British Columbia

January home sales down 55% from year earlier, 21% from Dec: Vancouver board

VANCOUVER - The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says January home sales were more than halved from the year before and down 21 per cent from December. The board says sales for the month totalle...

Feb 02, 2023

House post returning to First Nation after 138 years, and decades in Harvard storage

VANCOUVER - In the 138 years since an Indigenous house post was chopped down and ordered burned by missionaries, it was sold under duress, damaged and displayed as a historic oddity, donated to a muse...

Feb 02, 2023

Jury makes 12 recommendations following inquest into Vancouver officer's suicide

BURNABY, B.C. - A coroner's jury has made a dozen recommendations for the British Columbia government and Vancouver police, including that all the department's officers receive mandatory yearly psycho...

Feb 01, 2023

B.C.'s new family doctor payment model, aimed at addressing shortage, takes effect

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's health minister says more than 1,000 family doctors have so far signed onto the province's new compensation model that takes effect today as part of a plan to address th...

Feb 01, 2023

Two B.C. Mounties charged with manslaughter, three others face obstruction charge

VICTORIA - British Columbia's prosecution service says two RCMP officers are accused of manslaughter in the death of a suspect in July 2017 in Prince George. The service says three other Mounties from...

Feb 01, 2023

Drug users say B.C. 'fight continues' during decriminalization amid safe supply calls

VANCOUVER - Members of an advocacy group for drug users have gathered to celebrate the start of decriminalization in British Columbia and discuss how they will "fight back" against any efforts to seiz...

Feb 01, 2023

Former Alberta top doctor, Deena Hinshaw, finds temporary public health post in B.C.

VICTORIA - The former chief medical officer of health in Alberta, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, has a new short-term role as the deputy provincial health officer in British Columbia. B.C.'s provincial health off...

Feb 01, 2023

First Nations women overrepresented among B.C. toxic drug deaths: doctor

VICTORIA - The top doctor at British Columbia's First Nations Health Authority says Indigenous people, especially women, are dying from toxic drugs at disproportionately high rates as the overdose cri...

Jan 31, 2023

Greater Vancouver home sales to flatten while prices inch up, forecast says

VANCOUVER - Home sales in Greater Vancouver are predicted to stay in line with last year's slower pace, while prices inch up slightly. The forecasts are contained in the Real Estate Board of Greater V...

Jan 31, 2023

By the numbers for British Columbia's overdose crisis

VICTORIA - British Columbia's chief coroner released overdose figures for 2022, showing 2,272 residents died from toxic drugs last year. Lisa Lapointe says drug toxicity remains the leading cause of u...

Jan 31, 2023