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Dreams of Chinese fame persist at Vancouver pageant, where stars are born
VANCOUVER – The eight women lining up to take questions included a pediatrician, a legal…
RCMP saw potential wolf-human ‘conflict’ as zoo said no risk: B.C. escape documents
VANCOUVER – Internal RCMP documents show police sawpotential for human-wolf “conflict” after the animals escaped…
Report shows B.C. has honoured pledge to deliver pandemic-postponed surgeries: Dix
VICTORIA – Almost every surgery postponed by multiple waves of COVID-19 in British Columbia has…
Teck to sell closed Quintette mine to Conuma Resources for $120M, plus royalties
VANCOUVER – Teck Resources Limited says it has reached a deal to sell its closed…
B.C. universities to receive $4.3 million for innovation research funding: minister
VANCOUVER – Four British Columbia universities will receive $4.3 million from a government research and…
Yukon wind chill below -50 C, more snow for southern B.C., as frigid system hits
VANCOUVER – Weather alerts blanket most of British Columbia, Yukon and a large portion of…
‘Glaciers can’t get a break’: How climate change is affecting Canada’s icy landscape
VANCOUVER – On a mountain high above the residents of Metro Vancouver, tucked inside a…
Heavy snow on Lower Mainland, bitter cold in northwest, central B.C.: weather alert
VANCOUVER – An arctic outflow is bringing another snowy storm to the Lower Mainland, while…
B.C. government continues the pandemic wage top-up for care home workers
VICTORIA – The British Columbia government is extending its COVID-19 wage top-ups for staff at…
Three men charged with first-degree murder of Abbotsford, B.C., couple: police
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – RCMP say three men have been arrested and charged with two counts…
Drivers warned as temperatures set to plummet from Vancouver to Yukon
SURREY, B.C. – British Columbia is warning drivers to prepare winter survival kits as a…
B.C.’s Coquihalla Highway reopens to four lanes as repairs continue after 2021 floods
HOPE, B.C. – A stretch along a key highway that sustained severe damage from landslides…
Record amount of opium found in Vancouver marine containers: border services
DELTA, B.C. – What started as a probe into some oddities with shipping pallets in…
Ontario and British Columbia headed for a buyer’s market, RBC says
TORONTO – High interest rates will continue to hold back homebuyers into the new year,…
Contraband tobacco inhales 30 to 50 per cent of B.C. market, retailers, industry fear
VICTORIA – At first, Cory Holland thought government anti-smoking measures were working when he noticed…
B.C. disease centre says flu shows signs of decline, with no new deaths of children
VANCOUVER – The B.C. Centre For Disease Control says there are signs influenza is on…
Union critical of Ottawa’s plan to buy back Pacific salmon licences
CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. – The union representing British Columbia fishermen says a plan by the…
Escaped inmate sentenced to life for the ‘cold-blooded’ murder of a B.C. man
VANCOUVER – Friends and relatives of murder victim Martin Payne say they are haunted by…
Arrest prompts Vancouver police to warn about package theft by ‘porch pirates’
Vancouver police say they’ve recovered everything from Nike runners to golf clubs in a months-long…
Personal health information ‘disturbingly’ vulnerable: B.C. privacy commissioner
VICTORIA – Sensitive personal health records of British Columbia residents, from mental health to sexually…
B.C. jury finds escaped inmate guilty of first-degree murder of Vancouver Island man
VANCOUVER – The daughters of a man killed by two inmates who escaped a Vancouver…
Cold, dry weather threatens fish habitat but not power demand: BC Hydro
VANCOUVER – British Columbia’s unusually dry fall weather has resulted in some of the lowest…
B.C. homicide team probes three murders within 24 hours
VANCOUVER – Police in southern B.C. are investigating three separate homicides over a 24-hour period.…
B.C., Vancouver partner to build modular housing in strategy to disperse street camps
VANCOUVER – British Columbia and the City of Vancouver are building 90 modular housing units…