KAMLOOPS

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the horses are of significance to a local indigenous band.

In May, a horrific discovery in British Columbia caught the world’s attention: The unmarked gravesites of hundreds of Indigenous children, buried near the boarding school...

An indigenous group said in May it had found the probable remains of 215 children in unmarked graves.

Lightning strikes following a huge heatwave have triggered more than 170 fires in British Columbia.

Military aircraft are mobilised as fires burn across British Columbia following a record-breaking heatwave.

The province's Coroner's Service said it had reports of two deaths, but had not been able to confirm because the area is still unsafe. Residents of Lytton had to flee with just a few minutes notice.

Since the remains of Indigenous children were found at residential schools, Canadians have been struggling with how to celebrate Canada Day.

The remains of 751 people, mainly indigenous children, have been found in unmarked graves on the site of a former Catholic residential school in Canada. They were discovered on the grounds of the Marieval Indian Residential school in Saskatchewan less than a month after the bodies of 215 children were uncovered on the site of another defunct Catholic school at Kamloops in British Columbia The grim discovery sent renewed shockwaves through a country which is still coming to terms with evidence of

Police are treating the two blazes in the western province of British Columbia as suspicious.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it’s not an isolated incident that over 200 children were found buried at a former Indigenous residential school.

Remains of 215 indigenous children who were forcibly removed from their families have been found at a mass grave by a former school in Canada. The mass grave was found on the site of a former residential school established by the Roman Catholic church in 1890, which was closed in 1969. It formed part of a network of establishments across Canada that were set up to forcibly assimilate native children. According to one estimate, more than 150,000 children were sent to the schools where they were banned from speaking their own languages or following their cultural traditions. Thousands of children went missing from the institutions, some of whom died and some ran away. Abuse was rife at the schools, but families were threatened with jail if they did not surrender their children to them. The treatment of the children remains a scar on Canadian history. In 2015 it was described as a "culture of genocide" by the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The grim discovery was made by a team using ground-penetrating radar at Kamloops, about 220 miles northeast of Vancouver.