PRINCE GEORGE - The British Columbia Nurses Union has voted 98.2 per cent in favour of strike action, more than 50,000 of the approximately 55,000 union members voted after talks reached an impasse in April over issues including benefits, pay and staffing shortages. Plus Prince George City Council has supported efforts...

PRINCE GEORGE - A historic and powerful development Tuesday in British Columbia's healthcare crisis as the BC Nurses Union (BCNU) announced Monday morning that an overwhelming 98.2% of its members voted in favour of strike action. This comes after six months of intense bargaining over wages, understaffing, and workplac...

PRINCE GEORGE - Prince George's martial arts scene continues to show their strength, as three Judo clubs will be sending a combined 23 local athletes to the 2026 Judo Open National Championships. Hosted from May 14-17 in Calgary, AB, this National tournament is considered the most prestigious judo tournament in the cou...

PRINCE GEORGE - Two bowlers from Prince George have returned home after representing British Columbia at the national level. Kyra Thurston and Jacinda Trenholm took part in the national five-pin bowling championship in Winnipeg, MB earlier this month and brought back a result they can be proud of. The Nechako Bowling s...

KAMLOOPS - Parts of Kamloops in the British Columbia Interior have been without water for more than a day after a main break disrupted service. Officials say residents east of Rose Hill and nearby areas continue to be without water after efforts to fix...

British Columbia's public safety minister says that while police in the province have reported declining extortion cases in recent months, combating the crisis remains the government's top public safety priority. Nina Krieger gave the opening remarks a...

DAAJING GIIDS - A magnitude 4.0 earthquake was recorded off the coast of northern B.C. and was lightly felt in the villages Port Clements and Masset on the east side of Haida Gwaii. Earthquakes Canada says it struck around 1:35 p.m. on Tuesday at a dep...

ROGERS PASS - The military has decided to end its role in avalanche control along a major British Columbia transportation route, that has seen it fire artillery shells to set off slides in Rogers Pass for more than 60 years. The Department of National ...

PARKSVILLE - B.C. Highway Patrol says a man is facing six charges after a crash injured two adults and a baby more than a year ago. Police say that on March 3, 2025, a Chevrolet pickup and a Toyota Prius collided head on in the northbound lanes of High...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia Premier David Eby says he's still optimistic about artificial intelligence, having seen both the "opportunity and the threat" the technology presents. Eby told a crowd at Vancouver's Web Summit that B.C. has experienced th...

QUÉBEC - The Quebec government has introduced a bill to better protect people from intimate partner violence. The bill would allow people who fear for their safety or that of their children to obtain information about the domestic violence history of ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... What we know about hantavirus now that people linked to outbreak are back in Canada The outbreak of hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise ship has captured the atte...

OTTAWA - The astronauts who captured the world's imagination during a journey to the far side of the moon last month will bring their space lore to Ottawa today. Canadian Jeremy Hansen and his Artemis II crewmates have a series of events in the capital...

OTTAWA - People across the country completed their census forms this week, sharing details about their lives, which languages they speak and - for those who got the long-form census - information about their social and economic situations and access to...

MONTREAL - Stephane Vallieres remembers going to the old Montreal Forum at age 12 to watch the Canadiens play the Quebec Nordiques like it was yesterday. On Tuesday night, he was among about two dozen people in the cafeteria of the Old Brewery Mission ...

TORONTO - The outbreak of hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise ship has captured the attention of Canadians and left many with questions. Here's what we know so far. WHAT KIND OF HANTAVIRUS WAS ON THE SHIP? Passengers on the ship got Andes virus, which...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the murder convictions and life sentence of disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh in the shooting deaths of his wife and younger son. In a unanimous ruling, the justi...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for the International Board of Peace overseeing the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, acknowledged on Tuesday that little progress had been made. "Seven months since the ceasefire, the doo...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A burst of gunfire rang out Wednesday night in the Philippine Senate, where authorities have tried to arrest a senator, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for a charge of crime against humanity, an Associated P...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The Democratic primary for a key U.S. House seat in Nebraska was too early to call late Tuesday, as two candidates were separated by a narrow margin in a contest that could decide the fate of the state's "blue dot" - a small, but sig...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana officials have agreed to a tentative $4.8 million settlement with the family of Ronald Greene, a Black motorist who died during a violent 2019 roadside arrest carried out by five white officers, two people with knowledge of...

Missouri's top court heard an important legal challenge Tuesday to one of President Donald Trump's earliest redistricting successes, while lawmakers in Louisiana and South Carolina weigh whether to become the latest Republican states to redraw U.S. Hou...