B.C. News

“This is a tragic homicide that has had a huge impact on our community, including the investigators who have been working tirelessly to advance this case," IHIT stated this week.

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Coastal Health authority says it has changed the name of a long-term care home that was named after George Pearson, a B.C. politician who stoked anti-Japanese sentiment during the Second World War.

SECHELT, B.C. — The federal government is providing $117 million to help solve what it describes as the "heightening water crisis" due to drought on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, where the Sechelt area has been hit especially hard.

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. — Three men from Port Alberni, B.C., have been charged with sexual offences on minors, including trafficking of youth under 18 years old.

A former co-ordinator at the organization that oversaw Florence Girard's home care before she starved to death in October 2018 says "hindsight is 20/20" looking back at a missed opportunity to avert the tragedy.

Court heard this week that Ryan Elder, 30, gave a detailed account to police of how he killed mother Raymonde Elder by punching, stabbing and strangling her

B.C.’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner says it's planning to release the results of an inquiry into police use of force in the province later this year, but it's still crunching numbers in the meantime.

Pierre Poilievre fills Dwight Hall and annunciates his views on how he would lead the country

VANCOUVER — The Local Government Compliance and Enforcement Association of BC released a list of top "interesting, unique and funny calls" received by bylaw departments in the province last year.

Ryan Robert Elder described to police strangling his mother and stabbing her, a B.C. Supreme Court trial heard Tuesday