VICTORIA — British Columbia's finance minister says a higher-than-expected budget surplus leaves room for modest family initiatives but he's wary of escalating forest-fire costs and signs of economic downturns in Canada and internationally.
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — A Kamloops, B.C., man who threatened to drive his truck through the front doors of a hospital with a shotgun has been issued a one-year firearms ban.
Vancouver police, meanwhile, issued a release saying they've taken the "unusual steps" of securing public works yards and job sites due to a threat against a City of Vancouver employee
VANCOUVER — British Columbia's Forests Minister says soaring temperatures and paltry rainfall have pushed the province's most heavily populated region to the highest alert level on the drought scale.
BURNS LAKE, B.C. — A worker who escaped a Burns Lake, B.C., sawmill where an explosion killed two people says he didn't initially realize his face, hands and wrist were severely burned.
BURNABY, B.C. — Mounties say a shooting in Burnaby, B.C., has claimed the life of an unidentified man. RCMP say they were called to a residential street in the Vancouver-area suburb after reports of gunfire.