychiatric hospital admission last year. Another in British Columbia waited just over nine days. These cases are extreme outliers, but mental health experts say they illu...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... House committee meeting today to debate Gordie Howe bridge deal A House of Commons committee is holding a special meeting today about the Gordie Howe International...

OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee is holding a special meeting today on the Gordie Howe International Bridge as the Liberal government continues to face questions about its revenue-sharing agreement with the U.S. The meeting is expected to be mostl...

TORONTO - Chris Alexander, a former Conservative cabinet minister and ambassador who once made headlines for Ottawa's handling of the Syrian refugee crisis, is entering the race to become Toronto's next mayor. Campaign spokesman Wilf Dinnick said in an...

NEW WESTMINSTER - British Columbia's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says a 44-year-old woman has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison for the death of her 18-month-old child. Police say the child died in July 2021 in New Westminster, B.C. T...

EDMONTON - Alberta's capital city has broken the record for its wettest summer on record days before the start of August, bringing with it flooding, show cancellations and relentless mosquitoes. Edmonton has been saturated by 580 millimetres of rain as...

OTTAWA - A Canadian facing espionage charges in Belgium will remain in custody for the time being. Following a closed-door hearing Tuesday, the Belgian federal prosecutor's office said the suspect would continue to be held in pretrial detention. The pr...

LEGE-CAP FERRET, France (AP) - Firefighters in southwest France battled an uncontained wildfire four times the size of Paris on Wednesday as temperatures were forecast to reach 40 C (104 F), threatening to turn a calm night into only a brief reprieve. ...

CAIRO (AP) - Jordan's air defenses intercepted five missiles launched from Iran early Wednesday, the country's military said, hours after the U.S. military said it had knocked down an Iranian missile barrage launched against American forces in the Midd...

KUMAMOTO, Japan (AP) - Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people, including a foreigner, in southw...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has confirmed Jay Clayton to become head of the nation's intelligence agencies, putting a permanent director in place weeks after President Donald Trump sought to delay his nomination. Clayton, the U.S. attor...

A judge on Tuesday sentenced a teenager who killed two students and two teachers in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole, calling his crimes "deliberate, contemplated evil." ...

SEATTLE (AP) - The 15-year-old arrested after a shootout at a food festival near Seattle's Space Needle over the weekend was armed with a ghost gun with an extended magazine, police said Tuesday. Police Chief Shon Barnes told a news conf...