Overnight rain showers have failed to stop the Terrace Mountain blaze in B.C.'s southern Interior. The wildfire covered an estimated 4,400 hectares by Friday morning, and fire crews said it was only 20 per cent contained.

Grocery retailer Loblaw Companies Ltd. said Friday it is buying T&T Supermarket Inc., Canada's largest Asian food retailer, for about $225 million.

Vancouver city council voted Thursday to pass new bylaws that make sweeping changes to how the city will work during the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Approximately 1,200 residents forced to leave their homes because of a wildfire at Terrace Mountain north of Kelowna will be allowed to return home Saturday.

It's still unclear whether the RCMP will adopt new guidelines for the use of Tasers in B.C., following the release of a critical report that recommended sweeping changes in the way police use the weapons.

Police are looking for two armed suspects after a violent home invasion in Richmond, B.C., late Thursday night.

B.C. consumers will soon be paying much more tax on items that were previously exempt from the provincial sales tax, including big-ticket items like real estate, as part of the new harmonized sales tax.

The chair of the Canada Summer Games says the host committee will be on budget and have enough money left over to leave a legacy fund.

The College of Piping in Summerside, P.E.I., has gone with a local talent to be its new director.

The premier of B.C. says he has been assured the RCMP in his province will adopt new provincial guidelines for the use of Tasers, but he can't say when it will happen.

Rancher Debbie Dust couldn't believe her eyes on Tuesday when the pasture holding eight Black Angus heifers and a bull was empty - vacant - the animals had simply disappeared.

The Calgary Stampeders left BC Place quiet as a mausoleum on Friday night, drubbing the Lions all night long in a 48-10 rout.

The fraud division of the Waterloo Regional Police has opened an investigation into an Ontario-based adoption agency that went bankrupt earlier this month.

A recent funding announcement from the Canada New Media Fund shows P.E.I. is dominating the industry, says a provincial group.

Vancouver police say a woman's body was found floating in the Fraser River, near the foot of Granville Street, on Thursday evening.

Via Rail locomotive engineers went on strike Friday after a noon ET deadline passed without a settlement, a move that has shut down most passenger rail service across Canada.

A fight between a pair of teenage siblings early Friday morning in Montreal sent a boy to hospital with stab wounds, with his sister facing a charge.