British Columbia

COVID-19 outbreak at Prince Rupert care home where 16 died earlier this year

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. - Just weeks after a deadly COVID-19 outbreak ended at a northwestern British Columbia care home, health officials report a new outbreak at the same facility. Northern Health says ...

Apr 05, 2021

Record-setting number of one-day COVID-19 cases as B.C. officials warn against travel

VICTORIA - Health officials are urging British Columbia residents not to travel outside their community as the province set back-to-back records for the number of new COVID-19 cases recorded in a sing...

Apr 03, 2021

North Vancouver residents to hold drive-thru vigil after stabbings at library

VANCOUVER - Residents of North Vancouver are planning a candlelight vigil tonight to honour a young woman who was fatally stabbed at a local library along with six others who were injured there.The dr...

Apr 03, 2021

Calls to search and rescue groups surge in B.C. as COVID-19 pushes people outdoors

VICTORIA - British Columbia's public safety minister is urging backcountry enthusiasts to take safety precautions before heading out after a record number of calls to ground search and rescue groups. ...

Apr 03, 2021

Metro Vancouver home sales hit all-time record in March: real estate board

VANCOUVER - The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says home sales and new listings set all-time records across the region last month. The board reports that residential home sales totaled 5,708 i...

Apr 02, 2021

B.C. applying for stay in court ruling on auto injury claims: Eby

VICTORIA - British Columbia's Attorney General says the province is applying for a partial stay in a B.C. Supreme Court ruling about jurisdiction over motor vehicle injury disputes, pending its appeal...

Apr 02, 2021

B.C. churches to appeal court decision that upheld COVID-19 restrictions

VANCOUVER - An appeal has been filed in a British Columbia Supreme Court decision that upheld public health orders banning indoor religious services in response to the outbreak of COVID-19 in the prov...

Apr 01, 2021

Quebec man accused of fatal B.C. stabbing appears in court

VANCOUVER - The man accused in a stabbing attack that left one woman dead and six other people hurt in North Vancouver appeared in provincial court on Thursday. Twenty-eight-year-old Yannick Bandaogo,...

Apr 01, 2021

Indigenous leader says Vancouver Island hospital project turns fears to healing

NORTH COWICHAN, B.C. - A British Columbia Indigenous leader says a planned 201-bed hospital replacement project will become a place of healing for his people after decades of fear of the current hospi...

Apr 01, 2021

B.C. adds three more Vancouver hotels to housing stock for homeless

VANCOUVER - The B.C. government has purchased three more hotels to help house the homeless in Vancouver. Housing Minister David Eby says in a news release the properties will help the province meet it...

Apr 01, 2021