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Vancouver council will hike empty homes tax to 5 per cent of assessed value in 2023
Vancouver is raising the empty homes tax that is designed to ease vacancy rates in…
RCMP homicide probe follows apparent shooting near Maple Ridge in Metro Vancouver
MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. – Mounties in Metro Vancouver say homicide investigators have been called after…
Special legislature committee recommends B.C. move to a provincial police force
VICTORIA – A committee appointed to reform British Columbia’s Police Act recommends moving to a…
West Fraser Q1 profit surges 64% despite significant winter transportation woes
VANCOUVER – West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. says its net profit soared 64 per cent…
B.C. announces $19 million in funding to Forests Ministry to fight climate change
VANCOUVER – Both sides on the issue of old-growth logging in British Columbia are so…
Police-involved shooting in Vancouver leaves one man dead, officer injured: VPD
VANCOUVER – A man has been fatally shot in a confrontation with Vancouver police and…
Cleanup begins after demolition of burned Winters Hotel in Vancouver, city says
VANCOUVER – The City of Vancouver says the ruins of a low-income hotel destroyed by…
B.C. raises forest revenue sharing amounts for First Nations in reconciliation move
VICTORIA – First Nations in British Columbia will receive a $63 million increase in forestry…
Police in Vancouver seek suspects in masked invasion of downtown Gucci store
VANCOUVER – Police in Vancouver have released months-old footage of a take-over-style robbery involving bear…
Census shows apartment growth, but supply remains the main issue in B.C.: experts
VANCOUVER – Demand for housing in British Columbia still far outstrips supply, experts say, even…
Teck Resources reports record first-quarter profit; Chile copper mine nearly finished
Teck Resources Ltd. posted another record quarterly profit Wednesday, putting the company in strong financial…
B.C. district council for Directors Guild of Canada issues strike notice
VANCOUVER – The British Columbia district council for the Directors Guild of Canada says it…
Singer-songwriter remembered as selfless, dies at age 73 in B.C. hospital
VANCOUVER – Singer-songwriter Susan Jacks, who lit up the airwaves with her band’s 1969 smash…
Canada Post temporarily resumes mail delivery in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
VANCOUVER – Canada Post has temporarily resumed delivery to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, more than a…
Lack of fairness prompts Federal Court to set aside B.C. fish farm phaseout
VANCOUVER – A Federal Court judge has set aside a Department of Fisheries order that…
Fraud risk management at B.C.’s $16-billion Site C dam project can improved: auditor
VICTORIA – British Columbia’s auditor general says Crown-owned BC Hydro can improve its management of…
Second B.C. farm positive for avian flu as virus found in backyard flock in Kelowna
KELOWNA, B.C. – A small backyard poultry flock in Kelowna, B.C., has tested positive for…
Court says men not guilty in deaths of ‘tragically innocent’ B.C. couple
VANCOUVER – Two men have been found not guilty for the murders of a Cranbrook,…
Horgan apologizes for profanity in legislature during tense question period
VICTORIA – British Columbia Premier John Horgan says he apologizes for “intemperate comments” he made…
Chief of B.C. First Nation will look over police watchdog’s report on fatal shooting
SURREY, B.C. – An Indigenous civilian monitor has been appointed to look over a report…
B.C. First Nation has proposed $135M settlement after 160-year battle with Canada
VANCOUVER – A British Columbia First Nation has reached a proposed $135-million settlement with the…
Politicians, media return to hallway habits at B.C. legislature after COVID-19 rules
VICTORIA – Politicians and members of the media met each other face-to-face for the first…
B.C. man says old-growth protests escalating after brief hospitalization
NANAIMO, B.C. – A British Columbia man says he was briefly hospitalized on the 24th…
Byelection a battle over past and future for BC Liberal leader Kevin Falcon, experts
VICTORIA – A byelection that could put new British Columbia Liberal leader Kevin Falcon back…