British Columbia news

Neighbours claim the illegal Oasis House hostel is back in business even though a judge found the owner in contempt of court for using her townhouse for short-term rentals.

A B.C. civil liberties group is calling out the federal government for a perceived double standard, questioning how it can appeal a ruling against solitary confinement while at the same time saying it is trying to end the controversial practice.

It was dismantled earlier this year but a homeless camp is back in Vernon.

The Monday, November 12, 2018 evening weather forecast for Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area.

"Every member of town council lost their home. Virtually our entire police department... lost their homes," Scott Lotter said.

More than 100 locations across Canada have taken part since national rotating strikes began three weeks ago.

There are too many polar bears in parts of Nunavut and climate change hasn't yet affected any of them, says a draft management plan from the territorial government that contradicts much of conventional scientific thinking.

Arnold Meyer spent 40 years working at the Tolko Industries Ltd. mill in Merritt, B.C., but then he faced the reality of being laid off.

Trinity Lutheran Church in Delta had two bells until the end of the First World War, when excited parishioners clanged one so hard during armistice celebrations that it cracked.

Elwood Poorman is accused of murdering Jonathon Shingoose on Nov. 4.

Elwood Poorman is accused of murdering Jonathon Shingoose on Nov. 4.

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) took over the case and determined this was an isolated incident.

In an effort to reduce landfill waste — and also brew a tasty beverage — a Vancouver Island project is using old bread to make beer.

A cannabis company hopes to build a grow facility in Merritt, replacing jobs lost in a mill closure two years ago.

Members of Saint Casimir’s Polish Parish in East Vancouver were shocked to find disturbing graffiti all over the walls on Sunday.

Victoria police say the burst happened at Tyee and Esquimalt Road, forcing the closure of the bridge.

Canada Post workers are walking the picket outside the huge sorting facility in Richmond today. Their job action continuing as both sides return to the negotiating table — even though the mediator’s mandate expired this weekend. Neetu Garcha has the latest.

Volunteers came to Vancouver to visit the graves of Canadians who volunteered to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War.

Indigenous women from North America are reflecting on what it means to have the first Native American women voted into U.S. Congress.

Foreign real estate investment, traffic congestion and environmentalism — it's hard to find a structure that epitomizes Vancouver any more than the Lions Gate Bridge.

Toys R Us Chief Play Officer Émile Burbidge shows Global News this year’s hottest toys, bound to be at the top of several Christmas wish lists.

A Boston-based company is launching its mobile app Drizly in Vancouver which promises to deliver beer, wine and spirits to consumers in under 60 minutes.

From an uncanny resemblance to the neighbour's child, to a father only described as 'tall and French Canadian' families tell CBC Ottawa their increasingly common stories of finding long lost half-siblings through genealogy searches.

Modern investigative techniques are being applied to the mysterious unsolved bombing of Canadian Pacific Flight 21, which killed 52 people in B.C. in 1965.

A new headstone in a Vancouver cemetery pays tribute to a family that perished in one of the worst nautical disasters in West Coast history — a disaster largely forgotten about due to its timing around the end of the First World War.

A Dutch historical foundation was able to locate the descendent of a young pilot killed in the war and return the airman's ring to him.

The mother of a teen with autism has started petition calling for Laurie Guerra to resign from the autism advocacy group.

No one was home at the time, and fortunately no one was hurt.

This Sunday, bells of peace will ring out 100 times at sunset across Canada to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War. Fernie will be the first place in B.C. to chime in.

The graffiti reads "AntiFa," "Refugees welcome" and "Nazis out!"