The RCMP say a private instructor has been charged with sexual interference after allegedly abusing two former students in Surrey, B.C. The Special Victims Unit says investigators believe there may be more alleged victims in the community and are encouraging anyone with more information to come forward. The Mounties say the investigation began last July when they received a report of sexual interference involving two victims who were youths when the incidents allegedly took place between 2010 and 2012. The incidents are alleged to have occurred at a private home in the Newton neighbourhood wh

Health officials say a case of corona virus has been identified in B.C. But provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says the first case is not unexpected. She says a man in his 40s returned to the Metro Vancouver area last week from a trip to Wuhan, China and began showing symptoms of the virus a day or two later. Henry says the man had already self-isolated himself so any contact was primarily limited to family members but none of them have shown symptoms and the man is recovering in isolation at home. Health officials say the risk of spread remains low in B.C.

A Canadian teacher who lives in the Chinese city that is the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak says he has no plans to leave.Wayne Duplessis says he and his family are hunkered down in their home just outside of Wuhan's city centre.He, his wife, Emily Tjandra, and their 15-year-old son Wyatt have spent the last two weeks chatting with people online, watching videos, movies, and the news, and listening to music.Some Canadians in Wuhan have called on the federal government to send a flight to get them out, but Duplessis says he doesn't think it's wise to spend hours in the air with people who

A veteran pilot who plunged into a Los Angeles-area hillside, killing Kobe Bryant and eight others, had tried to avoid fog so heavy that it had grounded police choppers, authorities said. But even experienced pilots may have only seconds to act when they are blinded by weather, an expert said as investigators began scouring the wreckage for clues to Sunday morning’s crash. The NBA postponed the Los Angeles Lakers' next game against the Clippers on Tuesday night after the deaths of the retired superstar and the other victims.Bryant’s death at age 41 was mourned around the world in an outpo

Sonia Furstenau, a Green member of the British Columbia legislature known for her fight against a contaminated-soil quarry in her community, is running for the party's leadership. Furstenau, who represents the Cowichan Valley riding on Vancouver Island, promised at a news conference Monday to build on her party's progress and set it up for another election breakthrough. Former leader Andrew Weaver was the lone Green member of the legislature until Furstenau and Adam Olsen joined him following the 2017 election, marking a historic moment for the party. The three-member caucus signed a deal to s

The mayor of Metro Vancouver's second-most populous city says ride-hailing is operating illegally in his municipality and drivers who are caught will be fined. Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum told a news conference Monday that ride-hailing companies require a municipal business licence and his city has not created a licensing regime. The city earlier warned Uber to stop operations although the company said it had all the necessary provincial licences. McCallum says 18 warnings were issued to drivers over the weekend but the grace period is over and any violators will be ticketed and face a fine of

B-C officials say a wolf that had been spotted roaming near the provincial legislature is on its way back to the wilderness. The wolf was first spotted on Saturday in the James Bay area of Victoria and was captured yesterday after police and residents worked to keep it contained until the B-C Conservation Officer Service arrived. The adult male wolf was tranquilized and safely removed. The conservation service says in a tweet that the wolf was determined to be a suitable candidate for release and was being transferred to an undisclosed wilderness location.

The RCMP say a series of four separate sexual assaults in and around Glen Park in Coquitlam, B.C., are linked. The Mounties say in a news release Monday that the first two incidents happened on Dec. 16 and Dec. 19, and two more cases occurred last Wednesday and on Saturday. The release says in each incident, the suspect targeted an adult woman by touching or slapping her and quickly running away. The alleged attacks all happened between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Cpl. Michael McLaughlin of Coquitlam RCMP says the incidents happened so quickly that no one saw the suspect's face, but he's described as a

Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says eight Canadians in Wuhan have asked his government for help. He says Canada knows of 167 citizens in the region of China that's at the epicentre of an outbreak of a new respiratory virus. China has sharply restricted travel in and out of the province of about 60 million people in an effort to keep the illness from spreading. Although the virus is new and scientists are still working on understanding it, most cases seem to be mild. Some of Canada's allies have evacuated diplomatic offices in Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus was