B.C. News

VANCOUVER — The B.C. Wildfire Service is launching its new wildfire app, aimed at providing consistent, accurate and timely information about wildfires when they occur.

VICTORIA — British Columbia is unveiling a digital registration system for evacuees as the province prepares for the upcoming wildfire season while coping with physical distancing restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

SQUAMISH, B.C. — One man has died in a single-vehicle crash along a section of British Columbia's Sea-to-Sky Highway just south of Squamish. RCMP say the crash happened midday Monday and involved a black BMW coupe.

VANCOUVER — Nurses already lacking an adequate supply of personal protective equipment have sometimes been given masks with straps that don't tie or gowns that don't fully cover them, the head of the B.C. Nurses' Union says.

VICTORIA — Safe ways to increase social and economic contacts in British Columbia will form the basics of a plan to start relaxing provincial pandemic restrictions that have kept people close to their homes since mid-March, says provincial health off

This will delay when employees temporarily laid-off due to the COVID-19 pandemic are permanently laid off

Vancouver mayor: ‘I too, like everybody else, have concerns about places that are opening too quickly.’

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — Transit users in Metro Vancouver will have to start paying bus fares again starting June 1.

B.C. could follow Saskatchewan’s plan to reopen sector on May 19

VANCOUVER — The British Columbia Wildfire Service has officially released the cause of a 2017 blaze that eventually charred a huge area of trees and bush in the southern Interior and forced thousands to evacuate.