Jonathan Abecassis, a spokesman for Canadian National, said the emergency evacuation train was expected to arrive in Vancouver shortly after 10 p.m.

Yukon may have led Canada's vaccination rates earlier this year, but the swift return of COVID-19 in the territory was inevitable and has prompted a return to tighter restrictions, Premier Sandy Silver says.

Prof. Suzanne Simard says she's overwhelmed by the newfound celebrity status but wants to continue her focus on saving the forests.

British Columbia Premier John Horgan says a biopsy has shown a growth in his throat was cancerous, but his prognosis is good and he expects to make a full recovery.

British Columbia is applying to the federal government to remove criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of illicit drugs in an effort to help more people get care in a health crisis that has claimed 7,700 lives over five years.

British Columbia Premier John Horgan said the discovery of a growth in his throat requires immediate biopsy surgery, but he plans to stay on the job.

The plight of the residents of the British Columbia village of Lytton that was all but destroyed in a wildfire this summer gained political focus on Thursday, October 7, 2021, in the provincial legislature.

Forty per cent of British Columbia's long-term care staff who were surveyed by the province's advocate for seniors said they went into work at least once in the past year feeling sick, a report reveals.

The British Columbia government's inadequate support during an extreme heat wave this summer "compounded risks" for people with disabilities and those who are older, says an independent international human rights group.

A new poll suggests tensions over COVID-19 vaccines in Canada are high as frictions grow between those who are vaccinated against the virus and those who are not.