British Columbia news

Chad Alphonse is accused of second-degree murder in the death of his good friend.

"If the rabbit is outside, it's at risk," said a provincial wildlife veterinarian.

The Kananaskis Country Public Safety has taken to Facebook to warn hikers to stay away from cornices.

The system will start with tsunami warnings, but could be used for wildfire evacuations in the future.

Spring break was extended in most B.C. schools in 2010 as a way for school boards to save money. With the current NDP government promising to invest more in education, some are questioning whether the longer penny-pinching holiday is still necessary.

Ronjot Singh Dhami is the subject of a Canada-wide warrant after a man with autism was beaten at a Toronto-area bus terminal.

"We’re the only jurisdiction in Canada that has the ability to investigate political parties," acting B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Drew McArthur says.

A painting of Emerald Lake, B.C. by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sold at an auction for nearly six times its estimated value. As Reid Fiest reports, the buyer isn’t known, but the seller hopes the historical piece will return to Canada.

David Murray resigned in 2017 after being convicted of attacking a teenaged girl in the '90s.

He was her employer, she was 14 and he was in his 30s when the sexual assault took place.

Marine scientists in B.C. have for the first time seen a killer whale drown a baby of the same species.

For the first time ever, marine scientists in B.C. have documented a killer whale drowning a baby of the same species.

The truck is believed to have picked up some already-smouldering waste which ended up catching fire in the back of the truck.

British Columbia's premier says the province will address long wait-lists for hip and knee replacements, allowing an extra 4,000 people to have the surgeries in the coming year.

A volunteer rescue group says it's found a new clue in one of three unresolved searches for small aircraft in B.C.

Kelowna, West Kelowna and the regional district of Nanaimo all want out of the tax, which they say unfairly targets vacation homeowners.

"Leave everything, leave everything."

Police in Mississauga, Ont., have identified two of the three suspects in the recent assault of a 29-year-old man with autism at a bus terminal in Mississauga.

Two-term Vancouver Park Board commissioner and former Park Board chair John Coupar wants to be the next mayor of Vancouver.

The City of Salmon Arm is organizing a celebration for Wilkie on Friday.

Rescuers in the southern Interior say three ground searches also remain open, a number one Kamloops Search and Rescue leader said is "quite upsetting.''

Roughly 7,000 workers are needed province-wide to pick and pack B.C. fruit.

Kelowna city council voted Tuesday to draft a letter to the B.C. government officially announcing its opposition to the proposed speculation tax.

A young cougar spotted in downtown Kamloops on Wednesday morning has been tranquilized and removed by B.C. Conservation officers.

Last year, when a mosque in Victoria, Texas was burned down in an alleged hate crime, a nearby synagogue opened its doors to give the Muslim community a place to pray.

A BC Wildfire Service spokesperson said it “is not entirely unusual" to have a blaze this early in the year.

A GoPro video shows smoke filling the cabin of a WestJet flight travelling from Vancouver to Nanaimo on March 20, 2018. The video shows the plane being evacuated on arrival.

The Vernon woman who died after being found unresponsive in her home last week has been identified as Heather Marie Barker.

"The concern I have is that the news, the stories that I have about the hockey bags full of $20 bills, are not making it over the mountain to Ottawa," he said.

Just For Laughs has been sold to an investor group led by Canadian-born comedian Howie Mandel and an American talent agency.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and British Columbia Premier John Horgan are the two most popular provincial leaders in Canada, according to the latest survey from the Angus Reid Institute.

YoutTube cooking personality Lauren Toyota shows us how to make some of her favourite plant-based recipes from her new cookbook “Vegan Comfort Classics”.

Experts generally agree that expanding the pipeline would have some downward effect on regional gas prices — but it would be far from an overnight fix.

Newly appointed Lieutenant-Governor Janet Austin tells us about what she hopes to achieve in her new role as the Queen’s representative in B.C.

Emergency Management BC sounded the alarm at 1:55 p.m.

Emergency Management BC is sounding the alarm at 1:55 p.m.

A federal cabinet minister says a directive to Service Canada agents telling them to use gender-neutral language - such as 'parent' instead of 'mother' or 'father' - when speaking to the public was badly worded and will be corrected.

Service Canada employees who interact with the public are being asked to stay away from terms like Mr. and Mrs. or father or mother, and to use gender-neutral terms in their place, CBC News has learned.

A B.C. judge calls prison time a “grossly disproportionate” punishment for a mentally disabled man convicted of a child sex crime.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Gary Weatherill calls jail time a "grossly disproportionate" punishment for a mentally disabled man convicted of sexual interference involving two teenage girls.

After several years and nearly $100 million of research and testing, engineers say they have developed new technology to extract valuable metals from waste products in the Alberta oilsands.

Fifty-year-old documents uncovered by the CBC podcast Finding Cleo detail a tense struggle between the bureaucrats behind a Saskatchewan adoption program and Indigenous groups that called it an act of "cultural genocide."

Ronjot Singh Dhami, 25, is one of three men suspected of beating a man with autism at a Mississauga bus station March 13, Peel Regional Police say. A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for his arrest on one count of aggravated assault.

Jonathan Marchessault scored his 23rd goal of the season and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-1 on Tuesday night.

Construction of one of five condominium towers that will change the skyline of downtown Kelowna in the next five years began Tuesday night.

One of the three men involved in a "cowardly" attack in the Toronto-area has been identified and is from Surrey B.C.

Parents and employers say they're all struggling with the demands the extra week brings, including childcare costs and getting time off from work.

"I think its nonsense. It's another unnecessary set of firearms control regulations and regime that will have nothing whatsoever to do with preventing any crime."

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Many parents are struggling to find child care during a two-week spring break. As Tanya Beja reports, some school boards are asking the province to reconsider the length of what used to be a week-long vacation.