VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Forests Ministry has chosen a stretch of land near Campbell River to be the first candidate for a proposed new model of how forests and timber are managed in the province. Under what the province has dubbed the "working f...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's largest hospital will become the first health care facility in North America to produce custom splints using 3D printing technology on site. Health Minister Ravi Kahlon said Tuesday that printing splints at the hospital wo...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Indigenous rights law, affordability and crime are all on the agenda at an annual conference for local leaders across the province this week, but Patrick Johnstone, the mayor of New Westminster, B.C., said the top concern...

SURREY - A 38-year-old man from Surrey, B.C., has been charged in a hit-and-run in the city that left a six-year-old girl dead. Surrey police say prosecutors approved several charges, including dangerous driving, impaired driving and failing to stop af...

NEW WESTMINSTER - Five children in the Philippines have been rescued and a man from New Westminster, B.C., faces multiple child-sex charges in Canada following an international police investigation. Police in New Westminster say its major crime unit b...

Photos posted on X last week that claim to show an American visitor's pickup truck targeted by vandalism in Canada received tens of thousands of views. The post chided Canadians for resorting to "childish anti-American theatre" as they adopt an "Elbows...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's health minister says the province will tweak the system that attracts doctors to rural communities after a B.C. Supreme Court ruling that the government wasn't authorized to force medical graduates of programs outside Can...

VANCOUVER - A new report from British Columbia's Human Rights Commissioner says Indigenous reserves are four times more likely to face wildfires than non-reserve communities in the province. The report from the office of Kasari Govender looking into th...

The crowds of protesters gathered outside Gao Bing Chen's home on a cul-de-sac in Surrey, B.C., for 11 weeks, rain or shine. The group of up to 60 people distributed pamphlets describing their baseless claims that the journalist and commentator was a t...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia deficit forecast has grown by $450 million to a record-setting $13.8 billion, largely because of a "calculation error" on natural gas royalties, in a situation one critic describes as a state of "fiscal crisis." Finance...

VANCOUVER - Video surveillance shows a Vancouver convenience store clerk sitting behind a counter speaking to a man standing in the doorway before the suspect appears to calmly shoot the clerk. The gun isn't visible, but there's a flash of the muzzle a...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has changed the way he's depicting a media briefing where he told reporters a councillor "handed out illegal drugs" on Christmas Day in 2025, with an amended legal filing in the defamation case against Sim calling it...

OTTAWA - Canadian border authorities say they have deported 111 people since August last year in efforts to combat extortion violence in South Asian communities. The Canada Border Services Agency says 58 cases were in the Pacific region, 30 were remove...

VICTORIA - The new party formed by British Columbia legislators who have defected from the provincial Conservatives in recent weeks gained a seventh member on Monday, with interim leader Peter Milobar calling it an exciting development as the fledgling...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia home sales fell again in August on a year-to-year basis, although the real estate industry says a "gradual recovery" is underway. The British Columbia Real Estate Association says there were 5,653 residential property sales...

An annual gathering of municipal leaders from across British Columbia is underway with the province's Indigenous rights legislation high on the agenda, along with housing and public safety, among other topics. The Union of B.C. Municipalities conventio...

DELTA, B.C. - British Columbia's ferry operator says two people were pulled from the waters between the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island after their fishing vessel sank. BC Ferries spokesperson Sheila Reynolds says the marine rescue happened Sunday ...

When Kieran Michael MacNeill started going door to door in Richmond, B.C., serenading householders in Mandarin, he was worried they might think he was a "weirdo." But instead, they embraced the efforts of the 22-year-old student, who spent summer singi...

SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., say a man is facing numerous charges after four shootings in the Metro Vancouver city, including three shots-fired incidents at the same home. The shootings at the home on 140A Street happened last December, with an ass...

VICTORIA - The newest member of a still-unnamed party acknowledged she and five other former provincial Conservative legislators are in for the "long-haul" if they want to throw out British Columbia's NDP government, while urging others to join them. T...

MONTREAL - Enforcement on cross-border cargo has ramped up enormously under the Trump administration, costing time and money and acting as a trade deterrent, shippers say. As a tariff wall rises along the 49th parallel, transport industry insiders say ...

PRINCE GEORGE - Prince George-North Cariboo Conservative MLA and Opposition House Leader Sheldon Clare says he remains confident in Kerry-Lynne Findlay's leadership despite mounting questions about the future of the BC Conservative Party.The party has been rocked by the departure of nine MLAs over the past month or so,...

SQUAMISH - Two drones played key roles in the nighttime rescue of a climber stranded 77 metres up a British Columbia cliff face this week, one helping deliver a rope and the other lighting the way. Squamish Search and Rescue says in a social media stat...

SURREY - New York first responders on Sept. 11, 2001, have spoken of the enduring bonds between Canada and the United States at a ceremony along the border between British Columbia and Washington state to mark the 25th anniversary of the attacks. They ...

VICTORIA - Politics in British Columbia could be getting more crowded as a group tries to take over and revive the moribund BC United party, to give voters what they call a "principled, mainstream centre-right alternative" in the province. The group ca...

A disturbing incident in which someone dressed in a Cat in the Hat costume chased a teenager in West Kelowna, B.C., occurred amid an online trend that twists the popular children's character into something sinister, leading police in some jurisdictions...

Robin Nuber was in Los Angeles on the weekend, but it was after he returned home to British Columbia that he found himself in a scene he likened to an "action movie," speeding in reverse to escape a man with a knife who was chasing a frightened victim ...

VICTORIA - Building ferries in British Columbia would help the province weather the harsh economic winds coming from the United States, said a labour economist and co-author of a new report that calls for a reboot of domestic shipbuilding. "We need to ...