Local, Regional News

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has declared a mistrial in the case of Kane Carter, who was accused of murdering a gang member and innocent teenager Alfred Wong who was passing by in his parents' vehicle. Read More

Big spending on big projects in recent years like expensive LRT lines and road upgrades is leaving little room for new major projects in Edmonton's near future. Read More

EDMONTON — Premier Danielle Smith is defending recent policy announcements at private party events, saying Albertans are kept in the know and shouldn't be caught off guard by her agenda. Read More

Delta Mayor George Harvie says he’s upset by a last-minute attempt to scrap a resolution before next week’s Union of B.C. Municipalities convention that is designed to fund port police to tackle organized crime on the waterfront. Read More

VICTORIA — This week’s election eve update on provincial finances was shocking even by the devil-may-care fiscal standards of the David Eby government. Read More

Many business leaders feel the province is “closed for business,” according to B.C. Chamber of Commerce CEO Fiona Famulak. Read More

Premier Danielle Smith remains committed to Calgary's Green Line project, a representative from her office said — but only if the future LRT line remains above-ground. Read More

We have a provincial election looming within the next month, so whichever decision British Columbians make will no doubt have a huge impact on the entire province. Unless we do our extensive research on candidates that run for office, we are certainly not going to end up with positive results. Staying home on election night is not the answer. So unless we get out there and vote, we get the provincial politicians we deserve. As the late comic genius George Carlin once said: “If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.” Read More

Re: Metro Vancouver has a rare level of density Read More

Lethbridge police are investigating an early Tuesday morning incident in which a woman was violently attacked while sleeping. Read More

Hundreds of Calgarians paused in silence outside City Hall on Tuesday as a bell tolled 77 times to recognize the number of city firefighters who have given their lives in service to the city. Read More

A Vancouver police officer could face charges in the fatal shooting of a man in the Downtown Eastside two years ago, according to B.C.'s Independent Investigations Office. Read More

Calgary has completed repairs on four out of eight sites along the Bearspaw south feeder main and is now in the final stages of backfilling the pipe and paving the route to bring the road along the sites back into service. Read More

I skipped past pretty cliffside homes painted in shades of pale yellow and robin’s egg blue that looked down on the deep-green Atlantic Ocean. I was almost paralyzed with fear from driving a monstrously large SUV down shrub-lined roads built for Austin Minis. I read sad stories about shipwrecks, wandered into funky boutiques and deeply inhaled the salty sea air. Read More

Expect Jake Maier to be under centre when the Calgary Stampeders return to game action Saturday. Read More

With an eye toward rental rates, the NDP has made another campaign promise — this time to bring 500 Saskatchewan Housing Authority units online within its first year in government and to cap annual rent increases. Read More

A donation hopes to aid Kids Help Phone in identifying and addressing access gaps for youth mental health services in Alberta. Read More

No elected MP is more hostile to Alberta's economy than Yves-Francois Blanchet, the separatist Bloc Quebecois leader. Read More

Displaced for nearly a month, residents of Sandy Bay have been given the green light to return home now that a wildfire which threatened the community is moving further away. Read More

Kyle McIntyre was working at a construction site in Victoria's Chinatown on Saturday when a 4,000-pound load of reinforced concrete and heavy-duty plywood molds for forming concrete fell on him from a height of about 10 or 12 feet. Read More