British Columbia - Canada

The B.C. government will build a new Okanagan jail on land owned by the Osoyoos Indian Band near Oliver, CBC News has learned.

The Maple Ridge-Pitt-Meadows School District says grief counsellors will be at local schools on Monday to help students deal with a fatal vehicle crash over the weekend.

Two customers say the Bank of Montreal violated their privacy and trust by allowing sensitive financial information to get into the wrong hands, then failing to address their complaints.

A French citizen will appear in Richmond provincial court Tuesday to face charges of human smuggling.

A backcountry skier is in hospital with serious injuries after being dug out from an avalanche outside Kimberley, B.C.

More than 600 protesters have taken to the streets of Prince Rupert, B.C., to oppose Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta's oilsands to Kitimat, a port on the northern B.C. coast.

A beauty contest for pet rats, "Ratstravaganza," will be held next Sunday in New Westminster, B.C., the CBC's Bob Nixon reports.

Identical twins Jacob and Joshua were photographed together inside a heart-shaped blanket pile when they were four weeks old. That photo, called "wrapped in love," is the CBC photo contest pick of the day for Saturday.

Police in B.C. have arrested an Edmonton suspect in a case where a man allegedly tried to lure a child by claiming he was Santa.

The B.C. Liberals are gearing up for tough political fight in Chilliwack-Hope and announced that Laurie Throness, a veteran federal Conservative staffer, would be running in the riding's byelection.

Vancouver police say two men have been charged after 34 bank robberies in and around the city over a three-month period last year.

Police in Abbotsford are hunting two South Asian men, after a 19-year-old woman was sexually assaulted on Thursday evening.

A young man and a young woman were killed in an early morning head-on crash between a van and a car in Maple Ridge, B.C. Four other youths are in hospital.

Kevin Bieksa tied the game with 34.1 seconds remaining in regulation and Mason Raymond scored the lone goal in the shootout as the Vancouver Canucks rallied for a 3-2 win over the struggling Colorado Avalanche on Saturday.

A lawyer is arguing that former B.C. premier Bill Vander Zalm wrote his 2008 autobiography to slam perceived political opponents, including the man suing him for defamation.