A charitable society founded by a Vernon lab tech who lost her job along with hundreds of other B.C. health-care workers who refused the COVID-19 vaccine has launched a class-action lawsuit against...

A group representing fired public service union workers has launched a class-action lawsuit against B.C. medical health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he believes "biological males" have no place in sports or change rooms that are labelled female.

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, are in Vancouver today to meet with Invictus Games athletes at a local curling rink, one year ahead of the competition.

With just a little more than a year to go until Whistler and Vancouver host the 2025 Invictus Games, Whistler played host to the Games' royal founder this week.

The mayor of Merritt is calling on Victoria to abolish the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers to help keep hospitals open in smaller B.C. communities like his.

Police in the Cariboo say a home invasion suspect is dead after a “violent encounter” with a homeowner.

The head of Interior Health says the health authority would welcome back unvaccinated staff if the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers is lifted by the province.

Police are investigating after numerous vehicles were hit with paint while people were driving in Vancouver.

A group of Okanagan volunteers dedicating to cleaning up debris left in local forests says they have come across what may be their biggest encampment to date.

Conservative MPs want House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus to resign after ejecting their leader — and not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — during a heated debate Tuesday.

A town north of Edmonton has voted in favour of a bylaw that bans Pride flags and rainbow crosswalks on municipal property.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's day of whistle stops in the Ottawa area ended early today as anti-Liberal protesters gathered outside a brewery before he arrived.

The switch from daylight saving to standard time is fast approaching, and although we gain an hour overnight on Nov. 5, specialists say it can still negatively impact sleep.

Decriminalization of drugs was pitched as a compassionate reform, aimed at transforming how we treat addiction and reducing the stigma associated with drug use.

The Alberta and federal governments are calling on each other to be transparent and accountable ahead of a national meeting Friday on the province’s proposal to quit the Canada Pension Plan.

The past two years have provided plenty of opportunities for British Columbians to focus on environmental issues. Following the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, forest fires, floods and climate change...

There has been a constant thump of helicopter blades over West Kelowna over the past three days as crews respond to the McDougall Creek wildfire.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre confirmed Wednesday that he's against the use of puberty blockers for children.

The federal Conservatives have asked the conflict of interest and ethics commissioner to probe Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's vacation in Jamaica and how his staff handled the detail that he stayed...

As British Columbia's beleaguered healthcare system continues to face critical staffing shortages, a former Kelowna General Hospital nurse forced off the job by the COVID-19 vaccine mandate wants...

The City of West Kelowna is expressing heartfelt gratitude for the army of firefighters, ESS volunteers, RCMP and others fighting the McDougall Creek Wildfire, the largest blaze in the history of...

Kansas is banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports from kindergarten through college, the first of several possible new laws restricting the rights of transgender people pushed...

West Kelowna RCMP are dealing with two teenagers responsible for setting a small fire in the Glenrosa neighbourhood.

A new poll suggests support for Pierre Poilievre is growing, and most Canadians are optimistic about their household finances.

UPDATE 11:50 p.m.

Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre is spending the day in the Okanagan on Wednesday.

In walking back a main portion of B.C.'s drug decriminalization less than halfway through the three-year pilot project, B.C. premier David Eby acknowledged Friday that limits on public drug use...

British Columbia Premier David Eby says it's unfair that Atlantic Canada is being targeted for federal relief on heating bills that won't apply to B.C., after Ottawa announced a three-year pause on...

Vancouver locals have organized a counter blockade to prevent an anti-vaccine mandate convoy from entering the downtown core and blocking access to hospitals.

Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, performed the ceremonial puck drop at the Vancouver Canucks game on Monday night, as part of the lead up to the 2025 Invictus Games.

A Kamloops doctor who was fired by Interior Health after refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has failed in her bid to return to work at Royal Inland Hospital.

While hundreds of people packed into Stuart Park for Kelowna's weekly protest against COVID-19 measures, and the din of vehicle horns rang out across the downtown core, one woman held her own...

The Kelowna LGBTQ community is planning a rally on Oct. 15 in support of trans rights.

With five months to go before British Columbians cast their ballots in the provincial election, our collective concerns remain clear. Housing, poverty and homelessness is still the most important...

Should a company that administers provincial government grants also be offering and soliciting grant application services to grant applicants?

Canada's Heritage Minister redoubled her calls for Meta to end its ban on Canadian news content on Facebook and Instagram on Saturday as thousands of Canadians continued their rush to escape wildfi...

While organizers of Saturday's anti-SOGI protest in Kelowna's Stuart Park billed the event as a “family celebration,” organizer David Lindsay did not mince his words when he took to the microphone...

Almost two in three Canadians have a negative impression of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and half want him to resign before the next election, a new survey suggests.

Tyson George Billings of High Prairie, Alta., will remain in an Ottawa jail while waiting to answer to charges concerning his role in the three-week protest that debilitated the core of the national...

UPDATE 1:45 a.m. Central Okanagan Emergency Operations has placed properties in the Still Pond area under evacuation order due to the North Clifton wildfire.

More is being learned about the out-of-town firefighter who became a Canadian citizen on the front lines of West Kelowna’s McDougall Creek wildfire.

After five months of fighting wildfires and battling smoke that choked B.C. residents throughout the spring and summer the BC Wildfire Service is on the verge of declaring the end of one of its...

A planned protest could cause disruptions on three major highway routes in B.C.

The City of Kelowna is proposing radical changes to its short-term rental bylaw.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made a stop in Kelowna Friday on his way to Penticton for a scheduled public event Saturday morning.

“Completely false.” “Laughably wrong." "Irresponsible and misleading."

Call it the Gaga effect. West Kelowna designer Nicole Loewen is scrambling to keep up with surging demand after Lady Gaga was spotted with one of her recycled leather bags.

