British Columbia News

Retrieved on: 2025-06-27 01:00:03 PDT

Man dead after shooting in Surrey, B.C.: police

Police say a man is dead after a shooting near the 10800 block of 129 Street in Surrey. It is the fourth recorded homicide in Surrey this year.

Brush fire near hospital in Kamloops, B.C., sends smoke billowing through city

A brush fire near Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, B.C., is sending smoke throughout the city.

B.C. Ferries receives $1B federal bank loan for Chinese-made ships

B.C. Ferries has secured a $1 billion loan by a federal Crown corporation to help obtain four Chinese-made ships, a purchase that federal Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland recently said should not involve federal funds.

B.C.'s Interior Health Authority confirms additional measles cases

B.C.'s Interior Health Authority says there are now confirmed cases of measles in Kamloops, Kelowna, Salmon Arm and the Nelson area.

B.C. launches dedicated Crime Stoppers line to report extortion, violence against South Asian businesses

B.C. Public Safety Minister and Solicitor General Garry Begg said threats against South Asian businesses have increased in recent months and years.

Prince George RCMP investigate $25,000 in damage to cemetery headstones

Staff at the Prince George Municipal Cemetery found 21 toppled headstones Monday. Police are now asking the public for information.

Rustad wonders if he should have made 'blackmail' claim after Opposition caucus meets

However, the B.C. Opposition Leader says he didn't exaggerate the claims and doesn't regret writing a letter to his caucus that contained the allegations now being examined by police.

Disability tax credits are critical for some Canadians. But applying for them can cost thousands

As Canada launches its new disability benefit payments in July, medical and disability experts are raising alarms over barriers to obtaining the main eligibility requirement, the disability tax credit. Former clients say companies are charging them thousands of dollars for help with their applications — unaware free alternatives exist.

Carney's 'nation-building' projects bill passes into law — but not without Indigenous pushback

The Senate passed Prime Minister Mark Carney's landmark 'nation-building' projects bill unamended Thursday, giving the federal government extraordinary new powers to fast-track initiatives that have the potential to boost the economy as Canada grapples with the U.S. trade war.

Treasury secretary calls to scrap Trump's 'revenge tax' that could hit Canada, U.S.

A controversial tax being proposed by President Donald Trump's administration that could cost Canadians and Canadian businesses billions is up in the air after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said a deal has been reached to scrap it.

B.C. municipalities allowed to take on more debt for small projects, says province

Municipalities in British Columbia are fiscally conservative whether they want to be or not — but the province is letting that change, at least a little.

Canadian dies while in ICE custody in Florida, U.S. agency says

A Canadian citizen died while in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this week, the agency says.

These massive waves used to be the stuff of legend

Once dismissed as a maritime myth, rogue waves are now being recorded in Canadian waters more than ever. A network of AI-powered buoys off the coast of B.C. is capturing these giants in real time. Johanna Wagstaffe meets the engineer developing new tools to understand — and maybe one day forecast — their chaotic nature.

B.C. shipyard contracted to build federal vessels but not local ferries

There have been questions over why a B.C. Ferries' contract went to a Chinese shipyard instead of North Vancouver's Seaspan. As Leanne Yu reports, B.C.'s largest shipyard is already busy with federal projects.

Parents are pressured to give kids an '80s summer. Are we wearing nostalgia blinders?

The internet is rife with articles and posts waxing nostalgic for the unscheduled summers of decades past. But the reality is all these posts urging parents to let kids be bored and free can make modern parents — especially working parents — feel guilty.

I didn't know what it meant to be Canadian until I saw a photograph that opened my eyes

When the photo of a drowned Syrian boy began circulating, Cape Breton's Clare Currie felt deeply moved to help. She saw the people of her beautiful but underresourced island mobilize in a big way to welcome newcomers to Canada.

Aggressive cougars shut down biking trails in Whistler, B.C., area

More cougar sightings in B.C.'s Sea-to-Sky region have led to trail closures in the resort municipality of Whistler and in the Garibaldi Lake area.

Western Canadian glaciers melting twice as fast as they did a decade ago, research shows

Researchers say some glaciers in Western Canada and the United States lost 12 per cent of their mass from 2021 to 2024, doubling melt rates compared to the previous decade.

Vaccination rates are slipping around the world. Canada isn't immune, says new study

The pandemic dealt a heavy blow to vaccination rates, with an estimated 15 million children missing routine shots between 2020 and 2023, said an author of the study published in The Lancet. The world never fully rebounded to pre-pandemic childhood vaccination levels.