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Vancouver police say fatal daylight shooting in downtown hotel parkade was targeted
VANCOUVER – A man has been shot and killed in what Vancouver police say was…
Climate change cited as reason to deny injunction extension over logging in B.C.
NANAIMO, B.C. – Public concerns over climate change should play a large part in deciding…
B.C. reports 661 new COVID-19 cases, seven additional deaths
VICTORIA – British Columbia officials reported 661 new cases of COVID-19 and seven more deaths…
Hiker reported missing in Manning Park found dead: Vancouver police
VANCOUVER – Police say the body of a Vancouver man was found on Wednesday after…
Homicide investigators join search for missing woman not seen in nearly three weeks
LANGLEY, B.C. – A team of homicide investigators in British Columbia has joined the RCMP…
Pandemic recovery for Indigenous tourism will be slow, says report
VANCOUVER – The Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada is making a bleak prediction about its…
B.C. offers incentives like child care to recruit and retain health-care workers
VICTORIA – The British Columbia government is offering nurses and other health-care professionals incentives like…
B.C. reports 677 new cases of COVID-19, active cases increase to 6,165
VICTORIA – British Columbia has reported 677 new cases of COVID-19 and one more death.…
B.C. not effectively overseeing safety of dams: auditor general
VICTORIA – The British Columbia government has not effectively overseen the safety of the 1,900…
Teal Cedar Products asks B.C. court for one-year injunction extension at Fairy Creek
NANAIMO, B.C. – A British Columbia forestry company appeared in court Tuesday to apply for…
British Columbia to end state of emergency caused by wildfires on Tuesday night
VICTORIA – The B.C. government is ending a provincial state of emergency because of wildfires…
British Columbia introducing COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all health-care workers
VANCOUVER – All health-care workers and volunteers will soon have to be vaccinated against COVID-19…
B.C. COVID-19 vaccine card could help loosen some pandemic restrictions: Henry
VANCOUVER – British Columbia’s top doctor says she hopes the COVID-19 vaccine card system that…
B.C. drops budget deficit forecast, but points to uneven, uncertain pandemic recovery
VICTORIA – The health and economic risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic cast uncertainty on…
B.C. police watchdog called after armed man fatally shot on Vancouver Island
VICTORIA – Police on Vancouver Island say British Columbia’s police watchdog has been called to…
RCMP make 27 more arrests at B.C. old-growth logging blockades
PORT RENFREW, B.C. – RCMP enforcement of a B.C. Supreme Court injunction against blockades set…
B.C. groups concerned over lack of compromise in COVID-19 vaccine card plan
VANCOUVER – A group of British Columbia community organizations wants changes to the province’s COVID-19…
Mountie escapes injury after being shot at in Surrey, B.C.
SURREY, B.C. – The RCMP say one of their officers is shaken, but not physically…
B.C. health officials report 820 COVID-19 cases and another nine deaths
VICTORIA – British Columbia health officials are reporting 820 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the active…
Campfire allowed across all but southern Vancouver Island as wildfire conditions ease
VANCOUVER – As of noon Friday, campfires are once again allowed across most of British…
Afghanistan’s first female Olympian urges Canada to speed asylum process for refugees
VANCOUVER – Shortly after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, Friba Rezayee’s phone started lighting up…
Former B.C. lottery director says he’s ‘whistleblower’ on money laundering at casinos
VANCOUVER – A former director of the British Columbia Lottery Corporation’s anti-money laundering office says…
Coroner’s report says B.C.-born teenage actor died from fentanyl overdose
VANCOUVER – A B.C. coroner’s report says teenage actor Logan Williams, who played the young…
B.C. to review death of 70-year-old woman at Kamloops hospital
VANCOUVER – British Columbia’s health minister says the government will review the death of a…