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Carney lays out pipeline conditions before talks with Eby on B.C.’s priorities
VANCOUVER — Prime Minister Mark Carney and British Columbia Premier David Eby have agreed to…
Child injured in fall from second-storey window in Maple Ridge, B.C.
MAPLE RIDGE — A four-year-old is in hospital after falling from a second-storey window in…
B.C. Premier Eby says Canada won’t work if Ottawa favours separatist premiers
VICTORIA — Canada cannot work if “separatist premiers” get all of the attention of the…
Mission, B.C., man injured after confronting bear on his back porch
MISSION, B.C. — British Columbia’s Environment Ministry says conservation officers are investigating after a man…
Man charged after vehicle rampage in Vancouver injures scooter rider
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — A man has been charged in a vehicle ramming in…
Man suspected of impaired driving held when vehicle crashes through B.C. restaurant
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NANAIMO — A man has been detained by police after the vehicle he was driving…
Union ‘disappointed’ as feds fund outside staff to guard immigration holding centres
OTTAWA — The union representing Canada Border Services Agency workers says it’s disappointed by the…
Man charged in three B.C. extortion attacks in Surrey, Abbotsford
SURREY, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — A man arrested in December in Abbotsford, B.C., has been…
Ottawa proposes $164M in whale protection funding for waters off B.C. coast
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Ottawa says it has proposed spending about $164 million to…
Alberta’s timing targets for West Coast pipeline ‘best-case scenario’: CIBC analysts
CALGARY — The targeted timeline the Alberta government set out for construction to begin on…
Metro Vancouver transit workers seek strike vote after talks with employer break down
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — The union representing transit workers in Metro Vancouver is preparing…
Woman presumed drowned after vehicle plunges into river in Kamloops, B.C.
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KAMLOOPS — A woman is presumed drowned in the British Columbia Interior after the vehicle…
Fire outside Vancouver strip club being investigated as possible arson: police
VANCOUVER — Police are investigating a fire on a boat out front of a Vancouver…
‘Lion’ of journalism loses its voice as Vancouver’s Langara College program faces end
VANCOUVER — Oksana Shtohryn, a former lawyer in Ukraine, was attracted to the two-year journalism…
Canadian hantavirus case confirmed by national laboratory test
Laboratory testing has confirmed the presumptive positive case of the Andes strain of hantavirus reported…
Man sentenced to 4 years after shooting and killing friend in bulletproof vest ‘game’
SOOKE — A man who shot and killed his friend while the victim was wearing…
Experts call for evenly applied forensic nursing services across B.C.
A researcher on intimate partner violence is calling for British Columbia to increase funding for…
Canadian isolating in B.C. tests “presumptive positive” for hantavirus
British Columbia’s provincial health officer says one of the four Canadians isolating in the province…
‘It’s insane’: Summer gas prices could hit record highs, upending budgets and travel
MONTREAL — Since gas prices started climbing in March, Sarah Bradley has found herself bargain…
B.C. allowed logging in caribou habitat despite its own ministry’s recommendation
VICTORIA — Mike James doesn’t know yet whether his first grandchild will be a boy…
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British Columbia’s Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship recommended that logging be prevented in…
Crown urges new trial in B.C. sex assault case, tossed over delays in 2025
VANCOUVER — The B.C. Court of Appeal has reserved judgment in a sexual assault case…
Man accused of kidnapping B.C. girl, 7, was already wanted for armed assault
CHILLIWACK — The man accused in the attempted abduction of a seven-year-old girl at a…
Eby says Ottawa is rewarding Alberta’s ‘bad behaviour’ with pipeline agreement
VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier David Eby says the federal government is rewarding Alberta for…