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Gabriola Island. Photo Shutterstock Police on Gabriola Island, off the east coast of Vancouver Island, are investigating the discovery of a human foot.

Photo Shutterstock In B.C. 43 per cent of households spend over 30 per cent of their income on rent and 21 spend over half of their income on rent, according to data from the 2018 Canadian Rental Housing Index.

Photo TransLink The Seymour Street entrance to Granville Station will be closed for up to two years starting May 26 as TransLink works on replacing six ageing escalators.

Premier John Horgan speaks during an announcement at Quadra Elementary School in Victoria on Tuesday, May 8, 2018. The B.C. government says it will invest $5 million to build and renovate playgrounds at schools.

Metro Vancouver’s once-mighty luxury home market certainly seems to have fallen, according to new global prime real estate rankings, published May 8.

Photo Dan Toulgoet The vast majority of British Columbians support measures to curb foreign and/or speculative investment in B.C. real estate, according to a poll released May 7. The Mustel Group survey of 400 B.C.

Photo Pexels Emergency management officials will be testing the Alert Ready system in B.C. on cellphones and wireless devices for the first time on Wednesday.

File photo by Adrian Lam/Times Colonist The RCMP say a male has died after shots were fired during an attempted arrest by police at a ferry terminal in Nanaimo, B.C.

A 25-year-old Richmond driver had his 2016 Lamborghini impounded for seven days after being caught driving without a licence by West Vancouver police.

Photo courtesy of Vancouver Park Board The Vancouver Park Board will continue to reserve a two-hour weight room time slot at the Britannia Community Centre for the trans, gender diverse and two-spirit community (TGD2S).