B.C. News

'Twas the week before Christmas, when a snowstorm vexed, a District of North Vancouver communications manager appealed for an emergency mass text.

The evacuation orders for the Lhoosk'uz area, Pelican Lake, Townsend Creek and a portion of the Teepee Lake order have been downgraded to alerts. 

The chief of a municipal police force in Metro Vancouver has issued an open letter criticizing British Columbia's drug decriminalization policies as ineffective in the face of the ongoing overdose crisis.

British Columbia is spending $3 million to expand a program that partners health-care workers with policein mobile teams to respond to mental health-related calls.

Uncertainty around policing in Surrey has swirled since October.

The BC Wildfire Service says an "aggressive" fire that exploded in size over the weekend has cut off a highway on the central coast, while more than a dozen new blazes have been sparked since Sunday.

VANCOUVER — Arti and Anton are the newest floppy-eared members of a team of dog detectives trained to sniff out adangerous bacterium in British Columbia hospitals, where it can easily spread among vulnerable patients.

The British Columbia Wildfire Service is paying tribute to the 19-year-old firefighter who died after being struck by a falling tree last week, calling her "the heart of us.

OTTAWA — Canada's record-breaking wildfire season has now seen 100,000 square kilometres of land scorched as blazes continue to burn out of control across the entire country.

The number of wildfires in British Columbia continues to rise amid persistent drought, and federal aid — including military resources — is on the way.