British Columbia news

A Surrey homeowner who cut down a tree full of peacocks next to his house could end up paying for it.

Members of the Senate's Aboriginal peoples committee are recommending the Liberal government hold back on legalizing cannabis for at least a year in order to address its potential for harmful effects in Indigenous communities.

The family of a drowned 26-year-old Irish man, whose body was recovered north of Revelstoke on Saturday after several failed search attempts, is grateful to the man and the dog that found him.

Raw drone video and pictures of the landslide north of Fintry.

Housing staff in Whistler is so hard, one employer bought them their own house.

Bacon, 30, was shot and killed in broad daylight outside a hotel in 2011. He and his brothers were believed to control the Red Scorpion gang.

The comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan are widely viewed as influential classics, but they're also controversial and rife with cultural stereotypes that were common in the 19th century.

"It's a very aggressive disease."

Protesters say the city promised 100 per cent housing at the welfare rate in a proposed social housing complex at 58 W. Hastings.

Colleen Kohse had a double lung transplant when Canada did not offer the procedure for cystic fibrosis patients. Remarkably, she lived almost 30 years after the surgery and her life inspired patients and doctors alike.

Whether you are adding colour and fragrance to your own home or crafting something special for Mother’s Day, lifestyle expert Tina Barkley has some easy projects for you to try.

This pet, currently under the care of the BC SPCA, is waiting for its forever home.

Downtown Eastside activists are blocking the entrance to Vancouver City Hall to protest what they say is a broken promise by Mayor Gregor Robertson.

Vancouver's city council meeting had to be postponed Tuesday morning after protesters surrounded the doors of city hall and refused to let people in.

Contractors who had been working in Burnaby, B.C., have been assigned to other projects after Kinder Morgan stopped non-essential spending on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in April.

Part of the road caved in around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.

A proposal to develop the old Garibaldi Springs golf course in Squamish is angering locals who want the area to remain a designated green belt.

A U.S. outdoor gear company that was dropped by Canadian retailer MEC in the wake of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School massacre plans to exit the gun manufacturing business.

A 30-year-old woman and two young girls, aged three and nine, died from the crash after three vehicles collided on Lougheed Highway just north of Pitt River Road.  

RCMP investigators are trying to determine a motive for the apparent shooting

RCMP investigators are trying to determine a motive for the apparent shooting

Crown counsel and defence council are asking for 18 years in custody for each of the three accused.

Dietitian Diana Steele explains why sweeteners are added to certain foods and what they do to your body.

The change is the result of Ontario's tax on non-resident speculators, which covers Toronto but not Ottawa, the bank said in a new report.

Lifestyle expert Natalie Langston is joined by B.C. Lion Jerimiah Johnson and his family, and Vancouver Whitecap Marcel de Jong and his family as they show off denim fashion in advance of Jeans Day in support of B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation, coming up on May 3.

Ahead of the Canadian Festival of Chili and BBQ, Rusty Johnson of Rusty’s BBQ shows us how to cook a perfect steak every time using a reverse sear technique.

The meeting was to be held in his Vancouver-Point Grey riding to talk about the increase in the school tax for homes valued at more than $3 million.

A homeopathic remedy made from rabid dog saliva will no longer be sold in Canada, though similar products from other brands are still licensed for sale.

The B.C. government's decision to increase a school tax for people who own homes valued at more than $3 million has prompted so much controversy that a town hall has had to be postponed. That postponement didn't stop Point Grey residents from rallying at Trimble Park.

The provincial government's decision to a school tax for people who own homes valued over $3 million has prompted so much controversy, a town hall has had to be postponed.

TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond talks about the historic transportation deal that details investments in SkyTrain and bus services across Metro Vancouver.

Reporter Jordan Armstrong is in Vancouver Tuesday where water restrictions will start for the summer months. They are kicking in two weeks early this year to help conserve water for the drier summer months.

Three children who allegedly contracted E. coli from a petting zoo at Vancouver's Pacific National Exhibition will have to wait at least another year-and-a-half to have their day in court.

Volunteers at Pandora Park in East Vancouver had just set up a new hive to start the season when they were shocked to discover somebody had stolen it.

Millions of cellphones, tablets and other portable devices will sound off across the country next week to test Canada's new public emergency alert system.

There is a growing number of seniors in British Columbia, but not enough young people to take care of them.

Kirby-Yung says the course provides golfers with an affordable option.

A busy stretch of Lansdowne Road has been closed at the border to Oak Bay since January, as crews install a water main extension.

With the fate of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion project hanging in the balance and Alberta threatening to choke the flow of oil to B.C., the price at the pump has become impossibly political

"I've never been in a position to infect someone in any way whatsoever," Carlisle said.

"How do you take down that tree away from these birds?"

There’s outrage in a Surrey neighbourhood after a tree was cut down where peacocks made their nest.

It was a joke that happened in a drug raid. Now a defence lawyer is asking for a stay on proceedings.

Spallumcheen has begun an improvement project on a road that intersects the north Okanagan town.

The flooding comes before the peak of the spring runoff, which is expected to push water levels higher over the next few weeks.

New video has surfaced that allegedly shows an Abbotsford police officer stealing cash during a drug raid last year. Jill Bennett has the details.

But those wages could go up, experts say.

Watch Global News Hour at 6 with Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui for Monday, April 30, 2018.

While this is largely good news for the city, some have questioned whether it could make cost of living and labour shortage concerns in Vancouver even worse.

Gas prices in Metro Vancouver are sky high. But where politicians seem to differ is why things have gotten so expensive at the pumps.