British Columbia

Report says government policies weigh on declining B.C. housing market

VICTORIA - A real estate market outlook by Vancouver's Central 1 Credit Union says tougher federal and provincial government housing policies are behind a drop in demand for resale housing i...

May 30, 2019

Life expectancy stops increasing in Canada due to opioid overdose deaths: stats

VANCOUVER - Statistics Canada has released data showing life expectancy stopped increasing for the first time in four decades as young men and women died at higher rates, mostly due to opioid-rel...

May 30, 2019

Negotiations continued through the night in effort to avoid B.C. port lockout

VANCOUVER - Talks continued through the night between British Columbia's longshore workers' union and the association representing port employers. A federal mediator imposed a news blackout as the lat...

May 30, 2019

Remote health care tested as Haida Gwaii loses IV chemo treatment next month

QUEEN CHARLOTTE, B.C. - Cancer patients who need intravenous chemotherapy on the British Columbia archipelago of Haida Gwaii will now have to take an eight-hour ferry trip to the n...

May 29, 2019

B.C. Greens introduce bill to ban conversion therapy; seek all-party support

VICTORIA - A proposed new law in British Columbia would ban the controversial practice of attempting to change a person's sexuality. Green Leader Andrew Weaver tabled legislation Monday that woul...

May 29, 2019

B.C. court hears officer ambushed, shot from behind by accused

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - An Alberta man "ambushed" a police officer moments after he got out of his vehicle, shooting him from behind and then standing over his unmoving body and shooting him again, a ...

May 29, 2019

Union says port workers still on the job in B.C., despite lockout notice

VANCOUVER - The president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union says all of his members are on the job, despite a lockout notice issued by the association representing 55 waterf...

May 29, 2019

B.C. man who scaled Everest says climb is not for 'faint of heart'

VANCOUVER - When Chris Dare stood on the roof of the world he had tears behind his goggles. The British Columbia man has climbed mountains on seven continents in less than 10 ...

May 29, 2019

B.C. post-secondary schools at risk of money laundering: minister

VICTORIA - Post-secondary institutions in British Columbia were warned Tuesday to be on the look out for possible student money launderers in the province's ongoing fight against illegal cash. Advance...

May 29, 2019

Fifth grey whale found dead on B.C. coast, DFO studying link with U.S. deaths

HAIDA GWAII, B.C. - A fifth grey whale has been found dead on British Columbia's coast in what one research biologist says could be a trend towards of record-setting deaths even as the ...

May 28, 2019