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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…
Ottawa aims to reduce size of salmon fishing industry by buying licences
VANCOUVER – The federal government is offering to buy Pacific salmon commercial fishing licences from…
Cameras at babies’ bedsides in B.C. neonatal intensive care unit comfort parents
VANCOUVER – When Preethi Krishnan would return home from the hospital after visiting her premature…
Police say fatal shooting appears targeted, no threat to public
CHILLIWACK, B.C. – A shooting at a home in Chilliwack, B.C. has left one person…
Sticking with RCMP would save Surrey, B.C., $235 million: report
SURREY, B.C. – City council in Surrey, B.C., has voted to send a plan to…
Defence lawyer in murder trial of escaped B.C. inmate points to lack of blood spatter
VANCOUVER – The defence lawyer in the B.C. Supreme Court murder trial of an escaped…
Rescue group captures wrong-way warbler that should be wintering far south
BURNABY, B.C. – A tiny warbler spotted flying in a Vancouver parking garage is not…
Crown says killer of B.C. man was either a ‘master ninja’ or there were two attackers
VANCOUVER – An escaped inmate accused of the first-degree murder of a Vancouver Island man…
BC Children’s prepared to double-bunk patients during busy respiratory illness season
VANCOUVER – BC Children’s Hospital has approved double-bunking patients in single-occupancy rooms as it tries…
Bank of Canada governor says rate hikes are working but it needs to stay the course
The Bank of Canada expects to see a clear pullback in inflation by the spring,…
ICBC applies to regulator for two-year rate freeze on basic auto insurance
VANCOUVER – Premier David Eby says the provincial auto insurer is applying for a two-year…
Business group offers $100,000 reward over attack on Coastal GasLink site
SURREY, B.C. – The Independent Contractors and Businesses Association of B.C. is offering a $100,000…