The B.C. government has made a series of announcements aimed at helping the province's ailing forest industry as it suffers the fallout of recent jobs cuts and faces the possibility of more to come as Donald Trump takes office.

The new Fort St. James hospital serves a region that is more than one-third Indigenous, and the building  — which replaces a series of trailers built in the 1970s — reflects that.

The Tabor Mountain ski hill near Prince George hasn't reopened since a fire burned the lodge in 2018. Now, the province is seeking an expression of interest for someone to take over the ski area, which once hosted a national competition and future Olympians.

The new B.C. government remains committed to its hydrogen strategy, which describes the alternative fuel as an essential part of its plan to reach 2050 emissions targets.

An early-morning blaze forced nearly 100 residents of an apartment block on Sherbrooke Avenue out of their homes on Christmas Day, according to the City of Prince Rupert. RCMP said Friday that an investigation determined that the fire was deliberately set.

Atmospheric river events and other storms along the B.C. coast did not translate to drought relief elsewhere in the province.

An Indigenous leader in northern B.C. is praising the installation of new cell towers along a notorious stretch of Highway 16 in northern B.C., also known as the Highway of Tears.

An Indigenous family in Prince Rupert, B.C., is mourning the death of a beloved grandmother and family fixture. Juanita Hill, 71, died after she fell in the hotel room she was staying in after a Christmas Day fire forced her and her family from their apartment.

Police in northern B.C. say they're investigating a suspicious death after a man was found dead outside the small community of Mackenzie, about 180 kilometres north of Prince George.

An early-morning fire forced nearly 100 residents of an apartment block in Prince Rupert, B.C. out of their homes on Christmas Day, according to the city.

Environment Canada issued wind warnings across B.C.'s southern coast Monday, warning strong winds will begin in the evening.

An Indigenous language teacher in northern British Columbia has translated classic holiday tunes into Dakelh, in an effort to help revitalize a language that is estimated to only have 1,039 speakers remaining.

Host to one of only three full-length indoor ovals in Canada, Fort St. John now plans to harness that facility to launch a college speed skating program — believed to be the first in the country.

The B.C. government added seven coastal ferry routes to the program that finances the travel of Indigenous, rural and remote patients to receive health care outside their communities.

A search is ongoing for a person believed to have been caught in a landslide that hit their home and closed B.C.'s Sea to Sky Highway over the weekend. RCMP say emergency crews recovered a body of one of the two residents of the home on Sunday.

Multiple programs supporting immigrant and refugee settlement in British Columbia are losing federal funding, as the Canadian government plans to decrease the number of newcomers allowed into the country.

The B.C. government has created a $1.4 million fund aimed at attracting new veterinarians to northern and rural B.C.

Police in Peterborough, Ont., say advances in DNA technology have led to a breakthrough in a cold case that began decades ago with the grisly discovery of a human skull in a river and that the victim had ties to Ottawa and B.C.

International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 is seeking to quash the federal decision ordering a resumption of port operations after a lockout by employers. B.C. port facilities shutdown last month as employers locked out supervisors in response to an overtime ban by union members

Fifteen charges under the federal Fisheries Act have been laid against Imperial Metals Corp. more than a decade after a tailings pond collapsed at the Mount Polley mine, spilling more than 20 million cubic metres of wastewater into B.C. Interior waterways.

Four people were arrested after a vehicle on fire led police to a cache of guns and drugs in Prince George, B.C.

The majority of projects are in the Interior and north and will add about eight per cent to power supply capacity.