Brian Dance had read newscasts​ about forest fires for decades, but never dealt with a fire encroaching on his own home.

One woman suffered life-threatening injuries after she was hit by tree during a severe rain and wind storm that whipped through B.C.’s South Coast on Saturday.

Hydro crews continue working to reconnect tens of thousands of customers who lost power as a windstorm swept across southwestern British Columbia.

Something unusual is happening off the coast of British Columbia. Fish species normally found in the warm waters of the tropics are finding their way north — and a blob is being blamed... scientists have been tracking a large mass of water in the Pacific Ocean that is 1,000 kilometres long and at least 2 C warmer than usual. The blob now stretches from Mexico to Alaska and scientists say heat is being trapped within it, making it feel like home for fish used to warmer climes.

Nearly 50 orcas belonging to the J and L pods were captured on video travelling through B.C.'s Active Pass near Galiano Island on Sunday.

North Shore Rescue will decide next week if a team can descend a 60-metre canyon on the Seymour River and rescue 262 coho that are stranded in a pool directly beneath a devastating rock slide that has prevented them from traveling upstream.

In some areas of B.C.’s Lower Mainland and Alberta, crops are shooting up faster than they can be consumed, while in others, plants are wilting

The timing of Paper Excellence’s permanent closure two weeks ago of its Howe Sound newsprint mill, which put 169 workers off the job, was expedited by B.C.’s drought. But the closure came as no surprise to industry observers. Newsprint demand, following readers’ shift to digital applications on laptops, tablets and phones, has plummeted globally.

Fierce winds that blew through the Harrison Lake area overnight have caused a wildfire there to explode to six times its previous size.

Record low river levels and warm water temperatures could have a devastating effect on millions of sockeye salmon headed for the Fraser River to spawn, according to a UBC biologist. If this summer’s unusual weather conditions continue, few salmon will brave the stifling temperatures of the river, and many of those that do will die trying, Tony Farrell said.

Here at the confluence of the Okanogan and Columbia rivers, tens of thousands of sockeye and chinook salmon stage themselves every summer in an underwater base camp, waiting to make a final push to higher elevations in Canada and their cold-stream destiny: spawning.

Spirit Bear: The wildest place in America is home to the unlikeliest of creatures: a white black bear.

The baiting and killing of Cecil triggered outrage but the same illegal method used on a B.C. grizzly bear was widely ignored

This British Columbia Day weekend, Globe and Mail photographer John Lehmann and Western arts correspondent Marsha Lederman have collaborated with Ballet BC to interpret some of the news stories that made headlines in the province during the past 12 months.

For 40 minutes each week, kids will be introduced to simple parts of the language through songs and activities.

"There are many things that have happened in the province of British Columbia people are not aware of."

Canadian and U.S. scientists are watching a potentially catastrophic collapse of the sockeye salmon run on the Columbia River system this year.

When the Crown Colony of Vancouver Island united with the mainland in 1866, it took two more years of heated debate to decide on the colonial capital. Both New Westminster and Victoria were in the running. Victoria supporters used every sort of influence they could muster to ensure Victoria’s victory, including sabotaging the efforts of Nanaimo MLA, Captain William Hales Franklyn.

The Blueberry River First Nations’ application is part of a much broader lawsuit in which the band alleges its treaty rights have been violated in a region that will be home to the province’s controversial Site C hydroelectric dam

B.C. is only in the first year of a drought. But already signs of heat stress to some of the trees are unmistakable.