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No animal cruelty charges are being recommended at this time

Rogers says deal would create 3,000 jobs in Western Canada

VANCOUVER — An outbreak of COVID-19 has closed another ward at Vancouver General Hospital, while the health authority says outbreak precautions have been lifted in a separate unit.

SURREY, B.C. — The superintendent of a school district in the centre of British Columbia's COVID-19 storm said it was "eye-opening" to learn that many students aren't showing up to take COVID-19 tests after school-based virus exposures come to light.

'Every female is a future matriarch, a mother of potentially five, six or seven babies over their lifetime.'

Risk of a cougar encounter has increased as the winter cougar season combines with pressures from ever-encroaching development, rising pet ownership and a pandemic push to get outside, says expert

LANGLEY, B.C. — A new COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at a glass manufacturing company in Langley, B.C. Fraser Health says 44 employees of the facility have tested positive for the virus at Vitrum Glass.

A volunteer with Coquitlam Search and Rescue who had his puppy German Shepherd snatched by a cougar this week has had over $11,000 in donations pour in in less than 24 hours; the money will be used to help the man achieve his 'dream of owning, training, and having a search companion'

VANCOUVER — The top doctor at British Columbia's First Nations Health Authority says she is "hopeful" all Indigenous adults in the province, including those who don't live on reserves, will be offered the COVID-19 vaccine in the second phase of the i

VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan says he backs the concept of so-called COVID-19 passports for international travellers, but he's not sold on a similar system for British Columbia residents. The premier said Friday he's not convinced people in B.C.