B.C. News

RICHMOND, B.C. — The union representing almost 6,000 ambulance paramedics and dispatchers in British Columbia is sounding an alarm on staffing levels "reaching critical" in the province.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's minister of health says the province has opened 26 new treatment beds for people with addictions in four communities over the last several months.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's Children's Hospital says it's seen a steady rise in the number of children coming in with respiratory symptoms.

Police in Vancouver say they've arrested a 66-year-old man for uttering threats against a gas station clerk and only later learned the suspect was a convicted murderer out on parole from a life sentence.

She was on a mountain cliff, 5040, about halfway between Port Alberni and Tofino.

VANCOUVER — A boat was destroyed in the waters of the Indian Arm fjord near North Vancouver's Deep Cove on Saturday afternoon after it caught fire, smouldered for over three hours and sank.

The provincial government has estimated that the tariffs and a similar response from Canada would cumulatively cost B.C. $69 billion in lost GDP if the trade war lasts the entire four years of the Trump presidency.

From the Sky Diner to the monastery-like Brother Jon's to one inspired by the Lord of the Rings.

It stood at the corner of Richards and Dunsmuir for more than a century

VANCOUVER — Crews in downtown Vancouver are demolishing a more than century-old heritage building that the city's chief building official says is so badly damaged it is at risk of collapse. The building at 500 Dunsmuir St.