B.C. News

MAPLE RIDGE, B.C.

SAANICH, B.C. — Investigators from the United States have joined a new team taking a fresh look at the unsolved homicide of Victoria real estate agent Lindsay Buziak and police say there's movement in the 13-year-old case.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — A COVID-19 lockdown has ended in a First Nations community in British Columbia's central interior, but officials say they still plan to limit access for non-residents for at least another month.

Laurie Bayly’s woolly rendition of a mitten-clad Bernie Sanders, which measures 15 centimetres high, has turned into a fund­raising effort that the elementary-school teacher and counsellor never expected.

According to a news release from the provincial government, the new Community and Employer Partnership (CEP) project is intended for immigrants.

Grants were awarded to service providers including 25 in Fraser Health, 11 in Island Health, eight in Vancouver Coastal Health, seven in Interior Health and two in Northern Health.

VANCOUVER — Some transit workers in Metro Vancouver could go on strike early next week. The B-C Government and Service Employees' Union issued a 72-hour strike notice Friday to Protrans BC, operator of the Canada Line rapid transit system.

VANCOUVER — COVID-19 vaccines have been delivered in all long-term care homes in British Columbia, health officials said Friday, while applauding new federal restrictions on international travel that come at a critical time.

VANCOUVER — The president of the British Columbia Lottery Corp.

The number of those hospitalized in B.C. with COVID-19 was less than 300 for the second day in a row after nine weeks above that level