Alberta’s United Conservative Party government says it's sticking to its campaign promise to extend the fuel tax relief program until the end of the year.

A right-wing news commentator is to have a conversation with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in January when he's scheduled to speak in Calgary.

The Freedom Convoy was back on the streets Saturday rallying together in protest against vaccine mandates and the Trudeau-led government.

Organizers of the Kamloopa Powwow have moved the popular annual event from August to June in an effort to avoid extreme heat and smoke.

One month into the B.C.'s respiratory illness vaccination campaign, COVID rates in the province appear to be decreasing.

Stuart Park was filled with rainbow flags and hundreds of people Sunday, who were out to support the transgender community in the wake of last month's anti-SOGI protests.

It was a full house of support inside and outside the Penticton Art Gallery on Saturday morning for Drag Story Time.

Several out-of-town firetrucks and firefighting crews have made their way to the Kelowna area to battle a significant wildfire that has already destroyed dozens of homes, however more resources are...

A photographer captured a stunning image of the northern lights as a wildfire burned near her home in McBride.

UPDATE 11:23 a.m. A judge has ruled it was unreasonable for the Liberal government to use the Emergencies Act to quell "Freedom Convoy" protests in the national capital and at key border points two...

UPDATE: 10:11 p.m. Firefighters from communities across the province have been arriving in Kelowna to help defend properties from wildfires burning in the area.

UPDATE: 12:55 p.m. Austin Spencer says he and his company First Tracks Contracting helped Santa take to the water Saturday afternoon for a few laps on the wakeboard.

City of Kelowna crews tear down homeless shelter after a fire breaks out near a property at 2755 McCurdy Road Tuesday.

British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix says an announcement is coming Thursday on new rules for the province's health-care facilities, include masking.

UPDATE 3:05 p.m. The provincial government says its order banning people from staying in temporary accommodations for non-essential purposes is in place as of today until Sept. 4.

The BC United Party is bleeding support to the surging BC Conservatives, according to a poll released Thursday.

Conservative MPs want House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus to resign after ejecting their leader — and not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — during a heated debate Tuesday.

When a man flicked a cigarette butt onto a grassy median on Friday while parked next to Victoria Police Chief Del Manak in front of the Crystal Pool, a few blocks from the police station, Manak...

Grizzly bear spotted on the slopes at Big White Ski Resort Wednesday afternoon.

The Saskatchewan government says its natural gas utility is to stop collecting the carbon levy as of Monday from residential customers.

Significant rainfall is coming down in Kamloops late Monday afternoon — a welcome downpour after weeks of heat and smoke from nearby wildfires.

There has been a constant thump of helicopter blades over West Kelowna over the past three days as crews respond to the McDougall Creek wildfire.

The controversial ParentsVoice BC slate of school trustee candidates have been shut out in the Central Okanagan.

The mayor of Sicamous says there won't be any backtracking on a bylaw banning open drug use in district parks.

UPDATE: 10:11 p.m. Firefighters from communities across the province have been arriving in Kelowna to help defend properties from wildfires burning in the area.

A peaceful protest in support of trans rights will be held in front of Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Frank Caputo’s office on Monday.

The Conservative Party of B.C. has dropped a Denman Island doctor, whose licence was suspended for allegedly signing falsified vaccine and mask exemption forms, as a candidate in Ladysmith-Oceanside.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got an earful this week from three right-wing European politicians at the EU Parliament.

A bill recriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs was passed by the Oregon Legislature on Friday, undoing a key part of the state’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law as...

A letter from Opposition Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to British Columbia Premier David Eby, asking him to help halt a federal carbon tax increase, has been dismissed by Eby as a "baloney...

An interprovincial wine war is fermenting after Alberta's liquor wholesaler told vintners in British Columbia that it won't stock their products in retail stores unless they stop shipping it directly...

A new poll is showing the BC Conservatives ahead of the BC NDP for the first time.

A striking video from a Kelowna resident shows just how close the fire was to his home in Wilden.

Horns blared along the Trans-Canada Highway west of Calgary on Monday as a protest against the hike in the federal carbon price slowed traffic to a crawl.

UPDATE 11 p.m. Central Okanagan Emergency Operations has also dropped a number of evacuation orders in Lake Country and replaced them in alerts.

The mother of two B.C. children who were the subjects of an Amber Alert for ten days has been charged, after the children were found safe.

Vancouver police say 100 officers were sent to a restaurant where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was dining last night, after it was surrounded by protesters chanting for a ceasefire in the Israel-H...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the province will require parental consent for students 15 and under who want to change their names or pronouns at school.

Residents in the Shannon Lake area of West Kelowna want the firefighters who are flying overhead to know they appreciate their hard work.

An Ottawa judge says she will decide on Tuesday whether to grant bail to Ottawa protest convoy organizer Tamara Lich.

Editors note: the man accused of making the derogatory comments detailed in this story is denying the allegations. A full story on that is here.

While other provinces are getting rid of vaccine mandates, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said the BC Vaccine Card will remain in place for the time being.

Six Okanagan chambers of commerce want to know why the provincial government is continuing with COVID-19 mandates, penning a letter outlining the negative effects they are having on business and...

A fired Vernon lab tech and union chief steward who lost her job under B.C.'s vaccine mandate says Interior Health is putting a rosy spin on chronic staffing issues at Vernon Jubilee Hospital.

The Penticton Elks have spent weeks hosting firefighters from Mexico for dinners, and now they have said a fond goodbye.

Elon Musk's X said it's funding legal bills for a Canadian doctor previously chastised by regulators for her tweets about COVID-19.

UPDATE: 5:22 p.m. The evacuation alert for Armstrong has been rescinded.